Howto make an admin-button to quickly set Meta Preferences like ALLOWTOPICCHANGE

Hi there!

I just faild on an seemingly simple task. I just wanted to add a link/button to the viewtopicactionbuttons.tmpl or where ever to quickly set/un-set the ALLOWTOPICCHANCE to AdminGroup. Of course, this link should only be visible to members of the AdminGroup.

I really tried, but i don't get the concept how to read/set meta in a template. Can somebody help me with this please?

Kind regards,

-- EnrikGuenter - 29 Nov 2010

Hi Enrik,

Sadly, there's no nice way to do this in Foswiki 1.1 without a plugin.

MichaelDaum's Extensions.SetVariablePlugin should do the job.

This is untested, but reading the documentation, it seems you should do something like this:

<form action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"save"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="Set+ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" value="AdminGroup"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>

-- PaulHarvey - 13 Feb 2012