Question

I would like to make a dynamic site tree (who links to who) using SEARCH. The FormattedSearch topic explains how to do this in reverse (i.e. who is linked to by who), but I would like to do it forward.

I can say it in english, but cannot build the regex to do it.

The outer search does this: It searches every topic in the current web for a regex that builds a WikiWord (i.e. [A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]?).

Presumably every page matches since they have a parent, or a link to the WebChanges topic, etc (unless you are using the print or plain skin).

The I think I need a nested search, but now I get lost...

-- KenMankoff - 10 May 2004

Answer

When you figure it out let us know! I've been using TreePlugin but the overhead of the plugin is horrendous. Peter's RenderListPlugin can then take your output and turn it into a pretty hierarchical "map". I, too, have played around with METASEARCH but never figured out how to make the nesting work.

-- SteveRJones - 11 May 2004

It might be possible to create a tree of all topics in a web with SEARCH, but the performance would not be good. This sounds more like a new Plugin, see related discussions in RenderListPluginDev. Or use the heavy weight TreePlugin.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jul 2004

One of the guys at my work wrote a script that makes a Site tree - it gets run every night.... I have to do a few things to get it working again as I changed twiki versions and servers under neath it, but I'll post it when i have time

-- SvenDowideit - 03 Jul 2004