Feature Proposal: Dynamic Text

Motivation

Suppose you now something (e.g. patch) will be there in a week:

Have a look in %TEMPTEXT{temp="upcoming" final="available" until=050505}% patch

Until 050505 you read Have a look in the upcoming patch
Starting on 050505 the final text becomes Have a look in the available patch

This way you can insert dynamic text, and not bother anymore.

Description

Dynamic text that changes to it final at a given timestamp.

-- TonTLam - 03 May 2005

Impact and Available Solutions

Note: Patch is attached as http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/DynamicText/twiki-foo-bar-patch.diff. The patch is against the TWikiAlphaRelease of 15 Feb 2004.

Documentation

If necessary, user documentation of new features introduced by this proposal.

Examples

Example uses of features introduced by proposal.

The %TEMPTEXT{temp="new", until=050518}% patch release %TEMPTEXT{temp="is scheduled for May 18." final="can be found at someURL" until=050518}%

On the first invokation on 050518 %TEMPTEXT{}% is replaced by the final text. This way we prevent endless checking.

Implementation

Any comments on how the feature is implemented or could be improved

Discussion:

No patch attached... --TW

Sounds like a duplication of the functionality of MacrosPlugin.

-- FranzJosefSilli - 04 May 2005

With MacrosPlugin you still need to change in another topic, while this proposal is to change automatically based on a timeout.

-- TonTLam - 04 May 2005

Heh; sounds like fun! A good candidate for a plugin. I can't actually think of an application, but don't let that stop you! It's quite similar in concept to ActionTrackerPlugin. Maybe you could use ActionTrackerPlugin?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 04 May 2005