Discussion Forum Add-On
The
DiscussionForumAddOn allows to populate news and make comments on it in a Slashdot like way.
The
DiscussionForumAddOn is not a magical Plugin - it is simply an ingenious implementation of TWiki templates and searches using patterns in order to create the appearance of a bunch of different discussion forums. In reality, hidden text is embedded into each Topic that is created in order to generate the different "forums".
NOTE: DiscussionForumAddOn has only been really tested in it's own Twiki Web, not as a part of a larger web. This is not to say it won't work, only that it has not been tested as of this update.
DiscussionForumAddOn is comprised of two component distributions:
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DiscussionForumAddOn.zip Contains this topic plus a graphic file that goes into /public
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DiscussionForumTemplates.zip Contains the raw templates that need to be copied into the Twiki web destined to be the repository of your new Discussion Forum.
Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this add-on. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the add-on on the server where TWiki is running.
- Install the TWiki:Plugins.CommentPlugin if it's not already installed.
- Download the ZIP files from the Add-on Home (see below)
- Unzip
DiscussionForumAddOn.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:
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Description: |
data/TWiki/DiscussionForumAddOn.txt |
AddOn topic |
data/TWiki/DiscussionForumAddOn.txt,v |
AddOn topic repository |
pub/TWiki/DiscussionForumAddOn/edge.gif |
edge image |
pub/TWiki/DiscussionForumAddOn/edge.gif,v |
edge image repository |
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- Unzip
DiscussionForumTemplates.zip into the data directory of the new web where you want the Discussion Forums to take place. Content:
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DiscussionForumOverview.txt |
The root of your Forums, gives an overview of 5 articles |
DiscussionForumOverview.txt,v |
topic repository |
DiscussionForumTemplate.txt |
create and post new articles |
DiscussionForumTemplate.txt,v |
topic repository |
DiscussionForumArchiv.txt |
shows all posted articles in short form |
DiscussionForumArchiv.txt,v |
topic repository |
DiscussionForumCreate.txt |
create and post new articles |
DiscussionForumCreate.txt,v |
topic repository |
DiscussionForumHead.txt |
holds HTML tags for articles |
DiscussionForumHead.txt,v |
topic repository |
DiscussionForumImages.txt |
holds images for article-categories |
DiscussionForumImages.txt,v |
topic repository |
DiscussionForumCategoryOptions.txt |
holds the list of selectable article-categories, editable |
DiscussionForumCategoryOptions.txt,v |
topic repository |
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- Upload the icon image for the article-categories into DiscussionForumImages as
Attachments
- Configure/Create categories by editing DiscussionForumCategoryOptions with your category names. For every category there must be an icon image OF THE SAME NAME (see DiscussionForumImages).
- Test if the installation was successful:
- Try to create a new Discussion Forum through DiscussionForumOverview
- look in DiscussionForumOverview for the new forum.
- Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Discussion forum with comments in a Slashdot like way
Related Topic: TWikiAddOns
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TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich - 04 May 2003
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SteveRJones - 06 Jul 2004
Topic revision: r11 - 2007-10-16 - 03:26:12 -
PeterThoenyPlugins.DiscussionForumAddOn moved from Plugins.DiscssionForumAddOn on 2003-05-06 - 07:45 by PeterThoeny -
put it back