AutoCompletePlugin

All this plugin does is implement Arthur Clemens' TWiki:Plugins/AutoCompleteAddOn as a plugin, which allows users to provide an autocomplete text box using the %AUTOCOMPLETE% syntax, and also in TWikiForms (shown below).

Usage

Before you can use this plugin, you need to set up some data for the autocomplete. Examples can be found at AutoCompletePluginTestData.

In Topics and Templates

This plugin expands the %AUTOCOMPLETE{...}% variable, which takes the parameters described in AutoCompletePlugin#Parameters.

In TWikiForms

To use this plugin in TWikiForms, create a form template as descibed in TWikiForms#Defining_a_Form. This plugin adds the autocomplete type of field. To pass the parameters required by the plugin, place them in the Values column. An example is shown below:

You can use many of same attributes as you would in topics, except the following:

• name
• size
• value
• class
• formname

Parameters

Example

If installed, the following should create an jump box (TWiki 4.1):

Source:

<script type="text/javascript">
var SubmitJump = function(sType, aArgs) {
    document.myJumpForm.submit();
}
</script>
<form name="myJumpForm" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%BASEWEB%/%BASETOPIC%">%AUTOCOMPLETE{ name="topic" datatopic="Sandbox.AutoCompletePluginTestData"  datasection="topiclist" value="Jump" formname="myJumpForm" class="twikiInputField patternFormFieldDefaultColor" onfocus="clearDefaultandCSS(this);" onblur="setDefaultText(this);" itemselecthandler="SubmitJump" size="128px" }%</form>

Rendered:

Installation Instructions

You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server where TWiki is running.

Like many other TWiki extensions, this module is shipped with a fully automatic installer script written using the BuildContrib.

• If you have TWiki 4.1 or later, you can install from the configure interface (Go to Plugins->Find More Extensions)
  • The webserver user has to have permission to write to all areas of your installation for this to work.
• If you have a permanent connection to the internet, you are recommended to use the automatic installer script
  • Just download the AutoCompletePlugin_installer perl script and run it.
• Notes:
  • The installer script will:
    • Automatically resolve dependencies,
    • Copy files into the right places in your local install (even if you have renamed data directories),
    • check in new versions of any installed files that have existing RCS histories files in your existing install (such as topics).
    • If the $TWIKI_PACKAGES environment variable is set to point to a directory, the installer will try to get archives from there. Otherwise it will try to download from twiki.org or cpan.org, as appropriate.
    • (Developers only: the script will look for twikiplugins/AutoCompletePlugin/AutoCompletePlugin.tgz before downloading from TWiki.org)
  • If you don't have a permanent connection, you can still use the automatic installer, by downloading all required TWiki archives to a local directory.
    • Point the environment variable $TWIKI_PACKAGES to this directory, and the installer script will look there first for required TWiki packages.
      • $TWIKI_PACKAGES is actually a path; you can list several directories separated by :
    • If you are behind a firewall that blocks access to CPAN, you can pre-install the required CPAN libraries, as described at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/HowToInstallCpanModules
• If you don't want to use the installer script, or have problems on your platform (e.g. you don't have Perl 5.8), then you can still install manually:
  1. Download and unpack one of the .zip or .tgz archives to a temporary directory.
  2. Manually copy the contents across to the relevant places in your TWiki installation.
  3. Check in any installed files that have existing ,v files in your existing install (take care not to lock the files when you check in)
  4. Manually edit LocalSite.cfg to set any configuration variables.
  5. Run configure and enable the module, if it is a plugin.
  6. Repeat from step 1 for any missing dependencies.

Plugin Files

Plugin Info

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