SID-02395: using multiple wikiwords to link to one topic

Status:	Asked	TWiki version:	6.1.0	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	CentOs	Last update:	6 years ago

Is it possible (maybe with a plugin) to do the folling:

i have a Topic, say "MeasuringSoftware" and I want to automatically link to that topic when someone types "MeasuringSoftware" but also when he types "MeasuringProgram", "MeasuringSoftwares" or "SomethingIHaveDefinedSomewhere"?

Is such a thing possible?

-- Michael Werber - 2019-03-14

Discussion and Answer

There may be a few ways to do this however one option would be to attach a form to each topic with a field that contains a list of all the search terms you want that topic to appear on. In our example, we'll use the field name: keywords. You would then need to modify your SEARCH to include searching through the keywords formfield.

An example search (untested) could be something like:

%SEARCH{"name~'*%URLPARAM{"keywords"}%*' OR lc(keywords)~(lc('*%URLPARAM{"keywords"}%*'))" type="query" nonoise="on" format="| $topic |"}%

In the example:
lc() changes everything within the brackets to lowercase. If you want a search for "measuringsoftware" to hit on a keyword of "MeasuringSoftware" you'll want to include this.
URLPARAM grabs the values to search for from the URL.
* (asterisk) allows you to find whatever the user searched for anywhere in the formfield. A formfield could be populated with: "MeasuringProgram, MeasuringSoftwares, SomethingIHaveDefinedSomewhere" and including the asterisks allows for that formfield to match on "MeasuringSoftwares".

-- Jani Hamalainen - 2019-03-15

This sounds like a need for a yet-to-be-written SynonymPlugin.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2019-03-15

@Jani Hamalainen If I get you right that would only affect the search-feature, not automatic linking of WikiWords

@Peter Thoeny Yes, that Plugin seems like it's exactly what I'm looking for. Sad that it's not done yes ;-(

-- Michael Werber - 2019-04-02

MichaelWerber: Yes, you are correct.

-- Jani Hamalainen - 2019-04-02

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