Question

Hi,

I have installed the Plugins.TocPlugin but it does not work outside of the Plugins web. That is if I go to the Plugins.TocPlugin or the Plugins.TocPluginHelp page, then it all displays correctly. But if I try and create a table of contents in the SandBox web then it does not work.

I have created the WebOrder page and populated it with a list of topics and placed the %TOCCHECK% variable at the end of it, but when i create a topic with %CONTENTS% in it, all I see is the string %CONTENTS%.

Now I know that many other people have successfully installed this plugin from the Dev comments so I assume I have done something really dull but cannot work out what it is!

Also of note is the fact that when I view the list of installed plugins at the TWiki.WebHome page or the InstalledPlugins, the TocPlugin does not get displayed. But if I view the currently activated plugins in the TWikiPreferences page then it is there! Is this linked in anyway to the behaviour I am seeing?

I have run the latest testenv as well, I have two warnings:

$templateDir: /export/home/twiki/templates Note: This is the TWiki template directory, as seen from the file system. Warning: Security issue: This directory should not be writable by the nobody user.

$rcsDir: /usr/bin Note: This is the directory where RCS is located. Warning: RCS program /usr/bin/ci not found. Check $rcsDir setting in TWiki.cfg. TWiki will not work (unless you are using TWiki's built-in RCS implementation, RcsLite).

but I don't suspect these to cause any problems.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 14 Nov 2003 (alias Gethin)

Answer

I have now worked out what I was doing wrong. It seems that in order for the %CONTENTS% variable to work, the Topic that contains it must be in the WebOrder topic. This is not mentioned the documentation accompanying the plugin and I would suggest that it is added for clarification.

I still do not understand why it does not appear in the InstalledPlugins topic so any help with that is still appreciated.

Thanx anyway

-- TWikiGuest - 18 Nov 2003 (alias Gethin)