For a topic TestTopic that has a form field Author, this works (returns 'Author'):

%IF{"'TestTopic'/Author" then="Author" else="no Author"}%

This also works (returns 'Author'):

%IF{"'%TOPIC%'/Author" then="Author" else="no Author"}%

For a topic Test_topic that has a form field Author, this does not work (returns 'no Author'):

%IF{"'Test_topic'/Author" then="Author" else="no Author"}%

This also does not work (returns 'no Author'):

%IF{"'%TOPIC%'/Author" then="Author" else="no Author"}%

-- ArthurClemens - 24 Jan 2009

Crawford has suggested this fix:

"Comment out lines 39, 40 and 41 (next if ...) of lib/Foswiki/Query/OP_ref.pm"

That works. Need to run unit tests to see if nothing breaks.

-- ArthurClemens - 24 Jan 2009

Tests run fine. Closing.

-- ArthurClemens - 24 Jan 2009