Feedback for RandomReplacePlugin

This plugin was created for my personal use in an RPG wiki I use to keep track of information on my campaign. It is useful to me as I have lists of NPC names, features, traits and quirks that I can quickly add using the plugin. I'm not sure how much use it would be in other twikis.

-- ScottParrish - 27 Oct 2005

Hi Scott. Could you descibe in the first paragraph of RandomReplacePlugin what the plugin does and when it can be useful? For instance, what is a RPG TWiki?

-- ArthurClemens - 27 Oct 2005

I re-wrote the intro and I hope its more clear now.

• yes, thanks. -- ArthurClemens - 27 Oct 2005

-- ScottParrish - 27 Oct 2005

I think the killer-app for this for twiki in the workplace is: the Coffee Manager !

(i.e.: fill in the names of the people you share a room with. when the page is refreshed, one is randomly selected. That's the one to get the next round of coffee.)

-- JosMaccabiani - 27 Oct 2005

Coffee manager would be very doable. It would require a small amount of re-factoring and a new tag style. Since it would be reading/parsing the data/file or topic much more often, caching that in a more permanant matter would be desirable.

In the easy manner, it would simply replace the tag with the random selection after every view, so you and your cube-mates would probably not see the same result.

But you might be able to save the result used, give it a timer in the rule definition, and so it would offer the same result to everyone until the timer is up.

If this would be truly useful I don't mind writing it.

-- ScottParrish - 27 Oct 2005

Thanks Scott for sharing this Plugin with the TWikiCommunity

I made some changes to the Plugin topic, feel free to take it into the next release:

• Escaped link to itself
• Shorter SHORTDESCRIPTION
• Escaped ##Tags## with #<nop>#Tags## to prevent firing off on Plugin topic save
• Use %TWIKIWEB%.SomeThing instead of TWiki.SomeThing
• Added signature

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How about measuring and documenting the PluginBenchmarks?

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Nov 2005