Question

Can I selectively exclude a certain part of a topic from beeing recognized as changed by editing in order to prevent a new revision of that topic?

Background: I want to use the EditTablePlugin with the SpreadSheetPlugin to provide a technical design calculator for users. I found, that each use of this editable table will generate a new topic revision. I know about the possibility to do a quite save, but this would also increase the revision count.

Environment

-- JensHofmann - 19 Oct 2006

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.

PopUpCalculatorAddOn provides a scientific calculator, but I guess that's not what you want cause you mention SSP. Maybe MultiEditPlugin can be of some use in encapsulating editable sections. BTW, what's the problem with increased revision anyway?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 19 Oct 2006

No, I want to provide the calculation hard-coded in a table. I guess MultiEditPlugin will also increase revision if something changes within that topic? Generally I have no problem with upcounting revisions but it looks not very useful for me when each usage of such a spreadsheet table is stored in the system.

-- JensHofmann - 20 Oct 2006

I would not worry about many revisions, you can have 10K or more.

Idea: Instead of an EditTable, use an HTML form in your table that asks for some parameters. Make CALCs depend on the form fields via URLPARAMs. See WebSearch for a working example.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Oct 2006

If you get that working, could you possibly share that with the TWikiCommunity as a sample application listed in Sandbox.WebHome?

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Oct 2006

I will think about creating an HTML form. Because I'm not really familiar with HTML programming I will consider as workaround an attached spreadsheet file as well.

-- JensHofmann - 24 Oct 2006