Question

From a main topic I want to create child topics and copy a subsection of the main topic.

By having a link to edit with templatetopic set to self the new sub topic gets created with all the content from the main topic, including some part that I want left out.

Any ideas on how to do this? The part I want to extract is typically a table.

olec

Environment

-- OleCMeldahl - 26 May 2005

Answer

Put the table into a seperate topic and INCLUDE that topic in your main topic. Create new topics based on that seperate topic (call it template) via an own form or use something like ChildTopicTemplatePlugin (works pretty well ).

-- FranzJosefSilli - 27 May 2005

Another way is to use something like the MeetingMinutes application. The FormattedSearch would extract and list tables instead of bullets.

You can selectively include topic content with %STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE%. Consult TWikiVariables for details.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jul 2005