Question

Is there any way to "hide" a topic on the WebIndex? I don't want things like the FlexibleSkinStyleSheet showing up.

• TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003
• Perl version: 5.6.1
• Web server & version: Apache/1.3.27
• Server OS: Linux pluto.dnsuniverse.net 2.4.20-13.7
• Web browser & version: Mozilla 1.3
• Client OS: Windows Me

-- JasonTromm - 17 Jun 2003

Answer

As far as I know, there's nothing to be done about this. WebIndex and WebTopicList simply shows all the topic files in the directory. Even setting per-file permissions to DENYTOPICVIEW won't help you because the WebIndex is not viewing that topic, only linking to it. (Aside: I don't know if it will show the summary for such protected pages, but I think it will.)

If you're trying to hide your skin files, perhaps it's an idea to put them out of sight, in the TWiki web rather than in the Main web, or however your setup is. Of course, they would then still be listed in the TWiki WebIndex...

-- TorbenGB - 17 Jun 2003

I've solved a similar problem, which may or may not help.

On the WebHome page I needed a summary but the "Web*" topics were to be excluded. I've tried two techniques.

Search by Classification: This assumes you are using forms and the classification mechanism.

Search With&bnsp;Exclusion Pattern: I use this to exclude topics that begin "Web..."

     %SEARCH{search="^([^W]|W[^e]|We[^b]|Web[^A-Z])" ....

Please note: You may have to deal with topics that are someone's name, such as "WebsterBrown"

Given this, you may decide it is worth replacing the seach statement in WebIndex. YMMV.

I can't claim originality for this. After playing with a few ideas I asked PeterThoeny and he showed me that technique.

If you do go for the Classification method, I suggst you use MetaSearch rather than Search.

-- AntonAylward - 17 Jun 2003

One of the consequences of NoBumpyCase will be to have a way to create a special WikiWord link which could be eliminated by prefix _, like _web_home. It's just an idea, no patch even in the plans - nobody was interested at the time. Patterns Twiki (from PatternSkin) uses _ to define WikiWord links

-- PeterMasiar - 18 Jun 2003

I looked at the %METASEARCH% variable and it doesn't look like there's any way to search by TopicClassification. Is there an undocumented feature I'm not seeing?

-- JasonTromm - 19 Jun 2003

Example: The following searches the 5 most recent support questions that have been asked:

%SEARCH{ "META:FIELD.*[S]upportStatus.*value\=.[A]skedQuestions" casesensitive="on" regex="on" nosearch="on" noheader="on" nototal="on" order="modified" reverse="on" limit="5" }%

which returns this:

You can also do AND searches, delimited by semicolon. See TWikiInstallation for a query by example example.

-- PeterThoeny - 19 Jun 2003

In theory the "excludetopic" option with the list of topics begining "Web..." should generate just the list of 'real' topics.

In practice when I run

%SEARCH{text=".*"  \
         web="%INCLUDINGWEB%" \
         format="[[$topic]]" \
         scope="topic" regex="on" nosearch="on" \
         excludetopic="WebChanges,WebHome,WebIndex,WebLeftBar,\
                       WebNotify,WebPreferences,WebRss,WebSearchAdvanced,\
                       WebSearch,ebStatistics,WebTopicList"\
       }%

it doens't give me what I expect:

