Question

Is it OK to change TWIKITOOLNAME to a locally meaningful name? (Is that why the variable is there?) Is that expected or just acceptable or discouraged?

I tried to start a discussion of this in Codev (see ChangingTWikiToolName), where I provide some details, but didn't get any nibbles. Maybe it was too obvious a question with a very straightforward answer, and I should have asked it here?

Oct. 10: I've now seen a few TWiki sites which appear to have changed TWIKITOOLNAME the way I was envisioning. If this is recommended or acceptable, what is the best way to change it? In the Dec 2001 release TWIKITOOLNAME is not defined on TWikiPreferences, but I could certainly add it there. (I can't see how the other webs did it because I can't edit their TWikiPreferences without joining there TWiki and logging in, which I don't really want to do just to look at the page.)

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001
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• Web browser:
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-- MitchellModel - 09 Oct 2002

Answer

Yes it is OK to do that, thus it being a variable, but you access it from your TWiki.cfg file (in the bin/lib directory) not from your TWiki preferences page.

The only cases that this might cause a problem is if any page assumes that WIKITOOLNAME is the site name or the documenation web (which could happen, but would be very easy to fix).

BTW: You don't need to subscribe to a twiki site to examine the topic raw text, just add ?raw=true to the end of the URL.

-- EdgarBrown - 12 Oct 2002

Thank you -- that's just the information I needed. BTW is very cool; thanks. Is there someplace where hints like this are listed ? There should be.

-- MitchellModel - 14 Oct 2002

TWikiRelease01Dec2001 defines the tool name in lib/TWiki.cfg, later relreases like TWikiBetaRelease define it in the TWikiPreferences. Reviewing the site-level preferences is one step of the installation, so admins should dicover that.

-- PeterThoeny - 14 Oct 2002