Question

Hello

Can anyone explain me the difference between TWiki-webs and TWiki-topics ?

Topic = Wiki-site?

I'm not sure if i understand the hierarchical structure of Twiki exactly ...

Environment

-- SvenKaenzig - 13 Jul 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

A topic in TWiki is simply one page - like this one. A web is a collection of topics, like a directory is a collection of files. The Support Web is a TWiki-Web, as is the TWiki Web. Some tools (e.g. search, change notification) work on one web per default, so webs can be used to serve different audiences, or different purposes.

-- HaraldJoerg - 13 Jul 2008

Thank you ... and there are only webs and sites (topics)? aren't there any other sections between web and topic ?

-- SvenKaenzig - 13 Jul 2008

Hmmm... What are you missing? TWiki offers a couple of more or less formal ways to collect topics to "categories", which could serve as something between a web and a topic:

• Tags (TagMePlugin),
• Searches (VarSEARCH and FormattedSearch) can be used to categorize different things:
  • Topics with a Form (TWikiForms),
  • Topics linking to some "root" topic (Backlinks, available from the "More topic actions" link)
  • Topics which have the same parent (TWiki's "parent" relationship is another way to build trees within a web)

-- HaraldJoerg - 13 Jul 2008