New Recipe creation form

I've set up a form for creating new recipes, with the topic name NewRecipe.
I've added a link to this form on the Cookbook home page.

The form should be fairly self-explanatory.  You fill in a recipe name and
title, select the parent page which you plan to add the recipe to, and press
Create Recipe.  This puts you into edit mode for a topic with the recipe
name you specified, with the recipe title and various headings
pre-filled-in.  This is generated from a template called
DefaultRecipeTemplate, which I've based on the recipe structure that's been
used so far.

The template can be edited like any other topic, if it needs to be changed.
If we need more than one recipe template, perhaps for different types of
recipe, it would be easy to add a field to the NewRecipe form, to allow the
template to be selected.

The parent topic choice is a semi-experimental feature.  It may be possible
to integrate the selection of a parent into a mechanism to add recipes
automatically to an index page.  For now, selecting a parent is still
useful, since it does set the topic's parent so that the top-right corner of
the recipe page will show the appropriate hierarchy.  Another benefit is
that topics created via the NewRecipes form for which a parent isn't
selected will now be listed on the NoParentSelected page.

Note that all the above uses nothing but standard TWiki & HTML features.
NewRecipe contains an ordinary HTML form; the form's action invokes the
appropriate topic edit URL with a few parameters such as 'topic',
'templatetopic', and 'parent'.  That's more or less all there is to it.

I've continued to work on a better solution for TOCs etc. (in my "spare
time").  I'll write something up about that in the next day or so.  I expect
to put some code up this week, although it won't be a final solution yet.
I'll try to document things well enough to make it possible for others to
get involved, if anyone has the time and inclination.

Anton



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