Question

I am trying to build hierarchial topic lists (e.g. like seen in forums) and wanted to use the META:PARENTTOPIC and a METASEARCH to search for the childtopics. However, this does not seem to work at all - the meta data has been inserted correctly (tested with raw=debug) but the search does not return any results at all

• TWiki version: 01 Sep 2001
• Web server: Apache 1.3.20
• Server OS: Redhat 7.1
• Web browser: -
• Client OS: -

-- PeterRietzler - 05 Nov 2001

Answer

This is because META:PARENTTOPIC is only expanded in the templates, not the topic text. This should be fixed.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Jan 2002

Is this going to be fixed soon ? I can only assume it isn't yet, as I tried a %METASEARCH{...}% with the latest beta, and nothing came back.

It really would be a useful feature, allowing for all sorts of Hierarchical(sp?) types of document, especially in collaborative books etc.

-- MichaelKearns - 03 Jan 2003

Sorry, not in BeijingRelease. SimplifyInternalMetaDataHandling needs to be done first.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Jan 2003

I'm not sure if this is related, but we're looking for a way to get a web topic list in hierarchical view, using the PARENTTOPIC information. Has a plugin been done to do this?

Later I've just discovered TreePlugin which appears to do what we want. We'll give it a try.... Yes, that does the trick!

-- HughGibson - 28 Jan 2003

The koala skin uses metasearch in oopsmore.koala.tmpl to display the child topics.

%METASEARCH{type="parent" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title=""}%

But the search does not return any results if the ALLOWWEBVIEW variable is set in the WebPreferences.

-- NorbertWindrich - 28 Apr 2005