SID-00070: Custom View for Document

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.3	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	CategoryDeployment	Server OS:	RHEL 5.2	Last update:	16 years ago

My users need to create a series of "Reports". These reports, when finished, will create a single document. The reports are broken down into chapter like sections, with levels of subsections. There's also a requirement to create a cross section, ie, get a single document with the content of a section from all reports.

My initial idea was to Create a bulleted list of WikiWords that will link to an individual Topic for each section. Then use something that parses out the bulleted list and include the content from that Topic. But I'm having all sorts of problems with this.

I'm looking for help in figuring out the best way to achieve this using TWiki.

any suggestions?

-- RayWadkins - 30 Jan 2009

Discussion and Answer

> My initial idea was to Create a bulleted list of WikiWords that will link to an individual Topic for each section.

That's exactly how we did it. We have a weekly team meeting agenda/minutes in TWiki, with a section entitled link 'Status Reports' with each team member listed. Under their names (using a template of course) is a link to Create Report (or 'Edit', if it already exists). The individual report topics have the user's name and date in the title, and is INCLUDEd into the meeting topic.

The final flourish, to ensure that people don't try to rewrite history, is a cron job to create a PDF snapshot of the composite page, with the GenPDFAddon.

Also, a user's home page has a list of their recent status reports (the other dimension you mentioned), something that would be hard to do if all the reports were part of the same meeting topic.

-- SeanCMorgan - 13 Feb 2009

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