Question

[ My apologies if this is a duplicate. I just looked in the SupportStatus categories, and didn't see my question listed in any of them. ]

Is there anyway to create a subweb? I.e. something like Twiki.Web1.Web2? It's really be helpful for my group if we could structure things in a hierarchy deeper than one level.

I tried searching around the documentation, and it seemed like HierarchicallyNestedTwikiWebs would solve my problem. I contacted Pete Nixon and he let me know it looks like they weren't rolled into the core, but that WebForms might solve my problem. I spent some more time surfing about them, but they don't seem to actually accomplish it.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks!

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-- WilliamReardon - 13 May 2003

Answer

Yes. See ManagingWebs#Hierarchical_Webs.

-- DougClaar - 08 Aug 2006

I have a vague recollection that if you put a subdirectory under an existing web, it might work as a subweb. If you have a TWiki installed you might want to try it and see what happens.

In addition, there are quite a few ways of organizing pages that may provide some of the functionality you are looking for.

One is via the bread crumb trail (parent/child pages). Watch the top of TWiki pages as you surf.

Another is a naming convention, with a prefix, suffix, or embedded key word, and then an "embedded search". See the AbiWord FAQ for an example.

There may be some other approaches on Wikilearn.WaysToOrganizePagesOnTWiki

-- RandyKramer - 13 May 2003

See the KoalaSkin which provides this feature as navigation & search aids without needing to modify the TWiki core... You can try it live at http://koala.ilog.fr/wiki

-- ColasNahaboo - 14 May 2003

Not sure if this answers your question: At work we have over 10K page changes per month and 100 webs. We do not have a need for sub webs. However we rely a lot on TWikiForms to organize content, and on the topic parenting feature with BreadCrumbs to organize topics hierarchically within a web.

For representing structure see TreePlugin, TouchGraphAddOn, WebDOTPlugin, WebMap.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 May 2003