Question

I formulated a formatted search I like so much I want to make it available to everyone using TWiki at my site. I'm sure I'm not the first to work out the search, which isn't the issue here -- it returns a bulleted list of all topics whose names have the current topic's name as a prefix:

%SEARCH{ "^%TOPIC%[A-Za-z0-9]" scope="topic" regex="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" format="   * [[$topic]]" }%

I thought I could just set a variable to it on my site's TWikiPreferences, but I can't seem to figure out a formulation that works given the various levels of evaluation involved, the HTML characters, etc. I want to be able to put in a page something like:

More specific discussions can be found at:
%SUBTOPICS%

where %SUBTOPICS% expands to the search expression above's results relative to the current page. What am I missing?

• TWiki version: Dec 2001
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-- MitchellModel - 13 Nov 2002

Answer

One thing to try is putting the search into a page that is then %INCLUDE%d into the main page. Not quite as easy to write but still encapsulates the complexity of the search text.

-- RichardDonkin - 14 Nov 2002

OK, good enough. Thanks. Seems to work well, and %INCLUDE{TWiki.SubtopicList}% isn't much worse than %SUBTOPICS%. -- MitchellModel - 21 Nov 2002