Cook Books and Recipies

Both newbies and experienced Twiki users can profit from the thoughts and ideas of others.

I'd like to start an anchor topic where various applications and "neat tricks" and useful techniques can be collected together.

Search Cook Book

At SearchCookbook

Web Form Cook Book

Start with ExampleWebFormApplications

More examples and applications would be nice.

One thing I've found useful is to have a primary field in all the forms in all the webs, something like "TopicType". That is a wiki word which leads to the topic that describes and lists what the various values are.

Is it possible to have a %SEARCH on that topic to extract those values so that when you are filling in the form during an edit or when you are searching by topic or when you are creating a new topic and want to choose the type or the template associated with the type, you can have the select list?

Table Of Contents Tricks

TOC in a box

I'm sure it can be dressed up in various ways, shadow, playing with text decoration, margins etc.? Can anyone suggest different ways to make it stand out?

<table border="1" bgcolor="%WEBBGCOLOR%" align="right">
   <tr><td>%TOC%</td></tr>
</table>

-- AntonAylward - 28 Oct 2004

TOC by Macro

By defining two macros in TwikiPreferences? they are available to all the other webs. Use these to make your TOC as custom as you like.

In TWikiPreferences:

      * Set STARTSIDEBAR = <div .... whatever features you like ... >
      * Set STOPSIDEBAR =  </div>

You can then make much more complex "TOC" than the traditional one. Add things like the top topics, a create form, etc.

-- AntonAylward - 28 Oct 2004