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Feature Proposal: Categorize TWiki Variables & TWiki Variables Wizard

Motivation

The latest TWiki-5.1 release has over 170 TWikiVariables - it can be difficult to find a suitable variable for one's needs. There is already a search function, but it could help if one can browse and search by category.

Description and Documentation

  • Define a fixed list of categories in the TWikiVariables topic.
  • Add a new "Category" bullet to all TWiki Variables topic; add appropriate category or categories to each TWiki Variables topic.
At a later stage, the raw & WYSIWYG editors can give more help on variables bucketized by categories.

Proposed categories:

A category item contains one or more keywords separated by slash. All categories can be retrieved via %INCLUDE{ "%SYSTEMWEB%.TWikiVariablesSearch" section="categories" }% and then with a %GET{twVarCategories}%, which returns a comma-space delimited list of the categories.

The VarXXXX variables doc topics should only use the categories defined in TWikiVariablesSearch.

Variable List

VarACTIVATEDPLUGINS:

VarADDTOHEAD: VarALLVARIABLES: VarAQUA: VarATTACHURLPATH: VarATTACHURL: VarAUTHREALM: VarAUTOCOMPLETE: VarBASETOPIC: VarBASEWEB: VarBB2: VarBB3: VarBB4: VarBB: VarBLACK: VarBLUE: VarBROWN: VarBR: VarBULLET: VarCALC: VarCALCULATE: VarCARET: VarCHART: VarCOMMENT: VarCONTENTMODE: VarDASHBOARD: VarDATETIME: VarDATE: VarDISPLAYTIME2: VarDISPLAYTIME: VarEDITACTION: VarEDITTABLE: VarENCODE: VarENDBG: VarENDCOLOR: VarENDSECTION: VarENTITY: VarENV: VarEXLINK: VarFAILEDPLUGINS: VarFORMFIELD: VarGAUGE: VarGET: VarGMTIME2: VarGMTIME: VarGRAY: VarGREEN: VarGROUPS: VarHEADLINES: VarHIDE: VarHOMETOPIC: VarHTTPHOST: VarHTTPS: VarHTTP: VarH: VarICON: VarICONURLPATH: VarICONURL: VarIF: VarINCLUDE: VarINCLUDINGTOPIC: VarINCLUDINGWEB: VarI: VarJIRA: VarJQENDTABPANE: VarJQENDTAB: VarJQTABPANE: VarJQTAB: VarKINOSEARCH: VarLANGUAGES: VarLANGUAGE: VarLIME: VarLOCALSITEPREFS: VarLOGIN: VarLOGINURL: VarLOGOUT: VarLOGOUTURL: VarMAINWEB: VarMAKETEXT: VarMAROON: VarMASTERWEBSCRIPTURL: VarMDREPO: VarMETASEARCH: VarMETA: VarM: VarNAVY: VarNOP: VarNOTIFYTOPIC: VarN: VarOLIVE: VarORANGE: VarPARENTTOPIC: VarPINK: VarPLUGINDESCRIPTIONS: VarPLUGINVERSION: VarP: VarPUBURLPATH: VarPUBURL: VarPURPLE: VarQRCODE: VarQ: VarQUERYPARAMS: VarQUERYSTRING: VarREDBG: VarRED: VarREMOTEADDR: VarREMOTEPORT: VarREMOTEUSER: VarRENDERLIST: VarREVINFO2: VarREVINFO: VarSCRIPTNAME: VarSCRIPTSUFFIX: VarSCRIPTURL2: VarSCRIPTURLPATH2: VarSCRIPTURLPATH: VarSCRIPTURL: VarSEARCH: VarSENDMAIL: VarSERVERTIME2: VarSERVERTIME: VarSESSIONID: VarSESSIONVARIABLE: VarSESSIONVAR: VarSETGETDUMP: VarSET: VarSILVER: VarSITENAME: VarSLIDESHOWEND: VarSLIDESHOWSTART: VarSPACEDTOPIC: VarSPACEOUT: VarSTARTINCLUDE: VarSTARTSECTION: VarSTATISTICSTOPIC:
  • Category:
VarSTOPINCLUDE: VarS: VarSYSTEMWEB: VarTABLE: VarTEAL: VarTOC2: VarTOC: VarTOPICLIST: VarTOPICTITLE: VarTOPIC: VarTOPICURL: VarT: VarTWIKIWEB: VarTWISTY: VarURLPARAM: VarUSERINFO: VarUSERNAME: VarUSERREPORT: VarUSERSWEB: VarU: VarVARCACHE: VarVAR: VarVBAR: VarWEBLIST: VarWEBPREFSTOPIC: VarWEB: VarWHITE: VarWIKIHOMEURL: VarWIKILOGOALT: VarWIKILOGOIMG: VarWIKILOGOURL: VarWIKINAME: VarWIKIPREFSTOPIC: VarWIKITOOLNAME: VarWIKIUSERNAME: VarWIKIUSERSTOPIC: VarWIKIVERSION: VarX: VarYELLOW: VarY:

Impact

WhatDoesItAffect: Documentation, Vars

Implementation

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2012-10-21

Discussion

Please provide feedback on categories.

