Question

Hi, I'd like to list all the attachments of one of my topics on my main page (in a bullet list).

On the topic page itself there already is such a list of all the attached files, but to copy and paste the code to the main page doesn't work because the % ATTACHURL % variable is resolved incorrectly.

The same goes for formatted search (with a regular expression that prints everything between the first bullet and the next double newline).

A simple perl s/% ATTACHURL %/MyTopic/g; would do the job, but is there any way to include perl code into the TWiki syntax?

Or is there a different way to list attachments of another topic?

Thanks for help, Tamara

Environment

-- TamaraUlrich - 29 Nov 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.

If you already have a formatted list in another topic, then the easiest way would be to wrap that list in a named section:

%STARTSECTION{"attachmentlist"}%
   * First attachment is %ATTACHURL%/attachment1
   * Second attachment is %ATTACHURL%/attachment1
%ENDSECTION{"attachmentlist"}%

In your main page, you then can include that list:

%INCLUDE{"MyTopic" section="attachmentlist"}%

You could even pick the attachments from TWikis automatic attachment table with FormQueryPlugin - See HowToGetFileAttachmentDetails for a similar example, or FormQueryPluginTutorial for the general procedure.

-- HaraldJoerg - 29 Nov 2006

Not sure if %ATTACHURL%/attachment1 works if included into another topic. In case it does not work, use %PUBURL%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%/attachment1. See FileAttachment docs.

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Nov 2006

%ATTACHURL%/attachment1 actually did work in the include statement. The problem was that I need that bullet list for the TreeBrowserPlugin, which requires lists on different levels (i.e. with 3,6,9,... spaces before the aterisk). The list that I got from the include statement has only three spaces (level one list) and I couldn't find out how to add more.

So I installed the FormQueryPlugin and used the following code to create an attachment-tree:

%FORMQUERY{name=LevelOne search="name='LevelOneTopic'" extract="attachments"}%
%FORMQUERY{name=LevelTwo search="name='LevelTwoTopic'" extract="attachments"}%

%TREEBROWSER{"file" title="*Example Tree*" shared="left"}%
   * *Level One*
      * *Level Two*
%SHOWQUERY{query=LevelTwo  header="" footer="" format="         * [[%PUBURL%/%WEB%/$_up.topic/$name][$comment]]"}%
%SHOWQUERY{query=LevelOne  header="" footer="" format="      * [[%PUBURL%/%WEB%/$_up.topic/$name][$comment]]"}%

-- TamaraUlrich - 30 Nov 2006

related:

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

-- VickiBrown - 25 Mar 2008

See also AttachmentListPlugin.

-- ArthurClemens - 25 Mar 2008