Question

I have had the following request from many of my TWiki users. I have created webs based on department or experiment and some users quickly lose track of where their topics are within their own webs.

Some web sites have an option to see the web site's 'site map'. Perhaps this is possible using the Search option along with the TreePlugin or RenderListPlugin?

Would anyone know how to list , say alphabetically, the topics within a web with child topics TABBED in from their parent topic?

Environment

-- PeterJones - 28 Jun 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

The TreePlugin or DirectedGraphWebMapPlugin can show the relation of topics within a web.

One simple and powerful navigation aid not widely known is the Jump box. Tell your users to enter just part of the topic name they remember, you will get a list of similar names. This is an easy and quick way to navigate to a topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jul 2006

TWiki doesn't currently have the option to list child topics. Work is being done for ChildTopicsTag (see WhatIsIn04x01) to have the option to show navigation as in: .

Release 4.1 is scheduled for September 2006.

-- ArthurClemens - 01 Jul 2006

According to TreePluginDev, the plugin doesn't scale. Which, given that there can be thousands of documents -- each of which is a separate text file that has to be read -- in a single web, is not exactly a surprise. ChildTopicsTag won't scale either, since anything that relies on reading every topic in a web is going to have the same problem.

-- MeredithLesly - 01 Jul 2006