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The place for brainstorming around TWiki and Wiki technology in general. NOTE: For new ideas, please use the new BrainstormingIdea gateway topic. See also ThingsToDo which lists everything that has been proposed to do, but appears unresolved and is not yet assigned to the current release.Results from Codev web retrieved at 17:06 (GMT)
As part of UseUTF8, TWiki will by default expect and use Unicode NFC (Normalisation Form C), like Linux and W3C standards. Any support for conversion of NFD (Normalisation ...
If you have ideas of what plugins you'd like to have installed here at TWikiDotOrg please list them here. currently, the following plugins are installed: NB. A generic ...
Bug: CommaSeperatedWikiWordRendering If a user doesn't put spaces into a comma seperated list of WikiNames only the first one gets made into a link.. In my opinion ...
I've done a bit of analysis of the code changes for TWikiReleaseSpring2001 since last production release. Attached in an Excel document, plus html rendering. In summary ...
Consider that when doing a cut paste from another document, one of the first WikiWord making steps you do is to take out the spaces between the words of a Consecutive ...
You know, how in PowerPoint you go around picking up pictures doing a visual skeleton before adding the text. It would be great to have the same facility in TWiki ...
If TWiki mantained for each topic a table listing all topics that link to the current topic, several gruesome problems would be instantaneously fixed, like RenameTopic ...
Moved content from SingletonWikiWord. PeterThoeny 18 Jun 2001 Incidently I just found that FoxWiki: uses a preceding ? to introduce links to a topic named with ...
function dblclick() { window.scrollTo(0,0) } if (document.layers) { document.captureEvents(ONDBLCLICK); } document.ondblclick dblclick; // TWiki Codev Master Refactor ...
Has anyone implemented a plugin or a piece of code to work with FirewallOne? Either that or any thoughts? I think it requires that a plugin is installed in the webserver ...
Given some perldoc like syntax it might be possible to auto create (with caching) the TextFormattingRules page. This would be useful say in the situations where we ...
Hello all, i've been playing with twiki on our intranet for two weeks now, and it is really awesome. I've never seen a "Intranet for techies" so active ! So here's ...
Scenario: I made it through the complicated install process, now looking at "my" new wiki for the first time, and now I am overwhelmed by the amount of existing content ...
Suggestion for refactoring content: move the 'Translation in Templates' Part in GermanTranslationSettings to s.th. like TranslationViaVariables. Maybe move this ...
As of now, submitting attachments is a two step process: You first take user to "edit" page (with required template contents) and then followed by attach. Non intutive ...
TWiki With http://subversion.tigris.org Subversion is a version control system designed as a replacement for CVS, started by some of the original authors of CVS ...
I am looking for a search facility in attached files (eg. word doc, ppt, xls, PDF,...). Eventually through a plug in/add on. PS. I just got started with Twiki, so ...
06Mar01 I've been doing some preliminary research on improving the functionality of the search in TWiki. As I see it there are two routes we can follow: 1 Use ...
Pure Perl Backend for Search On SingleEntryPointForSystemCalls, KennethPorter wrote: "I don't see why fgrep is needed at all, given that Perl is a superset of ...
OBSOLETE See TestCasesTutorial for the TWiki testing approach Introduction The Wiki:UnitTesting approach ensures that every module has comprehensive unit tests ...
This Interface to Google is very different from other Google interfaces in TWiki, the search results are formatted in XML. The result content can be filtered and combined ...
TWiki As A Bookmark Manager I do quite a bit of Internet based research, and many times I found myself wishing there was a magic button that if I pressed it while ...
Part 1: Profile by time Background Following my assertions about the performance issues behind moving structural metadata and access control out of the topic file ...
Twiki BlosxomWeblog These two programs complement each other very nicely. It would be good to see them brought together. Related Topics: BlosxomWeblog ...
Over the last few months I've been working on the editor applet (see PowerEditPluginDev) and it's made me think laterally. The new editor applet has a display window ...
Refactored from ModPerl see also ShouldHtaccessBeOptimized In StatisticsVariableWillNotStayShared it became clear that ModPerl shouldn't be enabled across all the ...
Afterthought... Maybe I should've called this page Web Base Code Separation MichaelSparks 06 Mar 2001 Twiki upgrades are currently very painful. Generally ...
How about a allowing pagings redirect (directly) to other pages? The page that is redirected to, should then display the page it's redirected from. UseModWiki also ...
TWiki is already using a simple Do What I Mean idea when it tries singular/plural topic names before giving up and marking a topic as non existent (the question mark ...
Question My Wiki is growing rapidly and I am starting to notice descrepancies in the WikiWords people are using. Has anyone out there got a way to show all words ...
Some TWiki variables I suggest to add in .TWikiPreferences A fluo may be usefull to highlight some text : Set FLUO FLUO Set FYELLOW ...
The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser allows you to visually explore data gathered by doing "related:starting.url" queries from google. This works best for relatively popular ...
Recycle bin for ideas from UsabilityIdeas Always be careful to throw away old ideas. This page will document them for the future. Rejected ideas Toss out homegrown ...
CategoryStale With respect to refactoring, I did a lot of thinking about that too, and keep coming back to: "why"? TWiki is an organism grown by it's participants ...
A thought on access permissions and renaming a topic in % nop MAINWEB% If a user topic nop SomeUser topic contained in nop SomeGroup is renamed to ...
This is the test case for NationalCharactersEncodedInSearchResults. Some Russian characters: Русский текст. And this is the link to Results for NationalCharactersEncodedInSearchResultsTest ...
A read only offline Wiki is for people in the field who have a need to browse and search content. (Topic started in OfflineWiki) Pros: Only web browser ...
This topic is probably premature I should do some research on the output capabilities of diff, but I came across this specific example (below) of diff output that ...
I don't know if some of you have seen the HyperPerl ( http://c2.com/cgi/wikibase?HyperPerl ) literate programming pages by WardCunnigham. He has written a perl script ...
Proposal There should be some means of feeding back usage statistics to Plugin authors, so they know whether their plugins are being used or not. Discussion In TWikiDrawPluginDev ...
EZ Usability Upgrade Plan A couple of problem stories by now have been repeated to the point of litany, and it adds up to: TWiki distribution and docs are totally ...
META should be rendered in other templates other than view Quite a few templates do not support META variables. This makes it difficult to have consistent interface ...
Parameterized Links Like the ParameterizedIncludes, URL parameters should be passed to links, without the need to write http nop ://% nop SCRIPTURL%/view/% nop WEB ...
If a page is renamed, the old topic name should redirect users to the new page. Related topics: CoolURIsDontChange TopicMovedMessageTooVisible RenameTopic ...
TWiki Installer For Windows Caveats If you are using CygwinApache on Windows, use the TWikiUnixInstaller. If you are not using that combination then no this does ...
How about combining the features of Wiki with Jabber , the open source Instant Messaging service? Here are some stories: 1 I define a group in the Main web that ...
This topic used to contain several (excellent, IMHO MC) ideas concerning future directions. MartinCleaver refactored it because he felt that without it this topic ...
This is implicated by PluginsRegisteringTheirVariables; it is the problem that two Plugins could decide to use the same variable names breaking the ability for those ...
Web Based Spell Checkers Investigated for the SpellCheckerPluginDev. http://www.spellonline.com/ web based commercial http://www.spellchecker.net/ ...
