Question

I'm not sure the Topic Name discover what i want:

The intention is to setup a knowledge base and using a Form for classification. What i want to achieve is "top down" categorisation

Here is an example: Main Category is software or hardware, the next level would be OS or APPS for software and PC or server for hardware and so on... The intention is as soon somebody has choosen e.g. software, he (she) should see only OS and APPS instead of the other categories related to hardware?

Has somebody a solution for this?

-- TWikiGuest - 06 Feb 2003

Answer

As far as I know, TWiki can't do what you need. I can't say for certain though because I'm not a complete TWiki expert. This will serve as a quick answer until somebody else confirms it.

What you want is to select a value from one list, and then depending on the selection, display a certain secondary list. TWikiForms don't work that way. You could merge it, in a sense, by prefixing the topics in your secondary list with the values from the first list (and then skip the first list altogether). This is done in the TopicClassification in order to "simulate" a primary list of the style TWiki, Feature, Bug etc.

-- TorbenGB - 07 Feb 2003

As Torben points out this is not possible with TWiki in edit mode. You could write a create topic form similar to the one in TWikiInstallations, and add some JavaScript magic that fills the select values based on the selection of another selector.

-- PeterThoeny - 08 Feb 2003