Bug or feature: variables/macros

[pit47623]

"GeneWeb text present in notes are not pure HTML and may contain variables."
(https://web.archive.org/web/20230926000036/https://geneweb.tuxfamily.org/wiki/macros - https://geneweb.tuxfamily.org down?)

The documentation lists a wide range of variables to be used in "notes" (%t, %f, ...), but most of them seem not to work.

Working:
%s - used in (e.g.): href="%sm=IM;s=my_pic.jpg"
Also working:
%i - resolved to "peter.1.essen" (used in my personnal entry)

not working (cgi-mode!):
href="../%t/video/happy_birthday_pit.mp4
Due to documentation I expected resolving %t to my database name, i.e.: href="../essen/video/happy_birthday_pit.mp4

My workaround:
1.) var_base=essen in essen.gwf
2.) href="../%vbase;/video/happy_birthday_pit.mp4" - works! :)

But what about all that pretty variables listed in the documentation?

Tested in cgi-mode on:
6.08 on win10 (patched, cf. #103)
6.08 on ubuntu-mint
7.01 on raspberrypi
Resolving also tested on 6.08 server-mode on raspberrypi -

Best regards
Pit

[michelmno]

I have same problem if macros used in notes of an individual.
A potential direction to continue investigation: those macros do work if present in a macros.txt accessed as m=SRC as per wiki page https://web.archive.org/web/20230926000036/https://geneweb.tuxfamily.org/wiki/macros#List_of_macros (I tested that successfully with last geneweb/master branch cid b779ee5)

[hgouraud]

I am not at my desk, but I think I remember that all macros are available with m=SRC, but only partially within notes. I will check.

[hgouraud]

I also think I put in the wiki doc a file that will demonstrate all macros if called with m= SRC. See the macros page on tuxfamily.

[hgouraud]

Reading the code, I see that the string_with_macros function handles only s and v macros. I would have to dig deeper to see where the %i trick comes from!!
It might be worth trying to use SrcfileDisolay.macro instead (might require some recoding)!!

[rpo]

I have never fully understood how and when most of those macros works and in which context to use it.