Question (Sorry for the topic misspelling; I don't have permission to rename)

I want to be able to search a web with a RegularExpression and then report multiple matches from each topic. The use case is marking issues in task lists and specifications and then reporting all issues in another document.

For example, I have two topics Foo1 and Foo2.

Topic Foo1: some text

• ISSUE: Bar is a problem

Topic Foo2: some text

• ISSUE: Mary thinks that Baz is going to be late

• ISSUE: Quux

I want to be able to have a top-level page that gathers all issues and reports it like so:

• Foo1 Issues:
  • Bar is a problem
• Foo2 Issues:
  • Mary thinks that Baz is going to be late
  • Quux

I've gotten close to this with FormattedSearch, but can't ever find the 2nd match (or greater) in a Topic. I've poked around a bit and all search discussion seems to point to getting lists of topics and/or extracting one match.

Or am I making a RookieTWikiMistake?

(I didn't want to crack the perl until I was sure that this feature, which seems obvious, wasn't already available.)

• TWiki version: 01Dec2001
• Web server: apache
• Server OS: RedHatLinux 7.1
• Web browser: IE5.x/IE6
• Client OS: Win2K

-- DavisWFrank - 06 Jun 2002

Answer

You cannot use FormattedSearch because it only extracts the first occurance of a topic. Have a look at the ActionTrackerPlugin that does queries with multiple hits per topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Jun 2002