Question

Hi,

I have a file attached to a topic and I would like to display the attachment's comments within the body of the topic.

Is this possible?

Environment

-- BehrouzBayat - 07 Jul 2006

Answer

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Looks like a job for FormQueryPlugin. The FormQueryPluginTutorial which has an example which comes close to your usage.

-- HaraldJoerg - 07 Jul 2006

TWiki does not support that at the moment. Not until ContentAccessSyntax is implemented.

In the mean time you could write a simple Plugin that pulls the info and displays it via a variable, such as:

%ATTACHINFO{ format="$comment" file="Foobar.doc" }%

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Jul 2006

Peter - no need for a new plugin, an existing one will do. I admit that FormQueryPlugin is a bit of overkill, but nevertheless:

%FORMQUERY{name=Allatts search="name='%TOPIC%'" extract="attachments"}%
%SHOWQUERY{query=Allatts header="|*Name*|*Comment*|" format="|$name|$comment|"}%

-- HaraldJoerg - 07 Jul 2006

related:

• Support.CanIShowEveryAttachmentInAWeb
• Support.HowToGetFileAttachmentDetails
• Support.ListAttachmentFilesOfAnotherTopic
• Support.SearchingForFileAttachments

-- VickiBrown - 25 Mar 2008

See also AttachmentListPlugin.

-- ArthurClemens - 25 Mar 2008