For comparison, categories in:

Support web app:
  • API
  • Access Control
  • Add Ons
  • Applications
  • Attachments
  • Authentication
  • Automation
  • Browser
  • Deployment
  • Documentation
  • Editing
  • Email
  • Error
  • Forms
  • Hosting
  • Installation
  • Internationalization
  • Java Script
  • Localization
  • Missing Functionality
  • Performance
  • Plugins
  • Registration
  • Rendering
  • Search
  • Security
  • Skin
  • Statistics
  • Templates
  • Version Control

Tagged extensions in Plugins web:
  • access_control
  • accessibility
  • admin_tool
  • ajax
  • archive_me
  • attachments
  • authentication
  • automation
  • backup
  • bibliography
  • blogging
  • brainstorming
  • bugs
  • build
  • caching
  • cairo
  • calendar
  • changes
  • classification
  • comment
  • compatibility
  • component
  • configuration
  • contrib
  • css
  • customer_focus
  • database
  • database_store
  • date_time
  • deployment
  • dev_essential
  • development
  • diagram
  • discussion
  • documentation
  • drawing
  • easy_install
  • editing
  • email
  • export
  • findability
  • forms
  • geolocation
  • graphing
  • images
  • import
  • information_design
  • installation
  • integration
  • interaction_design
  • internationalization
  • javascript
  • knowledge_base
  • latex
  • ldap
  • linking
  • localization
  • math
  • media
  • menu
  • mod_perl
  • navigation
  • notification
  • openid
  • opinion
  • pdf
  • performance
  • plotting
  • plugin
  • poll
  • preferences
  • presentation
  • process
  • productivity
  • publish
  • quality
  • rating
  • redirect
  • rendering
  • replication
  • rest
  • scalability
  • scheduling
  • search
  • security
  • shell
  • skin
  • sorting
  • spam
  • spelling
  • spreadsheet
  • sso
  • statistics
  • store
  • structured_wiki
  • syndication
  • syntax_highlighting
  • tables
  • tagging
  • taxonomy
  • template_system
  • timeline
  • tracker_apps
  • transformation
  • translation
  • tree
  • twiki_application
  • twiki_community
  • twiki_form_field
  • twistyplugin
  • upgrade
  • usability
  • user_interface
  • users
  • version_control
  • visualization
  • web_application
  • web_services
  • windows
  • workflow
  • wysiwyg
  • xml
Proposed in OrganizeTWikiVariables:
  • Searching and Listing - SEARCH,
    WEBLIST, TOPICLIST, ...
  • Controlling Formatting - BR,
    BULLET, RED, IF, ...
  • Access Controls - ALLOWTOPICCHANGE,
    DENYTOPICVIEW, NOSEARCHALL...
  • Getting Environment - USERINFO,
    GMTIME, SCRIPTNAME, ...
  • Controlling Environment -
    HTTP_EQUIV, NEWTOPICBGCOLOR...
  • Active content - links and forms -
    SCRIPTURL, QUERYSTRING, ...
  • Web Control - WEBTOPICLIST,
    WEBBGCOLOR, WEBCOPYRIGHT, ...
  • User Settings - EDITBOXWIDTH,
    EDITBOXHEIGHT, EDITBOXSTYLE...
  • Email Settings - ...

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-10-21

Mentioned at JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x10x26:

  • Add category picklist to TWikiVariables and TWikiVariablesSearch
  • At a later point add wizard to editors to pick a category, show a list of variables, pick one to insert into text area.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-10-26

This is now accepted by 7 day feedback period.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-11-01

Now that we have categorized TWiki variables, I am adding a wizard to select and build variables. Tracked in TWikibug:Item7040.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-11-16

New wizard is taking shape:

twiki-variables-wizard.png

The variable doc is loaded via an Ajax call on each click. Works pretty fast.

Next step, out of scope of this feature proposal:

  • Add wizard to WYSIWYG editor
  • Add wizard to raw text editor

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-11-16

ChangeProposalForm
TopicClassification FeatureRequest
TopicSummary Categorize TWiki Variables & TWiki Variables Wizard
CurrentState MergedToCore
CommittedDeveloper PeterThoeny
ReasonForDecision AcceptedBy7DayFeedbackPeriod
DateOfCommitment 2012-10-21
ConcernRaisedBy

BugTracking TWikibug:Item7020, TWikibug:Item7040
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ProposedFor JerusalemRelease
TWikiContributors PeterThoeny
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