I've worked out one reason why there are so many people who log requests in the Support web without apparently reading the SupportGuidelines it's because you can ...
# TWiki Formatted Search in Topics Abstract %SEARCH is extended to permit formatting and displaying of each location in a topic which meets the specified search ...
Some musings on Twiki Architecture Currently TWiki uses a sort of procedural or program driven architecture: data is passed as an arguement to a script as in view ...
I am wondering if it is possible to combine tags. For example: term : this is the description for term It would be very useful to be able to highlight the term ...
Experiment to see how far off we are from being able to conduct multi answer surveys... OliverKrueger AntonAylward MarcPilloud ...
The IETF has defined some new Proposed Standards for internationalised domain names (IDNs): RFC:3490, RFC:3491, RFC:3492. The impact on TWiki is roughly as follows ...
similiar in process and technique to WikiCanonicalForm, but with different goals in mind WillNorris 11 Apr 2004 at WikiMania2005, we began a discussion Interchange ...
MikeRovner wrote in TWikiClones: 22 Dec 2000: TWiki (RCS replaced by ClearCase) by MikeRovner for internal use (behind a firewall) as project documentation tool ...
AndreaSterbini had the idea in UseTemplatesEverywhere to split up the template files and move them into the TWiki.TWiki web. The idea here is to introduce special ...
In named includes I noted that after implementing named sections, that: " The name for include should be allowed (at some point) to extract sections denoted ...
When editing, is it possible to (optionally) launch instead an HTML editor of the user's choice, so we can have available some higher powered HMTL based editing? ...
TWiki should not use JavaScript. While I appreciate the advantages of scripting, it's a major security issue. It would be easy to log in as TWikiGuest and insert malicious ...
Editing in a browser's textarea is no fun. How about downloading the text to your favorite local editor and uploading it back up again? Besides being more convenient ...
Easy upgrade of running TWikis As time goes, people run more and more TWiki systems on many servers with more and more customizations And thus upgrading ...
I got an e mail from JamesYoungman while TWiki.org was out of order. It is a nice little script to find referenced but not defined WikiWords. I am posting it here ...
.code { background color:; margin:0px 2.5em; padding:0px 1em; } Abstract A proxy is a piece of middleware that sits between the browser (or another program pretending ...
Anyone tried to view TWiki on a PDA? Here's what I've done... Also see ReadWriteOfflineWiki, ReadOnlyOfflineWiki, OfflineWiki. I happen to use a Handspring Visor ...
At present, there are two scripts that are normally not authenticated, but can work in "authenticated" mode; these are ViewCgiScript and RdiffCgiScript (named viewauth ...
The following shows dependencies between the various TWiki modules. It is generated using CPAN's module dependency but IMO is not sufficiently useful to warrant me ...
Discussion about TimDistro Twiki improved distribution. I am open to changes including project name ; ) PeterMasiar 21 May 2003 If you'd like the Unix based ...
TWikiOO This topic discusses whether having an OO TWiki is a good thing, and if so, what need to be considered. It does not stand as an action plan. Motivation According ...
Moved from BatchUploadPluginDev as it is general to the storage system: Would it be possible to have only one ZIP file per topic as container for all attachments uploaded ...
Some of the comments below probably belong on a topic of a separate name, but I've got them fresh in my mind now, hence I want to get them out now, feel free to demolish ...
Today Twiki can be used a powerful Web based collabration platform. Along with all facilities it provides we can add into Twiki a so called A TWiki Messenger Benefits ...
People are constantly wanting to improve and change the markup (TextFormattingRules) used by twiki. So much so that there is a gateway topic, TWikiSyntaxDiscuss, to ...
MattWilkie said in EasyEditor: Wild thought: MartinCleaver is often saying what makes TWiki valuable is it's RenderingPipeline, could that pipeline be lifted straight ...
Just a little brainstorming. We could create a skin with File Browser like navigation, shown as a sidebar. Screenshot of idea: PeterThoeny 23 Sep 2001 Good ...
A developer at our company implemented a page expiry system that mails owners of out of date pages. Details below. I posted this in response to the discussion at ShowPageAgeVisually ...
I need to set up a site to automate the entire ISO 9000 Process. This site has to be generic for any type of industry. State What I need Done modify htaccess ...
General need for naming standards I think we need some TopicNamingStandards to lessen the chances of similar but differently named topics. One of the Toronto PerlMongers ...
See ConsolidateNotification. Please do not use this topic any more.
Create webs for each translation of TWiki The defacto approach for TranslationSupport, with regards to topics, in twiki is wrap them up in a tarball and attach them ...
It would be nice to specify the color of text. This already can be done using HTML, but a simple way of defining colors with a new WikiSyntax would be better. Ideas ...
Currently Twiki has no way of FindingUnwrittenButLinkedPages as per the Q ListingAllUndefinedButUsedWikiWords asked by MartinCleaver . As a first pass I've written ...
Using Unix Groups For TWiki Security Different Security Levels In Same TWiki Installation Problem with Overprivileged Webserver ...
Bug: Give user a chance to reauthenticate if access is denied I just finished working up a test case for which it was necessary to be TWikiGuest. That is, I authentiicated ...
May I suggest that a link/note be added so that it appears on each page and leads to an explanation of the new look (i.e., created by the Pattern skin) and how to ...
The idea is that it could be convenient to write new topics on a WikiWiki using the BloggerApi, thus using any of the many BloggerApi compatible writing tools available ...
TWikiAdmin: Please consider renaming this page, see first aside below. Summary A TWiki heading markup with a fixed length and the level explicitly included in the ...
TWiki as Web Commentary Tool This topic incorporates some discussion refractored from IndexedThreadedDiscussions. I am interested in exploring possibility of using ...
I love PatternSkin, it makes a new TWiki installation look so professional and polished. But as the winter draws near I sometimes feel that the default colours are ...
As I implement twiki some people are telling me that English is a more developed language than wiki. They say that it is wrong to change the format of the language ...
Software Development Kit Editors EmacsCPerlMode EclipseIDE (with E.P.I.C.) PerlTidy Random ideas Whilst trying to get my latest Wiki working I was ...
Desired Plugin Hooks (once complete listed on PluginHandlers) Proposal No. Hook requestor Parameters Description 1 InternalLinkHandler ...
This topics discusses the pros and cons of disabling HTML in TWiki topics. If you were expecting something else, see RequireEXPLICITTagToEnableHTML My comment: This ...
Please consider the idea of implementing site based configuration files to allow a given site to turn on/off certain features. One thing this could be valuable for ...
We should take a step back and ask ourselves what is Preview trying to accomplish? In other words, what are the requirements that "preview" is a solution to; then ...
I've just made the first release of Morcego, a java applet to make topic maps in 3D. You can see it at http://morcego.arca.ime.usp.br/. It's already integrated in ...
I think we will all benfit from the adoption of wiki markup standards. The lack of wiki data entry standards is likely to inhibit the spread of wikis. People are ...
What is the general consensus on extending % nop INCLUDE{...}% to include handling interwiki syntax as well. I was thinking of something like: % nop INCLUDE{Wiki ...
New EditTopic The ChildTopicTemplatePlugin provides a means to dictate the template used for child topics. Often though, you cannot dictate the workflow that leads ...
Pure FeatureBrainstorming, before I lose this idea... An option list of page template types for newly created pages. Instead of just hitting ``create'' you can choose ...
