Question

I have a twiki server running for me. I have created a Web and there is no left bar appearing. Do i need to have any extra plugins installed for it. In the Web Preferences i have just added Set WebLeftBar = ExaMple Set WebLeftBar = MaYa Set WebLeftBar = NewIdea Set WebLeftBar = NewIdeaTemplate Then also there is no left bar appearing for me. Please suggest me what to do?

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-- MayankJain - 04 Jan 2008

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i added INCLUDE{WEB.WebLeftBar} and the left bar came but the problem is that i want to make left bar as in twiki. I am getting left bar and the text which i wrote below that and not right to it as it should be..

i hope u got it.. the left navigation should be at left and whatever i write in that page should be right to it but its coming down to left bar.

-- MayankJain - 04 Jan 2008

I have no idea what your problem is. Its seems you don't have a left bar by default. Which skin do you use? What do you see?

-- ArthurClemens - 04 Jan 2008

i am using pattern skin. yes i don,t have a left bar but when i add that include command it comes up which is set for a particular user of my WEB. Is there any other skin that i should use or what else can be the cause?

-- MayankJain - 04 Jan 2008

I think I understand Mayans problem: he has included the systems leftbar in a n ordinary topic.

You need to have a topic named WebLeftBar in your web: everything you enter into that topic should appear automagically in the left bar. Use bulleted lists for the individual entries. See TWiki:TWiki.WebLeftBarCookbook for more examples how to design your own left bar.

-- FranzJosefGigler - 04 Jan 2008

Guys, I have the same problem now. Ive installed several plugins, than the left bar disappeard... Hm, I try to find out which one was the guilty.. Some Idea?

-- BarnaFarago - 2012-09-14

Barna, see SID-01528 and SID-01522.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-09-14

I couldn't find the left bar in a web after installing 6.0.2 and trying to transport a 4.1.2 web into it. The WebLeftBar topic was there and I hadn't made any mods to the skin, so I assume the "pattern" skin was the one being used and the left bar ought to be there. So I forced the issue by adding "set COVER = pattern" to the preferences of the web and it appeared!

-- John Huber - 2015-12-22

You can also add a sidebar to the TopMenuSkin, see TopMenuSkin

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-12-23