From: Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/11/12 21:00, Chad wrote:
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
I find that I cannot put {{CURRENTYEAR}} in the #REDIRECT link, such as: #REDIRECT [[Budget, {{CURRENTYEAR}}]]
Why not? Such links work elsewhere!
This does not work with redirects. They're not parsed in the same way pages normally are (it just looks for #REDIRECT + a link).
-Chad
We could expand parser functions if there are {{ }} there. Seems worth to open a bug.
It's been WONTFIX'd since '05. I guess we can reopen it :)
Thanks! It seems to be a very useful way of having static page names invoke dynamic content.
I'm going to try the template work-around that Jamie Thingelstad posted.
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