While writing the code for ReleaseLocksOnSave I kept stumbling across bits and pieces obviously intended to implement the undocumented delRev and repRev functions ...
Hi all, It occurred to me whilst using TWiki to track the state of my expenses at work that I would like to be able to force a new revision of a topic. This way ...
Logically Nested Webs Introduction #NiD1 Over time there has been a lot of discussion about HierarchicallyNestedTwikiWebs. One aspect that has sometimes been touched ...
Archive of Discussion on EncodeURLsWithUTF8 From InternationalisationUTF8 older discussion. I think it's impractical to require the browser's UTF 8 url encoding ...
as far as I can recall, TWiki doesn't so far have support for anything like this, nor do I recall seeing a wishlist item if I'm wrong, let me know, and I'll delete ...
Topics such as SetMultipleDirsInSetlibDotCfg contain implicit references to other topics in this case SetlibDotCfg. This parent/child/sibling/whathaveyou link is ...
Make use of Latex whenever HTMl fails Latex, as an scriptable Text formating tool provides ways to print math, chemical formulas, Music notes, diagramms and many more ...
AntonAylward said in an email: One registerd as a BumpyWordName becuase the registration screeen converted his 'real name' to the BumpyWord, but was then very ...
The Render Pipeline converts WikiML into HTML. It is implemented in two main parts: Core Render Routines Plugin Hooks Core Render Routines. The function ...
The idea of reimplementing TWiki in Php. Personally I think this would be a lot of work, and would directly compete with other products such as PhpWiki. I personally ...
TWiki, and other wikis too, could benefit from an Easy Editor. I'm the purposely using the term Easy rather than WYSIWYG or GUI because a better editor does not necessarily ...
I propose that TWiki's primary capability is as a rendering engine. It renders ascii formatted text as HTML. I think that there would be great value in capturing in ...
PeterThoeny's answer to RegeneratingTWikiUsers just made me realise (again, for about the tenth time) that TWiki has an embedded scripting language. %SEARCH , %CALC ...
Just thinking. If we make TWiki a WebServices client, we could have an industry standard way of invoking the APIs in TWiki. 1 For example, adding attachments to ...
This topic started in MultiLevelWikiWebs. The goal is to improve the navigation within a web. Idea: Parenting Mechanism The idea is to have a logical hierarchy ...
I would like to see a offline version of a wiki. Basically I guess just install twiki on your pc, download the files, and do modifications locally. Simple option ...
Recursive searching for all group members I am trying to find a way to get a space delimited list of all members (users) of a group. Because some groups contain groups ...
It's always bugged me that ?raw on shows the text in a text box. It bugs me because you can't then use the browser find in window on the text. Why do we do this? Why ...
More Meta Data fields are needed. There are several topics requesting additional meta data: AddCheckInComment AllowDesignationOfSummary SkipMinorChanges ...
EDITTOPIC, EDITURL, and all those % nop SCRIPTURLPATH%/attach% nop SCRIPTSUFFIX%/% nop WEB%/% nop TOPIC% calls are ugly, pollute the %VAR namespace, are non internationalisable ...
The RCS files associated with topics are currently kept permanently checked out and locked by the apache user. This creates installation and general usage issues, ...
An install of mine lost a page when it ran out of diskspace. It saved the page empty. On restoring the page from the history the user took the topic text but was not ...
All too often I want to edit a page and find that it is locked by the previous editor. The current unchecked box "Release edit lock" is too easily overlooked. So please ...
I think we should be able to differentiate between a TWiki.org Release installation and a patched Distribution version (like the TWikiOnDebian package) to achieve ...
this is a first attempt to refactor the requests about SearchByDate and its interpretations as a HistoricizedSearch. an HistoricizedSearch would show results ...
These are some notes I took during my work on the GermanTranslation of some educational TWiki topics. I came across some phrases that either I am not sure about or ...
How much DakarPerformance can we reasonably expect to achieve? All of the benchmarks and tests surrounding Cairo are focussed on how much worse it is than AthensRelease ...
TWikiTimeMachine One of the major benefits of TWiki is the integral versioning you never lose content, and you can go back in time to see how a particular topic ...
There have been many many topics and threads going like: "TWiki uses RCS as backend, so it's easy to switch to CVS, Subversion, this, that..." But it never materialised ...
I sometimes get frustrated having to hit "edit" on a page to change an entry in the form. For example, to correct the status of a report in the Support web. It would ...
Introducing the OO style plugins As shown in another topic (look for it), could be very practical to have a common Base plugin and make new plugins to extends from ...
OO Plugin Api experiment Journal This is the journal of the experiments performed that produced as result the PluginOOApi. Benchmarking I created 2 twiki installations ...
Diff Raw Rendering Description In some cases, diff is more readable when rendered as raw text. For instance, if ! is used, a large result is produced. But only the ...
TWiki is perl, and perl is conventionally distributed in CPAN. However: TWiki is not a namespace on CPAN TWiki does not install to the 'standard' places ...
It would be useful to have more edit control for forms e.g. a multi value selector for user names, useful for UsingFormsForSettings. I think this is best done by a ...
I'd like to spark interest in adding some additional buttons to the edit and/or preview in the Beijing release, so I created this page summarizing the buttons (and ...
From HierarchicallyNestedTwikiWebsNaming I would, eventually, like to just point my wiki server at the filesystem directories where the source code for my project ...
A possible bug? I have noticed that the user preferences are applied only after authentication. If the edit command is open to all then all pages are shown with ...
Enhancing the skin handling is one focus of the BeijingRelease. This is currently a brainstorming idea. One idea is to offer a TWikiSkinBrowser, so that users can ...
Enabling blog based responses (comments, ratings, ...) to TWiki Topics A new approach to wiki interaction that allows users to respond to twiki topics via Blogs. Responses ...
Can TWiki be made to have self schematizing data? How can self schematizing data, and data schemas such as seem to be provided by twiki forms, be combined? Many database ...
Applet based editor for the less geeky individual What do people think of this: User can opt for applet based editor in their preferences (rather than existing ...
TWiki user group began some time ago a translation os TWiki web. We're starting some organization, and want to join TWiki i18n efforts. AntonioTerceiro 09 Jun ...
This topic was drift on Codev.ConsolidateFunctionalityFromSkins and inappropriate for TWiki.WikiWord so here it is. GrantBow 28 May 2003 Discussion moved ...
There seems to be a trend where companies are moving towards open source solutions. Some move from Windows servers to Linux. Good server applications are key. MS Exchange ...
TWiki Using CSS This is a springboard topic to address the broad area of TWiki and CSS stylesheets and overall Web standards compliance. It's long ranging topic ...
moved most topic contents to TWikiUsingCSS ... I've attached the twiki.css file I used to experiment with below. Keep in mind that this is just a test file and ...
The TWikiForms and FormattedSearch can be used to build database applications, e.g. TWikiApplication. A TWiki form defines a database table, a topic with a form is ...
The latest SpreadSheetPlugin has two new variables $SET() and $GET() . This can be used to define named variables in a topic for later use. Here are the docs: ...
Need ways of Accessing Ascribing Anchors Better for Fine Grained Addressing This is a fundamental issue that lies beneath all knowledge tools. I didn't understand ...
moved from TWikiUsingCSS on 19 May 2004 by MattWilkie Why Use CSS Although templates make this easy as a matter of individual choice, the overall TWiki drive to ...
