Question

This may seem like and extremely trivial question, but no where can I find what defines a "Topic Summary". Perhaps it is buried in the TWiki docs? Thanks

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-- SteveRJones - 29 Jul 2003

Answer

This is not really documented. Basically the first 162 characters of the topic with some manipulation like spam padding and variable expansion. Read the code, file CVSget:lib/TWiki.pm, sub makeTopicSummary.

-- PeterThoeny - 30 Jul 2003

Peter, thanks for the response. I will attempt to extract the info that I need from the topic - I'm still new at this ;->

-- SteveRJones - 01 Aug 2003

There's more discussion on this topic, including alternative options for explicitly defining the topic summary in AllowDesignationOfSummary.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 01 Aug 2003

Very interesting thread -- I think beign able to define section in a more general way can be a very useful feature. I am just now exploring the wizardry behind $pattern and realizing that I simply do not have the regex background that I need.

-- SteveRJones - 05 Aug 2003