The TWiki Plugin API allows the TWiki to gather information from other sources such as databases. For example the
PeerPlugin uses a database to store topic ranking information. The
LocalCityTimePlugin extracts time information from another web site.
TWiki topic metadata can be used for collecting information. The
InlineSearch topic discusses how metadata can be gathered for bug tracking. A TWiki Plugin could process this information to create different views of the data.
For simple data presentation tasks, there is a
SpreadSheetPlugin.
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KevinHudson - 04 Nov 2001