We are finding that users consider the WebForm that appears on every page as being too intrusive. It renders in the same font size as the rest of the page, and takes ...
there seems to be some misundestanding about how the AllWordsLink concept would play out. I will put my 0.02$ worth in where I see some issues. feel free to delete ...
In the topic RenameMainWebToHome, I started commenting on the name TWiki itself, as it is a problematic word (see summary). In this topic, I've collected the comments ...
Several times I've deservedly received flak for failing to fully test code contributed for patches. Some of that flak is surely deserved; I have no excuse for cavalier ...
Skin Features Table As part of the discussion on ConsolidateFunctionalityFromSkins, MartinCleaver has produced the following comparison of features provided by various ...
We should take a step back and ask ourselves what is Preview trying to accomplish? In other words, what are the requirements that "preview" is a solution to; then ...
I've been wanting to investigate the pros and cons of using rcs Tags for workflow control, and to this end have commited the first part of this . there is not a SetTopicRevisionTag ...
What is official name for "feature" how all wikis create links using words in proper case stuck together? I've seen StudlyCaps. If it's "mixed case" or something, ...
It has become evident that before there is an "Upgrade Guide" for the Cairo Release, there needs to be an "Upgrade Strategy" and some corresponding changes to make ...
There are lots of threads on the difficulty of upgrading a TWiki install. It is even harder if you have made extensive local customisations. So I'm wondering, why ...
to YaccHowTo #!/usr/local/bin/perl4 @rem ' @echo off perl S %0.bat %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 goto endofperl '; # # Another way to evaluate infix expressions.. ...
I was flabbergasted to find that replacements made in the OutsidePREHandler affect the page not only for the topic content but also for the headers and footers etc ...
moved from topic MetadataSucks GrantBow 03 Feb 2003 I've held off mentioning this for a few days becuase I thought it was something well known, but it seems ...
Tagging Related Topics Feature: Some way to easily collect topic titles to create a Related topics: list. Scenario: You browse Codev, looking for references ...
This page is not an official page for TWiki, it is a CodevCommunity page opinions of the core team may well differ, as indeed will the community . Please see ReadmeFirst ...
In some cases it is useful to have strike through text. What is a syntax that is intuitive, easy to remember and does not break existing content? 1. Minus sign ...
CategoryTWikiSyntax In some cases it is useful to write underlined text. What is a syntax that is intuitive, easy to remember and does not break existing content? ...
How about a shortcut for nop amp; nop nbsp;? I find it so useful I have defined strings of 1 to 10 of them: Non breaking spaces S nop et s10 #37 ...
Plugin packages should, IMO, never package the ,v file because otherwise when you install them, they wipe out any site settings on install and they become irretrievable ...
Feature Idea: Settings from parent topic inherited by children The idea I was thinking about SecurityProblem and a few other things when the idea occurred to me that ...
Allow me to show you two examples, among others, on which “unmercifully” refacorization is not convinient. Recently I read PeterThoeny ґs TWikiPresentation21Jan2004 ...
This topic carries the counter argument to SingleHierarchyStinks. I'm not sure I get it. Sure, all of these arguments are very nice, but how much do any of them ...
Well, I tried; but I get a security exception loading the jar. It's probably our paranoid proxies I just discovered TWikiDraw doesn't work either. Anyone know how ...
There is still a bug: MoveAttachmentReplaceOldVersion AndreUlrich 29 Feb 2004 My users have also commented that they want to be able to MoveMultipleAttachments ...
Formatted Search with Substitution Patterns In MultipleSearchesInSameTopic, AmitTendulkar and VinodKulkarni suggest to define variables $1 , $2 , $3 etc instead ...
We could offer access to the TWiki data via XML RPC protocol. It can be used to link TWiki with another app, say, to update TWiki pages remotely. Here is what http ...
Allow search also in revisions Add a checkbox and functionality in advanced search on WebSearch to allow also to include revisions in search. This would allow to search ...
This is a test page. Tomorrow (or the day after) I will change the page by adding one or more spaces and see what change notifications occur (see below). I may do ...
Refactored from UseHtmlEditorOfChoice: MartinCleaver 16 May 2001 A naive question: should we switch to Java also for TWiki developement? Pro Dinamic loading ...
This is the page to discuss UI brainstorming ideas for presenting topic revisions. PaulReiber pointed me to RichardDrake's Wiki Clone called Why , hosted at http ...
Having written a several applications using TWiki having preferences in only TWikiPreferences and WebPreferences (or topics if you use the topic plugin), and then ...
Revision Problems Summary This page is intended to become a list (only) of the various problems and proposed solutions associated with changes/revisions on TWiki ...
As WebForm is ReadOnly to Non TWikiAdminGroup members I figured I'd start another thread of discussion about it (There is one already on the page). How about we add ...
Main point with both translations: I cannot think of a concise German equivalent for 'collaboration'. 'Kollaboration' sounds clumsy... See (german) comments 0 below ...
I have been thinking a bit about TWiki forms and why I'm not 100% happy with them. I decided that what I would prefer instead is to associate an XML schema with each ...
Proposed: Namespace Control Summary: This proposal adds a single setting to nop WebPreferences, NAMESPACEWEB. This setting controls if the topics in this web ...
It'd be way cool to be able to have users in different webs than Main. Consider: "Developers.JoeHacker" "Users.JoeAverage" "Sysadmins.JoeCamel" ...
Partial Authentication Error TWikiDocumentation knows me, but Edit does not. Test case Edit, Login, and Cancel at twiki.org. Now your browser has your credentials ...
Using Unix Groups For TWiki Security Different Security Levels In Same TWiki Installation Problem with Overprivileged Webserver ...
Using Unix Groups For TWiki Security Different Security Levels In Same TWiki Installation Problem with Overprivileged Webserver ...
If a Wikimaster wants to apply different authorization schemes to different Wikiwebs he/she should: replicate the bin directory for each scheme. enable ...
Moved from ImproveTestenv the idea is a script like testenv that focuses on the SecureSetup of TWiki, and in particular on whether the user data in TWiki is synchronised ...
Whilst installing TWikiOnWindowsWithIIS we noted that TWiki is inherently tied to Apache. This caused as problems as adding and looking up users needs to be implemented ...
Diffs are almost taken for granted and overlooked, but they are extremely powerful if used to full potential. Problem: Diffs are only viewable in one main way. ...
Has anybody considered the problem of electronic lab books? Many TWiki users use TWiki for note taking during R D, and a way of signing off this work would be invaluable ...
Beware, not revised. Again, parts of the English original interleaved with German translations. Comments in italics . % nop INCLUDE{"DocsUserNote"}% % nop STARTINCLUDE ...
Beware, this is work in progress. This translation does not assume a fully localized installation of TWiki. That's why other topics, controls c. still have their ...
Beware. Work in progress. % nop INCLUDE{"DocsUserNote"}% # Grundlagen der TWiki Kurzschrift If you can enter text, you're ready for TWiki. With a few simple, intuitive ...
% nop INCLUDE{"DocsUserNote"}% % nop STARTINCLUDE% % nop STOPINCLUDE% % nop INCLUDE{"DocsComments"}% This topic includes WikiSyntax for now (the 01 Feb 2003 release ...
Big Picture: TWiki Code Overview: This spontaneous critical look at the overall TWiki code base seems valuable. It's spawned a complementary effort Big Picture ...
The edit control (widget in unixese) on the bug reporting page (for example) that accepts a new wiki topic will not accept a wiki name formed with " " and " " ...
