Question

Is there a possibility that TWiki users have only Read access to a topic like TWikiPreferences to view raw text? I could image to have a similar page as when I want to edit a topic is locked by an other user. There I have the possibility to view raw data. What must be done to make it possible.

I think that it can be very helpful that users can see how a specific Topic is written to learn from it.

Environment

-- ThomasKurz - 02 Sep 2003

Answer

Click on the "More" link and checkmark "view raw" to view the raw text of a topic without a need to edit it.

You can do the same by appending ?raw=on to any topic's view URL. E.g. for this topic, http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/HowToViewRawText?raw=on

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Sep 2003

I have put the following in twiki.tmpl :

%TMPL:DEF{"viewraw"}%<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">&radic;w3c</a>&nbsp;<a href="%TOPICURL%?raw=on"><img src="%PUBURLPATH%/icn/txt.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" alt="raw text" /></a>%TMPL:END%

view.tmpl-%TMPL:P{"standardfooter"}%
view.tmpl-<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
view.tmpl- <tr>
view.tmpl-  <td valign="top">
view.tmpl:   %TMPL:P{"viewraw"}%
view.tmpl-   Revision %REVINFO% &nbsp;
view.tmpl-   %META{"parent" prefix="<br />Parents: "}%
view.tmpl-  </td>
view.tmpl-  <td width="40%" valign="top">

Note that this adds not only the ability to view the raw text, but also a quick trip to the w3c.org validator for the page.

-- DickFurnas - 05 Dec 2003