Question

Is there already a way to hand-select topics for book view, e.g. by marking checkboxes?

I have an application display similar to ChangeRequest and I'd like to make it easier to select and print out a user's chosen items, if that's going to be simple for me to organise. If it's too hard or complex I can just say no, but someone else might have done this already?

Environment

TWiki version:	TWikiRelease01Feb2003
TWiki plugins:	DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin
Server OS:	FreeBSD
Web server:	Apache
Perl version:	5.005_03
Client OS:	all
Web Browser:	lynx,ns,ie

-- SueBlake - 22 Sep 2003

Answer

Not that this is an answer, but I have a similar need in that I want to provide a mechanism for users to create a "Virtual View" of a topic parent and all of it's children (with BOOKVIEW), putting it all together in the PRINT skin, thus allowing them to print out the related items and take them home. I have been toying with the following:

• Add a template that will construct a SelectForBookViewBookView from the currently viewed TOPIC
• Use the TreeView plugin to generate the parent and children in BOOKVIEW mode of the current TOPIC
• Display the resulting TOPIC using the VIEW script and PRINT skin

Ideally, this resulting TOPIC would be virtual or transitory - once the user was through with it, it would disappear - I'm not sure how this woul be effected. Alternatively, all resulting TOPICs could be set to a parent called BookView.

Like I said, I have been mentally toying around with this - I could see how your desire to create a list of topics that are selectively viewed in BOOKVIEW form is simply a special case of what I would like to do. Perhaps others will see this discussion and help out.

-- SteveRJones - 22 Sep 2003