Question

Hi. We would like to be able to specify what shows up in the index page under each heading. Is this possible?

• TWiki version: TWiki20010901.zip
• Web server: Apache
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-- DavidHay - 04 Nov 2002

Answer

To the best of my knowledge there is not yet a ready made solution for this. There is some discussion of how it could be implemented at AllowDesignationOfSummary.

I personally just add a short paragraph (~160 characters) at the top of each page which summarizes the topic contents.

-- MattWilkie - 04 Nov 2002

You can also use a regular expression pattern to extract arbitrary content out of a topic. This example extracts the first 60 characters out of the answer of the last five AnsweredQuestions:

Topic:	Answer:
PasswordsNotWorking	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. ...
OopsTemplatesNotShowingAnymore	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. ...
DeletingUsers	To remove a user:...
RevisionSectionsBlankInHistory	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. ...
UserActivationError	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. ...

The pattern in format is $pattern(.*?\-+\++\s*Answer[\s\n\r]*([^\n\r]{1,60}[^\n\r\s]*).*), see details in FormattedSearch.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Nov 2002