Question

Hello, I'd like to list the topics of the current web in its WebHome, but only those topics that are custom made.

I don't actually need the topics starting with Web...(except for WebPreferences, WebLeftBar) in my newly created webs, so I guess deleting them would do what I want...Is this a good idea?

I believe hiding them in the topic list would be better, so they are still there if needed. I don"t want to restrict access or anything, I'd just like to have a list where there's only the relevant information showing - and in this case that's only the newly created topics that don't come with the installation.

Is there some kind of variable I could use?

Regards, Anne

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-- EichelhardtAnne - 25 Sep 2008

Answer

There is no built-in solution, but here is mine: List all the "system" topics in a variable in your Main.TWikiPreferences, e.g:

• Set SYSTEMTOPICS = WebAtom,WebChanges,WebCreateNewTopic,WebIndex,WebLeftBar,WebNotify,WebPreferences,WebRss,WebSearch,WebSearchAdvanced,WebStatistics,WebTopicList

Note: I built the above as the list of all default topics in the data/_default web, except WebHome since it is typically modified by users to include actual contents. Adapt to your case.

Then, in your %SEARCH expressions, use the parameter excludetopic="%SYSTEMTOPICS%"

Variant: you may want to make the definition be:

• Set SYSTEMTOPICS = %WEBSYSTEMTOPICS%,WebAtom,WebChanges,WebCreateNewTopic,WebIndex,WebLeftBar,WebNotify,WebPreferences,WebRss,WebSearch,WebSearchAdvanced,WebStatistics,WebTopicList
• Set WEBSYSTEMTOPICS =

This way, you can add web-specific topics to the excluded list by defining WEBSYSTEMTOPICS locally in webs.

-- ColasNahaboo - 25 Sep 2008

That's a good trick!

Here are some more options: HowToEditWebTopicList

-- SeanCMorgan - 25 Sep 2008

Thank you, this works very well!

-- EichelhardtAnne - 26 Sep 2008

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