Wikipedia:Technology acceptance model Page 6 (slide 25) on http://www.taloustieteet.oulu.fi/opiskelu/opiskelumateriaali/kuluttajak.pdf In short this says that ...
When Topic Not Found, Check For Link on Other TWiki Server When TWiki does not find a link, it should optionally search a remote TWiki for a link to the concept on ...
How about having a SpecialAdminPage? (in fact being a script like view ) This page should only be usuble for users of the TWikiAdminGroup. With this "page" various ...
Perhaps for WebStatisticsToExternalLinks? http://www.planet source code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId 535 lngWId 6 MartinCleaver 27 Nov 2003
(part of the SignatureNetiquette topic) The standard signature is nice but can make some pages not very legible for some ThreadMode pages for: 1 long contributions ...
Just found this tool http://pathalizer.bzzt.net/ which produces a graphviz traffic diagram like this: "Pathalizer takes an apache access.log and from this generates ...
Can we have a META:TOPICCHILDREN tag ? Currently there is a tag META:TOPICPARENT so a child page retains information on its parents. What do you think of having a ...
I'd like to see a feature where you can define aliases to point to specific pages so that (say) writing 'vim' or vim generates a link to VimEditor that looks like ...
When doing a formatted search across multiple webs, the search results are currently grouped by web. If you do a search in Weba, Webb and Webc, then the hits for Weba ...
Please, do not use XHTML in TWIKI As I see people trying to convert progressively TWiki to xhtml, I would like to voice against it. Do not forget that TWiki pages ...
e.g. ComponentisingForceWikiWord JavaScriptDatePickerForForm MartinCleaver 10 Oct 2003 AndreUlrich 12 Oct 2003
I think it would be useful to have a wiki where all plugins are automatically installed, each plugin has a web to itself so it can be system tested. Then, for integration ...
Just thinking. If we embed a copy of SoapLite in TWiki, we could have pages that incorporate return values from WebServices in the text of the page. For instance: ...
Related: OfflineWiki, ReadWriteOfflineWiki, WikiClusters, WebsitePublishing, NonWebAccessToWiki, TWikiWithCVS, TWikiXML, LoadTesting, GenericMetaDataStoreForTopics ...
TOC Handling Needs An Overhaul % nop TOC% is one of the most useful features in TWiki it instantly adds useful structure and unlike some TWiki tags is intuitive ...
It would be very useful to be able to render RSS feeds into HTML on a TWiki page this would let TWiki act as a simple portal, pulling in news feeds from weblogs ...
We are playing with using TWiki to serve as our project development space for a small project here at my work. We have created a web/zone for the project. We then ...
The RevisionLinkPlugin allows you to link to a previous version of a topic. Spinning this idea further we could support a set of attributes for links. This can be ...
How to get a dropdown list with a preselected value I came across this problem in BetterMore, but it occurs in more places with dropdown lists. Sometimes you want ...
In some cases it is useful to restrict the change of certain fields in a TWikiForm. This could be accomplished by adding TWikiAccessControl to a form field. In other ...
MegaTWiki, with HierarchicallyNestedTwikiWebs, is a great step forward. Although I am not sure I like being called a Corporate Weenie. This is moving towards Twiki ...
Please excuse me while I presume to speak as if I'm the spokesman for many. I trust that if my words do not accurately reflect your views you will correct me. mw ...
I'm now on the WebNotify list for 3 different servers on several Twiki webs, with the most active being my own one at present... As usage increases and the number ...
Dave Winer of UserLand Software posted an interesting article about ways to replicate membership data between web sites. He is asking for an open standard that is ...
It might be worth considering a similar to system to FAQ O MATIC (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/ff serve/cache/1.html). This would certain to go reduce system load ...
It would be extremely useful to be able to use a nop inside the Values field of a TWiki Form. This would allow the structure of documentation to be based on much ...
We need a Plugin Security Model. This way it would be a lot easier to run code in plugins and avoid problems with HostileUsers and MaliciousBugs : ) Probably a virtual ...
I need to set up a small site like SourceForge. I've had a look at most of the SourceForge in a can packages, and most are gross overkill for what I need. What I need ...
Proposal: Add functionality to Retrieve last change The idea here is simple: Currently you can get at the last diff by clicking on the link for comparing the ...
Hey guys, anyone else noticed that you can tell on a daily basis who is looking at what by taking a look the the diffs between versions of the WebStatistics page? ...
There are many I18N and L10N TWiki subprojects, mostly linked from InternationalisationEnhancements, but none of them seem to have a solution to translate the TWiki ...
I wonder if other people need this or think that it's already covered? Lately I've been wishing there was a collection of HowTo articles for the common moderate to ...
This is musing about a possible extension to TWiki's handling of attachments; it may be doable within a plugin. My group my community of people using wiki would ...
Uses for Frames Page created by AndyGlew 26 Jun 2003 This page is for a discussion of using frames in TWiki. Probably this is just a skin issue, and possibly this ...
Following PeterThoeny's statement on OfflineWiki on 19 Apr 2000. I've had some thought towards creating a generic access wiki interface. Initially the best use ...
I am struggling with my first TWiki upgrade and now I realized why so many Twikis run on obsolete install: It's a major pain! : ( I tried to create separate page for ...
The feature I would like to have changed the most is the way the time is handled in TWiki. Instead of using the date/time format of "29 Oct 2001", it is in my interest ...
With no way of structuring variables (e.g. into arrays) and an increasing number of creative uses for variables (HardwiredRDiffColours, plugins), I fear that variables ...
I was thinking about generalising and componentising the mechanism behind the MailInAddOn when I realised: I want to be able to script TWiki to perform certain actions ...
I'm planning on doing a proper Windows installer for InternetExplorerSidebars, probably using Inno Setup Extensions (an OpenSource installer development tool for Windows ...
I'm also going through existing comments to see if anyone else has tried to come up with a good description of the current logical breakdown of a twiki page in this ...
Comment moved from TWikiUnixInstaller by MartinCleaver Great work Micheal! The whole process is much smoother; I only have one significant problem now for cygwin ...
Proposal This has come up in 2 other contexts so far. Whilst view/etc are skinnable, currently mailnotify's output can only be changed by changing mailnotify.tmpl ...
Skin Master is a role to ensure that skin development is coordinated, that best practices are carried forward and that pressing issues are resolved in a timely manner ...
TWiki nop WebDAV Server The idea of extending TWiki so that it is also a WebDAV server. PeterThoeny 23 Sep 2000 This idea is not as far fetched as you might ...
UPDATE: Refactoring stopped (not completed) rather than agonize any more trying to get this page "perfected" I'll just leave it as is for now it conveys the story ...
TWikiOOUseCases This topic is intended to discuss the use cases of TWiki at in high level UML ish fashion. Related Topics: TWikiOO, TWikiObjectResponsibilities ...
What I'd love to see disk paths rendered into clickable hyperlinks just like http:/... links do. Maybe it's an extension of the idea of AbsoluteWikization, but I'm ...
(moved by MartinCleaver from rev 1.8 of CodevDocumentationProject) Please see SlashFilenamePlugin One thing I have found helpful in code documentation within twiki ...
Role As part of CoreTeamNominations, we should identify a TWikiTestMaster whose role is to ensure that new code functions as specified. Responsibilities include: ...
http://xopus.org/ a browser based in place wysiwyg XML editor with a plugin architecture. Apparently has been in development/use since 2000 in some content management ...
