Question

I've tried the following. it seems that the variables are not expanded as i expect or I'm not writing the wiki code correctly. HELP!!!

%WEBLIST{"<li>[[$name.%HOMETOPIC%][%VAR{"SITEMAPWHAT" web=$name}%]]</li>" webs="public"}%

%WEBLIST{"<li>[[$name.%HOMETOPIC%][$name.%SITEMAPWHAT%]]</li>" webs="public"}%

the last one looks to be the most promising.. but it picks up the last SITMAPWHAT for all iterations..

Environment

-- StevenPokrandt - 13 May 2005

Answer

Steven - I spent a little time trying to figure out what the problem was but have not been successful (yet). I did figure out a couple of things:

• In your second example, %SITEMAPWHAT% is being expanded expanded for the current web (i.e. Support), not the last web in the search.
• To get SITEMAPWHAT for each web in the list, you'd need to use the VAR variable (like in your first example). However, I can't get that approach to work and don't know why. I tried using single quotes and "$qname" in VAR but no luck.

I'll continue to explore this.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 13 May 2005

The reason why the first version does not work is that VAR is evaluated before WEBLIST. The solution is somewhat complex. It could be done with a SEARCH in a WEBLIST. Or with a CALC that iterates over the list of webs returned by WEBLIST:

<ul>
%CALC{$LISTJOIN($sp, $LISTMAP(<li>[[$item.%HOMETOPIC%][$item]]: $NOP(%)VAR{"SITEMAPWHAT" 
web="$item"}$NOP(%)</li>, %WEBLIST{"$name" webs="public" separator=", " }%))}%
</ul>

• Blog: Blog of the TWiki.org community
• Codev: TWiki development: the core collaboration zone for the TWiki Project.
• Main: TWiki home with users and groups for access control
• Plugins: Repository for TWiki Plugins, Skins and Add-Ons.
• Sandbox: Sandbox test area. Use this workspace to try out TWiki.
• Support: Tech support for the TWiki collaboration platform.
• TWiki: TWiki documentation, welcome, registration and other starting points
• TWiki01: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 01-Dec-2001
• TWiki02: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 01-Feb-2003
• TWiki03: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 01-Sep-2004
• TWiki04: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.0
• TWiki04x01: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.1
• TWiki04x02: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.2
• TWiki04x03: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.3
• TWiki05x00: Official documentation of the TWiki-5.0 Release
• TWiki05x01: Official documentation of the TWiki-5.1 Release

There is a catch: The links in the SITEMAPWHAT do not get prefixed by the web name. This can be corrected by specifying a Web.TopicName link for each link in SITEMAPWHAT.

-- PeterThoeny - 14 May 2005

Or you could just do this:

%WEBLIST{"   * [[$name.%HOMETOPIC%]]: %$markerVAR{\"SITEMAPWHAT\" web=$qname}$marker%" webs="public"}%

• Blog.WebHome: Blog of the TWiki.org community
• Codev.WebHome: TWiki development: the core collaboration zone for the TWiki Project.
• Main.WebHome: TWiki home with users and groups for access control
• Plugins.WebHome: Repository for TWiki Plugins, Skins and Add-Ons.
• Sandbox.WebHome: Sandbox test area. Use this workspace to try out TWiki.
• Support.WebHome: Tech support for the TWiki collaboration platform.
• TWiki.WebHome: TWiki documentation, welcome, registration and other starting points
• TWiki01.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 01-Dec-2001
• TWiki02.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 01-Feb-2003
• TWiki03.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 01-Sep-2004
• TWiki04.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.0
• TWiki04x01.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.1
• TWiki04x02.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.2
• TWiki04x03.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki Release 4.3
• TWiki05x00.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki-5.0 Release
• TWiki05x01.WebHome: Official documentation of the TWiki-5.1 Release

-- SamHasler - 14 May 2005

That is much easier Sam! Did not think of using $marker as a NOP.

-- PeterThoeny - 14 May 2005

I suppose I should confess that I copied the technique from TWiki.WebLeftBarWebsList which is included in all the WebLeftBars.

-- SamHasler - 14 May 2005