Create a data form definition

As an example we will create the topic "ReadingForm" with these contents:

| *Name*   | *Type* | *Size* | *Values* | *Tooltip message* | *Attributes* |
| Title    | text   | 80     |          | Book or article title | |
| Category | select | 1      | ,Interesting,Remarkable,So-so | How you rate this reading material | |
| Author   | text   | 50     |          | Author's last name | |

Enable the form

If you create a topic, you can always add a form to the topic by choosing "Add form" in the edit screen.

Now we will create an HTML form that does this automatically.

Create an HTML form for easy topic creation

Example HTML form:

<form action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{edit}%/%WEB%/" method="post">
Name of the new topic: %BR%
<input type="text" name="topic" class="foswikiInputField" size="32" />

Title of article or book: %BR%
<input type="text" name="Title" class="foswikiInputField" size="32" />

<input type="submit" class="foswikiSubmit" value="Create topic" />
<input type="hidden" name="onlywikiname" value="on" />
<input type="hidden" name="formtemplate" value="ReadingForm" />
<input type="hidden" name="topicparent" value="%TOPIC%" />
</form>

Create a query search

VarSEARCH has more information on creating searches.

To list all topics that have a form named ReadingForm:

%SEARCH{
type="query"
"TestForm"
nonoise="on"
format="   * [[$web.$topic][$formfield(Title)]]"
}%

To list all topics where the author is named "Auden":

%SEARCH{
type="query"
"TestForm[name='Author'].value='Auden'"
nonoise="on"
format="   * [[$web.$topic][$formfield(Title)]]"
}%