how to use "title" in System.DataForms (instead of "name")

definition of DataForms look like this:

Name	Type	Size	Values	Tooltip message	Attributes
TopicSummary?	text	80		add a summary

but if you look into the source, there is an additional 'title' that is not defined:

%META:FIELD{name="SystemDev.TopicSummary" attributes="" *title="SystemDev.TopicSummary"* value=""}%

Is there a way to have a title different to the name?

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could this be done like this:

Name	Type	Size	Values	Tooltip message	Attributes	Title
TopicSummary?	text	80		add a summary		Summary

and it should lead to

%META:FIELD{name="SystemDev.TopicSummary" attributes="" *title="Summary"* value=""}%

and the displayed title of the field with view skin should be 'Summary'

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I wanna use this for:

• rename fields: only rename title to
  1. not break queries and
  2. not loose data when editing existing topics
• field 'names' that are a link to a topic with a wiki name (TopicSummary? ),
  but the field 'name' shall displaying the (probably) different 'title' (e.g. Summary)

-- MatthiasThullner - 24 Jul 2010

One way is to use [[TheField][Arbitrary title? Yes!]], as you've noted.

To truly customise the way forms are displayed, you should consider a custom view (and edit, if necessary) template. The easiest way is to make use of AutoViewTemplatePlugin which will ship with Foswiki 1.1 by default.

In these circumstances I would properly refactor your DataForm? and existing topic set to use a new field name. This might use sed or the GlobalReplacePlugin to rename all occurances of the old field names to the new.

-- PaulHarvey - 02 Aug 2010

Hey folks!

Having the same question since a long time. Using the suggestion of PaulHarvey[<nop>[TheField][Arbitrary title? Yes!]] does not work!

Posted as bug Tasks.Item10025.

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Oops, you're right. What was I smoking that day?

The best way is to use FlexFormPlugin and a custom view template via AutoViewTemplatePlugin

Seems like we are missing the feature to easily have a link title different to the field name.

-- PaulHarvey - 15 Nov 2010