Deleted, all useful content incorporated in KonquerorVerticalWhitespaceProblemResolution, including a stylesheet that can be installed locally which does help with ...
Optimizing the handling of preferences Iґve put this together to have one place where all topics regarding the optimization of preferences handling are listed. This ...
This item is about meta data philosophy and performance. This is an appeal to return to the essential "wikiness" of TWiki topics. Metadata was added to the raw text ...
The current procedure to update an attachment is to go through a download/edit/save/upload cycle for each update of documents attached to a TWiki topic. At work I ...
Factoring out below two posts from CoffeeBreak. PeterThoeny 13 May 2003 A combination of Wiki, LXR, and nop ViewCVS, and perhaps also nop WikiAsSourceCodeControl ...
Contents Background This suggestion is driven by my intermittent problems saving to TWiki (twiki.org), probably exacerbated by my dial up connection and Sourceforge ...
When I switch to the printable view references to missing topics are still suffixed with an ?, hence my user's printouts end up littered. Now I understand that they ...
We (at PassEdge) are moving to CVS for our source code system, and there are some nice features (like the 'concurrent' in CVS) which could make TWiki a little better ...
The parse pipeline would take user input as typed on topics text entries and meta data entry panes, perform any required validation, enrichment or processing of the ...
The Problem Discussions in HierarchicallyNestedTwikiWebsNaming and RenameMainWebToHome have touched on the issue break existing URLs! I generalize this issue: if ...
See SelfSchematizingTWikiData Hmmm... while I am at it, would anyone like PerlSQL to be available inside twiki? So that you could write an SQL query that applied to ...
Various guides to the use of Perl's taint checking, such as the Secure Programming Guide, Taint Checking FAQ and perldoc perlsec , make it clear that you should always ...
Just thinking... in theory, it should be very easy to expose TWiki via a Wap browser. I think Zope already does this. MartinCleaver 05 Jun 2002 Probably not that ...
Note: Refactoring in progress. The reference to PerlDiff doesn't work yet. The Issues Actually, RCS should not be dropped altogether, but it should be made pluggable ...
Question TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003 Perl version: v5.6.1 Web server version: Apache/1.3.27 OpenSSL/0.9.6g (Unix) mod gzip/1.3.19.1a mod perl/1.21 ...
Hiding User Pages My company does custom application developement specifically, factory automation software. We have a TWiki that we have used for a few years as ...
When using the % INCLUDE% variable with a URL, should the return page be processed for TWiki syntax? E.G.: one page I included (http://sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware ...
Adding a "Save Your Changes" warning to the edit template One of my users asked me to implement this so that he would remember to save his changes regularly. My ...
Just an idea of mine that makes me afraid I just reimplemented the wheel: I sometimes write texts that use a lot of words that look like WikiNames but are not (like ...
IBIS (Issue Based Information System) is a methodology for storing discussions in an organized manner (i.e., as questions, ideas, and arguments. It is thought to be ...
Please take a look at the topic http://reiber.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NavigationBar this would be a pretty awesome navigation bar solution if it worked for Mozilla ...
when a user notices that they create may pages that look the same, they should be able to make a html forms edit from one of them... my idea for how is to use VARIABLE ...
I was just looking at GoIsSearch, and I had a thought: perhaps many people would like to be able to customize the way the Go box behaves on their wiki. And also: ...
A Simple SQL for TWiki Form Data would be a nice enhancement that increases the value of TWiki because it opens the door to folks who are familiar with SQL. PeterThoeny ...
Could a link checker tool be included with TWiki? It probably wouldn't do to have it run on every save, but a manual check of a page, or a periodic check in the background ...
Threaded Discussions Why? Why do ThreadedDiscussions as a feature of a wiki? That seems to go somewhat against the grain of the original wiki ideas. Is this a ...
Implementing this would be a stretch, but it would be nice if i could copy a URL like http://twiki.org/cgi bin/view/Codev/PasteTWikiStyleLinksFromURLs and, when I ...
As a consequence of FileSystemNameClash, I like one impact of Win32's braindead filesystem. When I use a Wiki, I don't want to try to remember the author's sometimes ...
A MoinMoin bookmark allows you to set a stable marker to identify when you last paid attention to the changes made on the Wiki. When you decide that you've caught ...
I'm looking at setting up a system for tracking bugs and support issues like what is done here with forms. I'd be interested to hear what people think of the current ...
I recently realised that InterwikiPluginEarlyDev can be used to do some simple semantic markup for example, I use an ID: Interwiki tag to link to Internet Drafts ...
This is a wild idea for TWiki folks but this is a fascinating area. I'll try my best to describe why I think this is an interesting brainstorm topic and potentially ...
I notice on the Main web that the TWikiUsers topic has 5196 edits. It got me thinking about the limits of RCS. I don't know if there are any limits in either practical ...
I think we could build a plugin that would provide a set of dynamically or periodically built pages to represent (geographically) close people. Individuals would state ...
Introduction and Objectives I've been looking at all the skin packages with a view to setting up a "user friendly" Twiki, or at least one where the programatic aspects ...
SourceForge sent an email out with this announcement. 3. SOURCEFORGE PEER RATINGS SYSTEM We've implemented a peer rating system on SourceForge. This feature ...
I would like some syntax to assign metadata properties to a page or entire wiki in a manner compatible with RDF. I don't know if this would be best done visibily ...
Using Aug2002 beta. The nop placed in front of a variable name does not stop the expansion of the variable. I know there are pipeline issues involved in dealing ...
I just posted the PerlDocPlugin that allows one to extract POD from Perl modules and display the documentation in a TWiki topic. I intend to use that feature to document ...
Below text is carried over from a TWiki Dev discussion. PeterThoeny 25 Nov 2002 Plugins should make sure that they can handle an undef or zero result from TWiki ...
Anyone implemented a system to post diffs of the changes to topics out with the WebNotify report? I'd find this really quite useful especially as there is no way of ...
(Moved from WindowsInstallCookbookComments) RD NOTE : Please ask support questions, whether or not they relate to WindowsInstallCookbook, over on Support.AskedQuestions ...
I was looking at the HandheldsWiki ( http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki ) apparently the hackers that be have ported Linux to the Ipaq (this kicks off the PocketPC ...
It would be nice to have an indication of what links in a page are new or have been changed recently. Possible solution: When rendering a topic, check the last ...
Furthering my comments in NonWebAccessToWiki, this space is for development of basic XML format for storage. Initial requirements would be Header version ...
I wanted a way to construct a page that would point to topics and automatically display the last revised date/time. So you could have your Web Home look like: MainDocument ...
TWiki's grep based search is amazingly fast. At work we have over 800 topics in our knowledge base web and search is more then good enough. However, it can get a issue ...
The Render Pipeline converts WikiML into HTML. It is implemented in two main parts: Core Render Routines Plugin Hooks Core Render Routines. The function ...
See also Wikilearn.TWikiVariablesForTWikiNewbies . I have started to provide additional documentation for TWiki in a literate programming style using Leo (Literate ...
This topic has some UI experiments on a smoother TWiki look, while still preserving the classic look feel. A first cut is the RoundEdgeSkin. Example: This topic ...
I am curious to know if some of you use TWiki to centralize the software documentation authoring process. There is no doubt for me that TWiki is the best tool to ...
