I've noticed that its difficult to follow 'types of sub topics' with a Web. Particularly when those Topics haven't been updated for a while and disappear off the WebChanges list.

It might be nice to devise some way of creating virtual TopicFrames that allow you to restrict your view of a Web dynamically.

-- NicholasLee - 16 Feb 2001

The question is how to improve the navigation within a TWiki web. Related ideas are NavigationByTopicContext and WebMap. Ideally, TWiki would show a list or graph of related topics. This should be generated automatically (based on links; frequency/similarity of words in text; browsing pattern?)

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Feb 2001

For some selected webs at our site, I've created a "frame navigator" based on "outline topics". Its a variation on TocAndReportGeneration, where the "report" is used as the left-hand frame with the contents, and the main frame shows the topic.

It works pretty well for a web that want to have a "book version" with outlines and a "book view" that lists the topics in the "order to be read for a new user".

At work I've used it for creating a "introduction to x" kind of web, and are planning on using it for software design documents as well. Note that use of this frame view discourages new topics, unless you also put them into an outline topic so they show up in the navigator. This is "good for a book" and bad in other situations.

I'm not sure how I should upload/present the extensions: its not yet packaged in the new "wiki module" format, and requires some modifications to existing core wiki functionality especially to support the "offline reading" of the book view HTML file. If someone wants the full source [not diffs or anything] let me know.

-- StanleyKnutson - 18 Feb 2001

I've taken down my demo of "frame navigation in twiki" until I make the code compatible with the latest release. Sometime soon I'll rebuild it. (I also set status to "feature under contruction", since I have working code for the older version).

-- StanleyKnutson - 24 Feb 2002