My Links

• ATasteOfTWiki - view a short introductory presentation on TWiki for beginners
• WelcomeGuest - starting points on TWiki
• TWikiUsersGuide - complete TWiki documentation, Quick Start to Reference
• Sandbox - try out TWiki on your own
• FanxingMengSandbox - just for me

My Personal Data

Note: if personal data is being stored using a secret database, then it is only visible to the user and to administrators.

My Personal Preferences

Uncomment preferences variables to activate them (remove the #-sign). Help and details on preferences variables are available in TWikiPreferences.

• Show tool-tip topic info on mouse-over of WikiWord links, on or off:
  • #Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = off

Related Topics

• ChangePassword for changing your password
• ChangeEmailAddress for changing your email address
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users
• UserDocumentationCategory is a list of TWiki user documentation
• UserToolsCategory lists all TWiki user tools

Discussion Forum Add-On

• See TWiki:Sandbox.DiscussionForum for an example of the initial prototype
• See TWiki:DiscussionForum for brainstorming and alpha package

Add-On Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this add-on. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the add-on on the server where TWiki is running.

• Install the TWiki:Plugins.CommentPlugin if it's not already installed.
• Download the ZIP files from the Add-on Home (see below)
• Unzip FanxingMeng.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/FanxingMeng.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/FanxingMeng.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  pub/TWiki/FanxingMeng/edge.gif	edge image
  pub/TWiki/FanxingMeng/edge.gif,v	edge image repository

• Unzip DiscussionForum.zip in the data directory of the web you want the DiscussionForumAddOn. Content:

  File:	Description:
  DiscussionForumOverview.txt	gives an overview of 5 articles
  DiscussionForumOverview.txt,v	topic repository
  DiscussionForumTemplate.txt	create and post new articles
  DiscussionForumTemplate.txt,v	topic repository
  DiscussionForumArchiv.txt	shows all posted articles in short form
  DiscussionForumArchiv.txt,v	topic repository
  DiscussionForumCreate.txt	create and post new articles
  DiscussionForumCreate.txt,v	topic repository
  DiscussionForumHead.txt	hold HTML for articles
  DiscussionForumHead.txt,v	topic repository
  DiscussionForumImages.txt	holds images for article-categories
  DiscussionForumImages.txt,v	topic repository

• Upload images for the article-categories in DiscussionForumImages
• Configure categories in DiscussionForumCreate with name of the images uploaded before (see DiscussionForumImages)
• Test if the installation was successful:
  • post an article in DiscussionForumCreate
  • look in DiscussionForumOverview for the article

Plugin Info

Plugin Author:	TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich
Plugin Version:	04 May 2003 (v0.900)
Change History:
04 May 2003:	Initial version
07 Jun 2003:	general restructure of DiscussionForumAddOn, incorporate many ideas of TWiki:Main.PeterThoney
CPAN Dependencies:	none
Other Dependencies:	CommentPlugin
Perl Version:	5.005
License:	GPL
Add-on Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/FanxingMeng
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/FanxingMengDev

Related Topic: TWikiAddOns

-- TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich - 04 May 2003