Has anybody given any thought to upload/download access controls to restrict access to particular people. I think I can draw a parallel between download and the current ...
Apple's nop HyperCard From http://www.apple.com/hypercard/ : "HyperCard organizes information into easy to use "stacks" of cards through which users can navigate and ...
Indexed Threaded Discussions I recently got an idea for how to possibly improve ThreadMode discussions. The cool thing is that it requires no new features simply ...
TWiki lists non writable directories in data directory as a web Create a directory that is not writable by the web server user in the TWiki data directory. If you ...
I'd like to post an RFE to add TWiki markup for HTML comments. This would be especially important to me if I there was an option in TWiki to disable HTML tags. Until ...
I often want to sort links in alphabetical order based on what will appear in view. A typical situation is with links as separate list items bulleted or numbered ...
TWikiObjectInteractions This topic will be seeded from discusssions in TWikiObjectResponsibilities, and is intended for discussion of object interactions and interface ...
TWikiObjectResponsibilities This topic will be seeded from discusssions in TWikiOOUseCases, and is intended for discussion of the Roles and Responsibilities of ...
TWikiServiceDiscoveryAndRegistration Several discussions have begun to brew in CommonFrontEndCgiScript, TWikiOO, and elsewhere, around the subject of coming up with ...
I tried to create documentation with TWiki. The HTML presentation is ok, but when I printed it it look horrible. Can there be a way to produce some printing frendlier ...
Here's a dumb idea why don't we rename the view script to "aview" or just "a" (and while we're at it, rename cgi bin to "a" also)? Background: Quite often, I navigate ...
Was there any attempt/discussion on making a Wiki module for Apache? If such thing would be done using standard Apache some free sql database it would be really ...
Not sure if anyone's already covered this, since I'm new around here, but it seems like a perfect thing to be able to render searches as RSS summaries for inclusion ...
I have noticed that WebNotify sends notifications out with all users listed in the To: header. Hence, some emails may have 10 25 lines of "To" entries, as well as ...
We are currently putting quite a lot of documents into our TWiki, and several of these documents contain the sort of information that will go out of date after a while ...
Send Mail to TWiki At my company we are looking at replacing an existing project tracking/management tool with TWiki. One of the features that the existing tool provides ...
TWikiService s are what I'm calling the object oriented components of TWiki core code (see TWikiOO). They should not be confused with WebService s, but should ...
I have built an for the http://www.e smith.org Mitel SME server which makes it fairly trivial to install TWiki. One issue that has come up is how to handle upgrades ...
I have a TWiki installation which is short on space and I'm paring TWiki down as much as I can without losing useful information. I notice that for the nop TWiki ...
This experimental page is now closed with results down below. This page is an incubator of sorts, and an easy place to toss out a thought that doesn't yet merit ...
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a proposed way of realizing Tim Berner Lee's vison of the SemanticWeb. From the W3C web site, http://www.w3c.org/RDF/: ...
(Inspired by BabelOfWikis) Seems like it might be a good idea to have an XML (or other) based "WIF": Wiki Interchange Format. Oh, wait! There already is one! It's ...
I'm brandly new to TWiki. I'm developing tools for web teaching. I was also considering hypernews ( http://www.hypernews.org ). In both cases I want to add the possibility ...
A few ideas for what the FormTemplateSystem could be used for in the future. Workflow Some small change could enable a simple workflow system e.g. Triggers on ...
See PackageTWikiStore for now. NicholasLee 23 Jul 2000 Following from the discussion in AreWebsTopics, this topic will slowly grow to to define the API with examples ...
Just some toughts from an inesperienced WikiEnthusiast ... I like a lot the Wiki concept, I thik WardCunnigham has started a small but important revolution in ...
Seems that given the recent announcement at Freshmeat.net that we got slashdotted. More details can be found at http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/3504 ...
Food for thought from MIT media labs, their project called MrWeb: http://cac.media.mit.edu:8080/contextweb/project?name MrWeb though there isn't much there yet. The ...
Idea: Render a Topic to HTML after each edit and store it The behaviour of TWiki rendering each page to HTML whenever the Topic is requested ever and ever again ...
I really dislike WikiWords with spaces in them simply because they break the rules about what a topic will be called. For example, I know that the WikiWord that refers ...
I'm starting to get confused (that's easy for me to do) about all the extra new features that (can be) (are) implemented in TWiki and how they can be implemented ...
This is the complement to Tweaks For Intranet Use . I've been running a TWiki site on the internet for about a year now at http://twiki.cageyconsumer.com, but to ...
In order to synchronise a ReadWriteOfflineWiki, it would be useful if there was a way to grab the .txt files directly via HTTP, i.e. TextFileExport. ( rsync would ...
Editing a page to change the value of a variable is rather unintuitive. Using forms (а la EvEm) may be a solution for variables associated to every page in a web ...
It would be convienent to be able to easily create an internal link to a particular heading within a topic. I realize that one can accomplish this currently by creating ...
Yeah, call me mad. I was reading http://www.arielpartners.com/arielpartners/content/public/topics/technology/technologyReviews/zopeVsCocoon and it got me thinking ...
I think that in some future version one has to rearrange the way directories are managed by TWiki. All pertinent data (the topic, the pub directory and the ...
In SubmitTopicByEmail RichardDonkin said: Also, I'm interested in how TWiki would fit into a CMM Level 3 culture, which presumably is very process and quality centric ...
Is a weblog (blog) software written in Perl, but that's not important to this topic. What is important is that GreyMatter has the slickest installation and configuration ...
NOTE: this feature request is attempting to fix what appear to be two bugs, one cache related and one not see ViewAfterSaveCachesOldPage and ViewAfterSaveLosesText ...
When I try to move a topic, TWiki scan the site to retrieve all topics referencing it, giving me the possibility to update them (default) or not. Unfortunately, TWiki ...
I've often though it'd be useful to have a start modifier to a formated search just like the count modifier. That way you can control how may search results are ...
I find very annoying the fact that there is no simple way to define a link to the home page of a Web. if I write Coweb.WebHome I just get WebHome, that is ...
Collaboration Site Taking Wiki to the Nth Degree This is the result of my mind wandering over what's common between most Collaborative ...
They're working on this over at JspWiki: http://www.ecyrd.com/JSPWiki/Wiki.jsp?page WikiRPCInterface And I've implemented this for TWiki over here: http ...
I am setting up TWiki on an intranet Server and would like to use Specific Links with relative URI like nop /mirror/internic/rfc index.html RFC Index . To make ...
This is a test page. Tomorrow (or the day after) I will change the page by adding one or more blank lines and see what change notifications occur (see below). I ...
Topics That Die Hmm. I've just been looking through the archives and came across TWikiXML. I was wondering what it is that draws a topic to conclusion. Anyone got ...
Importing Contexts How about we add to the meta information for a page that we want to import all definitions from another web. We could make it work the same way ...
How to discuss (and sign) most effectively in TWiki PeterThoeny 24 Jan 2001 This is a small, but nevertheless important detail I would like to discuss with you ...
TWiki Next Generation This page is a collection of topics and a focal point for ongoing discussion related to the future organization of TWiki's architecture. Please ...
I use a number of different browsers and it would be nice to have the skin I use be determined by the browser I am connecting with. Has anybody come up with a solution ...
For an "intro" to this idea, please read QuickCommentDiscussion... I am trying to intercept and modify the topic text on the way to the save script. I have created ...
