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PurplePluginDev

This plugin adds purple links to all site topics. The generation of anchors in the first version will be dynamic and unstored, the numbers are only for display. A future feature of this plugin is planned to allow the static anchors to be embedded in the pages themselves. Because it's design is to allow granular addressability.

There are three types of addressability possible with Purple.

  • purple numbers correspond to Augment's hierarchical address
  • NID is Node ID which is supposed to be a static anchor that never changes as content is moved about, changed, deleted, etc. It is designed to be globally assigned for some given namespace.
  • label is for HTML a regular anchor.

Source of the software is http://www.eekim.com/software/purple/ by Eugene Kim and/or http://www.blueoxen.org/tools/purplewiki/.

Examples

PurplePluginDev Global Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

  • One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
    • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = adds purple anchors and links to all site topics

  • Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
    • Set DEBUG = 0

  • My own setting:
    • Set PURPLEPLUGINENABLE = 1 - a better name for this variable needs to be created.

Plugin Installation Instructions

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

  • Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
  • Unzip PurplePluginDev.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:
    File: Description:
    data/TWiki/PurplePluginDev.txt Plugin topic
    data/TWiki/PurplePluginDev.txt,v Plugin topic repository
    lib/TWiki/Plugins/PurplePluginDev.pm Plugin Perl module
  • Set the PURPLEPLUGINENABLE variable in your site wide preferences TWiki.TWikiPreferences.
  • Test if the installation was successful by viewing any page.

Plugin Info

Plugin Author: TWiki:Main/GrantBow
Plugin Version: 20 Jan 2003 (V0.01)
Change History:  
20 Jan 2003: Plugin brainstorming begins.
CPAN Dependencies: libxml-enno, CGI.pm
Other Dependencies: libexpat C library XML parser or XT XML parser & Java
Perl Version: 5.005
Plugin Home: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PurplePluginDev
Feedback: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/PurplePluginDevDev

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/GrantBow - 20 Jan 2003



Umm. This topic should be renamed to be PurplePlugin not PurplePluginDev... Also the USERNAME variables still need to be set.

-- MattWilkie - 20 Jan 2003

  • Rename done

-- RD

Richard and Matt, I probably created this topic from the wrong location and used the wrong template. However because this plugin doesn't exist yet I would like to keep this topic named Dev for right now and just use it as a place to work on the real PurplePlugin page over time.

-- GrantBow - 20 Jan 2003

OK, perhaps it is a bit unusual to brainstorm in a topic like this but since there's no plugin to install yet and I want to work on the final documentation that will go in the non-dev topic I feel this approach was best. I will have to learn quite a bit before actually doing this plugin myself. Any pointers and suggestions would be most appreciated.

-- GrantBow - 25 Jan 2003

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