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The http://Twiki.org site has pages with tables that addess such thigns as "categories" and the suport status. Things like suport status have a pull-down list of options.

I've set up a "categories" table on my own wiki and there is a page that had the table.

Yes on the Twiki.org site I see pages such as TopicClassification that document and describe the list of options, and thence can have links to -- idea -- a topic that can list everything on that web with that classification.

But I'm wondering if the use of TopicClassification on TWiki.org is automated or if the values in the form have to be maintianed and synchonized by hand?

-- AntonAylward - 19 Dec 2002

Answer

In the case of the Knowledgebase, the choices in the table are defined in WebForm. Likewise, in WebPreferences, the default for new topics is:

-- AnthonPang - 22 Dec 2002

I guess I didn't ask that correctly.

I see al the parts. What I wondered was if adding another item in TopicClassification automatically caused the item to apear in the list on WebForm.

-- AntonAylward - 23 Dec 2002

You can add new items to a "select" field at any time. Existing topics will not be affected when you view the topics, but when you edit an existing topic you can select the new items. The edit screen sees always the current form definition.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Dec 2002

I don't know what it is with me this week, perhaps its the time of year and too much rich food going to my brain ....

Let me ask that again.

Suppose I want that list - the items in the select field - to be generated automatically; i.e. at run time. Can I do something like:

  • A - have the items listed as "bullets" on a topic page. This lets them be documented all together.
  • B - have the items listed as WikiWords on a topic page, perhaps as headings. This would imply that the documentation for each was on a seperate topic page.

I'm sure either can be done with scripts and the latter with some form of , but I'm wondering if there is a cook-book solution in the distribution. I've tried a few possible WikiWords that might describe it, but no sucess.

Perhaps after a few work-outs to rid myself of the holiday excess I might think straight once again so this isn't a priority smile

(and while I'm about it, is there a way to do numbered lists with anything other than numbers?)

-- AntonAylward - 28 Dec 2002

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