If changes are made to the TWiki markup for tables, I'd like to vote ( ; ) ) for providing a method of specifying column width in the TWiki markup. Or, for a way ...
A quick scan of of the various feature pages didn't reveal this specific request, so ... In our (intranet) TWiki we work with tables pretty often. Many tables list ...
I encounterd the term super web in another context (dunno where) on twikiDotOrg. I'm not sure if that term applies properly to what I want here... It would be nice ...
It's quite easy to create a local style sheet to render the contents a bit neater. But it would be very nice to have this feature in the default distribution, especially ...
After installing the 01 Sept 2001 version, I noticed that the format of the supplied TWikiWebsTable looked different. I saw that border and BGcolor etc changed ...
I initially wanted to be my public wiki multilingual, but that would have ask too much discipline from it's users. A scheme that would make this possible would be ...
Consider that we give topics only to nouns (to answer the question "What") and have discussions as verbs relating to those nouns. It would require a SubWeb for each ...
If there's a a core feature set that defines/unites all Wikis then perhaps there's a SuperWiki as well, a http://c2.com/w2/wiki/CommonWiki CommonWiki with all ...
SOAP TWiki I've been thinking of ways to implement a SOAP based TWiki server. You'd have to make all the same mods to TWiki codebase and scripts that it'd take to ...
We probably need a general mechanism to handle sessions: by cookies? (but we raise the browser requirements) by url rewriting Pro we can handle variables ...
See TWikiUsabilityTesting Test Worked Y/N Notes Read home page Authentication request invoked Allowed to change without request ...
I habitually find myself composing pages out of others (much like Mike has in CollaborationGuidelines). I'd be interested to see whether anyone else would value an ...
In order to provide different "views" of the same document (for instance with different languages, as described in TWikiPluginAPI, I think that one could customize ...
This topic grew out of reading about TrashCanWeb and RenameTopic, which inspired me with the idea of topics as objects. I propose the following: If you take the premise ...
I created this topic to brainstorm about text and Forms. I'd like to bring up an idea that basically came to me as I was sleeping last night. (I read about Twiki and ...
Cryptic summary to date (see RenameViewToAview for the blow by blow): I was looking for a way to rename view to aview so it would appear first in alphabetical order ...
An idea for after the next release. Being able to set properties using " Set xxx yyy" works fairly well. But, it's not that obvious to occasional users. How ...
Work in Progress In the event of a multiple commit path, ie. email to twiki, soft locks and clusters or even pod to twiki, there should be a well defined commit cycle ...
Some templates have now moved from being .tmpl files in the templates directory to topics. They can be different for different Webs, but they are not skinnable ...
It would be cool if it was possible to share certain topics with outside partners/customers without giving them access to the rest of the Twiki. This would require ...
I was wondering if anyone had considered a generic form editor. It could work a bit like the use of category editors where a list of items defines the form and templates ...
I've been wondering about more capable searching e.g. auto generating a search for FormTemplateSystem, which would require AND capability. In an idle moment I changed ...
Rendering Metadata Values (and Database Queries) I would like to be allowed to use metadata values in the body of topics. I propose the syntax used is (almost) exactly ...
I managed to get my categories displayed as a bulleted list by modifying twikicatview.tmpl to look like this: WikiLearn Page Evaluation % nop REPEAT% % nop CATNAME ...
Doug Engelbart, the father of the computer mouse invented many things in his life. One system was AUGMENT, an Open Hyperdocument Systems like he calls it. http://www ...
What's this? MartinCleaver 15 Jun 2001 See MirrorsAndCodeDuplication PeterThoeny 16 Jun 2001 TopicClassification: FeatureBrainstorming
Thinking of Wiki as a source of information, it has the restriction that this information can be added only by humans for the time being. I think, there should be ...
At my new place of work we need to use alot of standards documents. I am finding the non linked nature of MsWord and Adobe rather annoying, and so I would like to ...
I'm not sure where this conversation will go, but I thought I'd do a brain dump! What is the difference between a Topic and a Context (or a Topic's manisfestation ...
In alpha release at present, the link for viewing an attachment includes the version number. So if you are looking at an old version of the topic, the link will be ...
Something from ZWiki. Notice how if you aren't authericated to the server, edit defaults to 'show source'. ie. An edit window without the save/preview option. http ...
Hi there, Has anyone implemented getting Twiki to insert a back reference to the referring page when you are creating a new topic? So, for instance, if I create ...
How useful would a NativeVersionFormat be, rather than RCS. The advantage being the complete removal of a RCS dependancy. This will probably be a good thing from ...
Moved to PutUsersInUserWeb MartinCleaver 22 Mar 2001 TopicClassification: FeatureBrainstorming
(Hidden) Tables are widely used for "pixel perfect" HTML page layout. Perhaps a table widget would be an interesting editing tool? SteveRoe 09 Mar 2001 Perhaps ...
Add a new TWiki web that has end user documentation as proposed by PeterFokkinga in http://client44 1.kabelA.oprit.rug.nl/twiki/bin/view/Portal/WebHome PeterThoeny ...
Creating new Wiki topics requires some kind of thought to find the proper WikiWord referring to it. I reckon, a WikiWord should be descriptive and non ambiguous. ...
OK, i needed to have some way to set a page value, so i added some code to allow... http://twiki.org/cgi bin/edit/Codev/SetTemporaryValues?SOMEVARIABLE something where ...
Went to edit the TWikiDocumentation page and discovered it was a pile of % nop INCLUDE%s. Maybe we should change the semantic on this and have it include/aggregate ...
Exist this topic ? PetricaClementChiriac 09 Dec 2000 Yes, now it does : (BTW, what is it an OpenInitiativeSection?) AndreaSterbini 14 Dec 2000 TopicClassification ...
I'm not happy with the formatting mechanisms for category information. The current substitution mechanism really forces a table. What I'd like and will probably ...
Related informations in HowShouldTWikiBeModularized I think we should consider the possibility of connecting TWiki to an sql database (mysql, postgres, ...) Possible ...
There is some potential use in ForumZilla http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/ for TWiki. This is where a dynamic plugable rendering pipeline could prove useful. This would ...
My system now has locked pages, which means I can and do lock Web and Site preference pages (as it could be when group permissions appear). However, if someone wants ...
The private part of our Web is getting a little busy. I altered changes.tmpl to have the following line in the HEAD part: META HTTP EQUIV "REFRESH" CONTENT "600 ...
From: IbisWiki Type: Question Name: QzHowShouldAnIbisWikiBeImplemented Text: How Should An IbisWiki Be Implemented? Context: QzHowShouldAnIbisWikiBeImplemented ...
I think that having a generic form building utility would be a nice asset to the system. We currently have a category form building and interpetaion system which ...
I have moved the old content of this page to the hopefully better named RevisionSelectorVariable topic. The attachment belongs there. ( AndreaSterbini 01 Sep ...
Canonical Topic Stored Form To be able to handle some browser idiosyncracies, TWiki topics are preprocessed to bring them to a fixed syntax before being stored as ...
This occurred to me while I was thinking about searching all revisions of all topics for a regular expression. This is something I expect to remain in the FeatureBrainstorming ...
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Related topics: WebHome, BrainstormScratchPad, FeatureEnhancementRequests, FeatureToDo, FeatureUnderConstruction, FeatureDone, FeatureNotSuitable Topic revision: r17 - 2006-11-08 - 23:08:08 - RichMorin
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