SID-01748: Table of Contents on every topic view

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	CategoryTemplates	Server OS:	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, kernel 3.0.73	Last update:	12 years ago

I am new to TWiki and have recently successfully migrated my existing corporate IT wiki from MediaWiki to TWiki as part of a continuous improvement initiative. MediaWiki has the feature of automatically generating a table of contents for each page. In TWiki I can generate a table of contents for a topic by explicitly adding %TOC% to the topic content.

Is there a way I can have a Table of Contents automatically generated for each topic when viewed without editing the topic to add %TOC%?

I have a custom view template which incorporates the BreadCrumbsPlugin and RedirectPlugin. However, adding %TOC% to it does not seem to work. Another possibility that I haven't tried it is to create a custom edit template for new topics which adds the %TOC%.

I have searched for an answer to this but could not find one.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

-- Andrew Benedek - 2013-06-26

Discussion and Answer

In your custom view template, have you tried this?

%TOC{ "%BASETOPIC%" web="%BASEWEB%" depth="3" }%

See details in VarTOC2.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-06-26

Thanks Peter, I tried your suggestion but it didn't work either. My SKIN setting is myskin, tagme, topmenu, pattern.

Below is part of my custom view template:

%TMPL:DEF{"mytoc"}%%TOC{ "%BASETOPIC%" web="%BASEWEB%" depth="3" }%%TMPL:END%

%TMPL:DEF{"contentheader"}%

<div class="tagmetags"> Tags: %TAGME{ tpaction="%URLPARAM{tpaction}%" web="%WEB%" tag="%URLPARAM{tag}%" }%, view all tags, search for tags </div>

<div class="patternTop">%TMPL:P{"breadcrumb"}%</div>

<div class="patternTop">%BREADCRUMBS{type="path" separator=" » "}%</div>

<div class="patternTop">%TMPL:P{"redirectedfrom"}%</div>

<div class="patternTop">%TMPL:P{"mytoc"}%</div>

I am here 1

%TMPL:END%

-- Andrew Benedek - 2013-06-27

I checked - there was a bug/optimization that prevented the TOC from working properly if present in a skin. This is now fixed, you need to apply the patch listed at TWikibug:Item7286.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-06-27

Thanks Peter, much appreciated. Patching using the patch tool failed for me on hunk 4 probably because I did not have the patch for Item6864, but managed to merge it manually. Thanks again.

-- Andrew Benedek - 2013-06-28

I am glad it worked out for you.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-06-28

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