Question

I would like to embed twiki pages inside another twiki page. I've seen this feature in other wikis (moinmoin, pmwiki), either in frames, tables, or directly in the page.

This allows a twiki page to seem like a single page when its actually an amalgamation of several other linked pages. Content can be updated and reordered without major edits, accessed in other "host" pages or on the originating linked pages. In the implementation I've seen, edits have to occur on the linked page since the host page only contains links to the linked pages. Content can be removed from the host page without removing it from the wiki as a whole, saving it for reference or used in other host pages.

Can this be done with twiki? If not, can it be added as a feature? Its highly useful.

Thanks.

Environment

-- CharlesLong - 01 Jun 2007

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.

Yes, TWiki does allow embedding other topics into one topic. It can also embed parts of topics, based on named sections or regular expressions.

See:

• IncludeTopicsAndWebPages
• VarINCLUDE

Not sure what you meant at the end by removing content, but if you take a look at the documentation above you should be able to see what TWiki can do.

-- AndrewRJones - 01 Jun 2007