%FORMFIELD{"fieldname"}%
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: | 
|---|---|---|
| "fieldname" | The name of a TWiki form field | required | 
| topic="..." | Topic where form data is located. May be of the form Web.TopicName | Current topic | 
| rev="..." | Get the form field value from the specified topic revision, range "1"to top revision of topic."0"is equivalent to the top revision | The revURL parameter value if present, otherwise the top revision | 
| format="..." | Format string. Supported variables: • $value- form field value• $value(20, -<br />)- value hyphenated every 20 characters using separator -<br />• $value(30, ...)- value shortened to 30 characters• $length- length of value (can be used to test if value is set)• $title- raw field name (includes space and other special characters)• $name- field name (sanitized title)• $attributes- form field attributes• $formtopic- name of form definition topic | "$value" | 
| default="..." | Text shown when no value is defined for the field | "" | 
| alttext="..." | Text shown when field is not found in the form | "" | 
| newline="$br" | Convert newlines in textarea to other delimiters. Variable $brexpands to<br />tag, and$nto a newline. Other text is encoded based onencodeparameter. | no conversion | 
| encode="html" | Encode special characters into HTML entities. If a FORMFIELD is passed into an HTML form field it should be encoded as "html". Additional encodings available:encode="quote",encode="moderate",encode="safe",encode="entity",encode="url"andencode="csv". See ENCODE for details. | ""(no encoding) | 
%FORMFIELD{"ProjectName" topic="Projects.SushiProject" default="(not set)" alttext="ProjectName field not found"}% 
%FORMFIELD{"Title" topic="%INCLUDINGTOPIC%" }% topic="%INCLUDINGTOPIC%" if you have a base topic that includes a report topic, and in the report topic you want to reference a field of the base topic
<input type="text" name="Address" value="%FORMFIELD{ "Address" encode="html" }%" />  
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