SID-02234: TopicList excluding topic names selected by cards

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.2	Perl version:	n/a
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How to a create a list of topics such as %TOPICLIST {topic="-web*"}% i.e. excluding all topics whose name starts with the literal "web"?

tia

-- TWiki Guest - 2016-08-01

Discussion and Answer

Either do a SEARCH, or a TOPICLIST enclosed in a CALCULATE.

SEARCH example:

%SEARCH{ "." scope="topic" type="regex" excludetopic="Web*" format="$topic" separator=", " nonoise="on" }%

TOPICLIST example:

%CALCULATE{$LISTIF($NOT($EXACT($FIND(Web, $item), 1)), %TOPICLIST{ separator=", " }%)}%

Details in VarSEARCH, VarTOPICLIST, VarCALCULATE.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2016-08-02

Thanks, gosh that is such a hard way to do such a simple thing.

-- TWiki Guest - 2016-08-02

SEARCH in action (pasted from above):

%SEARCH{ "." scope="topic" type="regex" excludetopic="Web*" format="$topic" separator=", " nonoise="on" }%

TOPICLIST in action (pasted from above):

%CALCULATE{$LISTIF($NOT($EXACT($FIND(Web, $item), 1)), %TOPICLIST{ separator=", " }%)}%

-- TWiki Guest - 2016-08-02

$FIND does not appear to be documented (based on the twiki.org search). Are $Variables also %variables%?

-- TWiki Guest - 2016-08-02

Found it, its a plugin, SpreadSheetPlugin

-- TWiki Guest - 2016-08-02

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