SID-01870: Searching for webs

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.0	Perl version:	5
Category:	TopMenuSkin	Server OS:	RHEL5	Last update:	12 years ago

I am aware of VarWEBLIST but cannot work out how to search for webs starting with a letter. Any ideas if this is possible?

To explain, we are upgrading from TWiki4 to TWiki6. We have over 80 active webs so would like a home menu which has alphabetical categories and corresponding submenus listing the webs i.e.

• Webs A-C
  • Apple
  • Banana
  • Beans
  • Carrot
• Webs D-F
  • Dates
  • Figs
• Webs G-I *.........

Would like the submenus listing the webs to be generated dynamically either through the WEBLIST variable or via search.

Is this possible?

-- Seeta Patel - 2014-02-10

Discussion and Answer

Two things need to be done to accomplish what you want:

1. Create an indented web list grouped by alphabet
2. Show the indented web in the Home menu

1. Create an indented web list grouped by alphabet:

The first part can be done with VarWEBLIST and a somewhat complicated VarCALCULATE. The complication comes from the fact that the SpreadSheetPlugin eats leading spaces in parameters, whereas a bullet list requires leading spaces.

Here is an example showing the TWiki.org webs bucketized by alphabet:

• B webs:
  • Blog
• C webs:
  • Codev
• M webs:
  • Main
• P webs:
  • Plugins
• S webs:
  • Sandbox
  • Support
• T webs:
  • TWiki
  • TWiki01
  • TWiki02
  • TWiki03
  • TWiki04
  • TWiki04x01
  • TWiki04x02
  • TWiki04x03
  • TWiki05x00
  • TWiki05x01
  • TWiki06x00
  • TWiki06x01
• W webs:
  • WikiWed

(Look at the raw text to see how this works.)

You could use the TreeBrowserPlugin to get multi-level menus, e.g. a collapseable tree.

2. Show the indented web in the Home menu:

The TopMenuPlugin currently does not support indented menu items, so you cannot show the indented bullet list as menu items. You could hire a TWiki consultant if this feature is important to you. This is a good way to support the open source TWiki community.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-02-10

Thanks for the prompt reply Peter.

-- Seeta Patel - 2014-02-10

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