Question

Greetings and Salutations,

I assert, based on TWiki:Support.IncludeFailsForPrefs and TWiki:Support.FileOfWebVariables if I want to set a Preference for NatSkin in a Topic INCLUDED by TWikiPreferences I need to use %CALC{$SET(...)}% somewhere for it to be effective.

Assuming my assertion is true

Please, would one of you kind hearted Gurus, tell me extactly where to put the CALC and at least one example setting a NatSkin Preference. I have successfully made NatSkin to work as advertised but INCLUDING a Topic with Set statements dont seem to work.

I am just a little lost exactly where and how to apply the CALC function to set a given Preference when doing so with an INCLUDED Topic.

I think NatSkin and INCLUDEs are key elements to what I have in mind to make it easy for a Neophite to customize the look of his/her TWiki. Of course I could be all wet, what the hell do I know, I am new.

Thanks in advance.

Environment

-- BreckAuten - 23 Dec 2006

Answer

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The topic Main.TWikiPreferences is explicitly intended to hold site-specific customisation for your TWiki. So why not simply set the variables within that topic, instead of including an extra topic?

-- HaraldJoerg - 23 Dec 2006

I was thinking about enhancing the NatSkinBrowser and use a RedDot like plugin to modify INCLUDED TOPICS that change prefs w/o the User usng Set statements. This is what I am thinking.

However, inlight of this topic, I plan on looking at MultiEditPlugin for the kind of thing I want to do. I don't exactly know what that is yet. I am kind a burn out at the moment just gettng TWiki running on my Win2k server under apache.

cheers.

-- BreckAuten - 24 Dec 2006

AND Merry Christmas to All and a goodnite

-- BreckAuten - 24 Dec 2006