ALLOWWEBVIEWcannotSearch ARGPullingMyHairOutConfigureBroken ASimpleSearchFormOnTheMainPage AUTOINCNotChoosingNextNumber AboutTWikiSupport AbsoluteUrl AbyssUserAuthentication AccentInFilenames AccessChangeOops AccessCheckErrorNoUser AccessCheckForChangeIssue AccessConfigurefile AccessControl AccessControlAndPermissionIssues AccessControlBasedOnHttpHeaderValues AccessControlConfusion AccessControlForHierarchicalWebs AccessControlForTopicAndSubWebs AccessControlHierarchicalWebs AccessControlIssue AccessControlIssueApache AccessControlOnSpecificPartsOfPage AccessControlProblem AccessControlQuestion AccessControlSettingsDontTakeEffect AccessControlToTemplates AccessControlToTopics AccessControlandMailerContrib AccessControlnotworking AccessDataFromExternalPage AccessDenied AccessDeniedAfterMainWebRenamed AccessDeniedOnAttachments AccessDeniedSeenInErrorLog AccessForbiddenOnConfigure AccessGroupViewOkButEditKo AccessPermissions AccessProblemRememberLoginWikiName AccessRestrictionByIPAddress AccessRestrictionsVersusTWikiSearch AccessRights AccessStatsPlugin AccessTemplateVarsFromPlugin AccessingMySqlTablesInTWikiUsingDakar AccessingTWikiWithoutNetwork AccessingTopicVariablesinTemplates AccessingTwikiAttachmentThroughLink AccidentallyOverwritingChangesWhenLockExpires AccountLedgerApp AcessDeniedInPerlScripts ActionNotifierIssueWithGNUGrepForWin ActionNotifyErrorCantUseString ActionNotifyErrorOnDakar ActionNotifyLinksMalformed ActionNotifyStdAttrsOnly ActionSearchGrepIssue ActionSearchinActionTrackerPlugin ActionTrackNonstandardAttribDropMenu ActionTracker500Error ActionTrackerActionSearchProblems ActionTrackerActionTypesAndDefaultValue ActionTrackerAndMultipleAssignees ActionTrackerBadAttrList ActionTrackerBreaksCairoWebHomeTopics ActionTrackerBreaksTable ActionTrackerCloserAndClosedBugs ActionTrackerCloserEmpty ActionTrackerConfigError ActionTrackerCouldNotFindTemplateEdit000001 ActionTrackerDoesntExpandAttributes ActionTrackerEditDeletesTopicContent ActionTrackerEditFails ActionTrackerEditLink ActionTrackerEditLinkOpensPageEdit ActionTrackerEditLockControl ActionTrackerFunctionGetGMDateError ActionTrackerHasEmptyEditWindow ActionTrackerImproveNotifyFormatting ActionTrackerJSCalendarNotWorking ActionTrackerLdapDeepRecursion ActionTrackerNewbie ActionTrackerNotResolvingNames ActionTrackerNotStarting ActionTrackerNotTranslatingTwikiWord ActionTrackerPCreatedByMeButNotForMe ActionTrackerPlugin ActionTrackerPluginActionSearchesDue ActionTrackerPluginAndRcsLite ActionTrackerPluginBadDateProblems ActionTrackerPluginClosingDate ActionTrackerPluginEditCorruptsData ActionTrackerPluginEditFails ActionTrackerPluginFailsOnNew ActionTrackerPluginFixesAndLittleAddition ActionTrackerPluginHelp ActionTrackerPluginInstall ActionTrackerPluginInstallDoesNotWorkNewbieQuestion ActionTrackerPluginInstallProblem ActionTrackerPluginIsNotWorking ActionTrackerPluginLazyInitError

limited to first 100 results--MW

-- AntonAylward - 26 Oct 2004

I'd also like to be able to hide topics, e.g. from a search. My ItemToDoForm topic comes up in lots of searches (because it has the names of all the categories), but users don't care about it. I'd like to be able to set a property/metadata on that page to have search ignore it. Not a big deal, but it'd be nice to streamline the user experience.

-- GaryOberbrunner - 17 Feb 2005

As much as I hate to do this, I also would like to know how to restrict topics from the left bar. I have Movable Type incorporated as a weblog in twiki, I have the MT menu and sitemap separate from the twiki one. I would like to remove the MT entries from the topic list...

-- BruceRProchnau - 18 Feb 2005

To fix Anton's search remove the text at the very beginning:

%SEARCH{".*" ...}%

-- MattWilkie - 18 Feb 2005

I have 4.02, and it looks to me (I tried it, and it worked), that if you change the line in TWiki.pm, inside the "foreach my $item" loop in "sub TOPICLIST" from

push(@items,$line);

    
       if( $this->security->checkAccessPermission ( 'VIEW', $this->{user}, undef, undef, $item, $web ) ) {
          push( @items, $line );
        }

    

-- SusanCassidy - 10 Mar 2008