SID-00823: How to Alphabetize TOC

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Hi,

Is there a way to alphabetize the TOC?

I found a link that show how to alphabetize the TOPICS and that seems to work, but I was just curious if you can do it by Topics?

Like at the top of my Twiki Pages, I will do the %TOC% and that will show the individual topics, yet that are not in alphabetical order.

%TOC%
%TOPICLIST{"   * [[%INCLUDINGWEB%.$name][$name]]"}%

This shows my TOC at the top and then under that is a complete alphabetizeation of all the things, but... I was just curious how to get the TOC in alphabetical order?

Thanks, Brian

-- BrianTinsley - 2010-05-03

Discussion and Answer

Sorting a TOC is not directly supported. I think it is an unusual case. What is your use case?

As a workaround you can do a multiple="on" type="regex" search to create a table of content via a %SEARCH instead of a %TOC.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-03

Let's try that out with some headings in this page:

A Heading

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Z Heading

Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

G Heading

Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

M Heading

Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

TOC With SEARCH, CALC

This gets a little tricky because we need to build an list of headings in a search, remember that in a SpreadSheetPlugin variable, then manipulate that list to sort it and to build the proper anchor link. We are using some spreadsheet magic with $LISTMAP(), $TRANSLATE() and $SUBSTITUTE() to mimic building the anchor name from a heading string. This is not perfect, so some TOC links to headings might not work.

View the raw text to see the source.

Details at VarSEARCH, FormattedSearch, RegularExpression, SpreadSheetPlugin

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-03

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