Question

I'm reading the doc for WorkflowPlugin and am intrigued by references to "document-specific preferences"" such as in this sentence:

This is best set as a document-specific preference setting in the More topic actions screen.

I've not heard of document-specific preferences (other than = * Set= variables in the topic "Edit" screen.

My "More topic actions" screen has no reference to document-specific preferences. Is this a very old idea or a very new one? What's going on?

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-- VickiBrown - 28 Sep 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

I guess you simply missed it. Its position seems to vary between different versions, and it is actually called "settings", but I have it in 4.0.1 and 4.2 beta. For a simple check, see the "More topic actions" of this topic: The very first link is titled "Edit settings for this topic" and links to http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/manage/Support/DocumentSpecificPreferences?action=editSettings . This leads to just another textarea, where you can add preferences in the usual * Set VAR = value format.

Whatever variables you set here will work as preferences for the topic though it is not visible in "normal" view nor edit screens.

-- HaraldJoerg - 29 Sep 2007