At Dan's request, I'm bringing a disagreement he and I have had by
private email to the list for other folks' feedback.
In the most recent version of ZAP, he has provided the new markup
{~Author$:varname}
which retrieves the varname page text variable from Author's Profiles
page. This is a shortcut for
{Profiles/Author$:varname}
and for sites that use ZAP for storing registration data, it's a big
help... especially if you should decide in the future to change the page
group where the registration data is stored: you can change it in one
place (Site/ZAPConfig) without having to update all the markup
site-wide. So I'm a big fan of this markup.
However, he's also provided a further shortcut for retrieving the
current user's data (i.e. {~{AuthId}$:varname} ). His markup is
{~varname}
I feel strongly that this should be
{~$:varname}
instead, so that it's comparable to {*$:varname} and {=$:varname}. I
feel that omitting the $: obscures the meaning of the markup -- all
other page-text-variable markup uses $:, and this is page-text-variable
markup, therefore in my mind it should use $:.
Dan wrote, "Why not post this issue to the list and see if there is any
feedback from others. I prefer the simpler notation, but am willing to
go with any consensus. It's easy enough to customize this of course in
your own wiki--but that skirts the issue of what is best for the
community. So let's see what others say." And so here we are.
I realize this is a pretty trivial thing, but because it's such a new
feature, it hasn't yet been entrenched in anyone's site (even Dan's,
since I assume he's now using ZAPwiki), so there's still time to change
it. Thanks in advance for your feedback. --Ben S.
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