Question
My users (and I) want to have an easy way to find unlinked topics. I can't find anything about doing this, but I certainly could have missed it. There are a number of approaches that would meet our need. I've considered an option in search, a list, a tree-view of topics, a script that generates an HTML page with just that by scanning the pages. Before I start looking at this as a feature request or my own perl script to grep all the files, I'd like to find out if I'm reinventing the wheel...Environment
| TWiki version: | TWikiRelease01Feb2003 |
| TWiki plugins: | DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin |
| Server OS: | MacOSX |
| Web server: | Apache 1.3.2x |
| Perl version: | 5.8.1 |
| Client OS: | MacOSX 10.3 |
| Web Browser: | Safari 1.2 |
Answer
There was some activity. Topics about orphaned pages:| Web | Topic | Summary |
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| Plugins | OrphansPlugin | Orphans Plugin Introduction This Plugin assists in the management of topics within a TWiki web by locating orphaned topics (topics that have no parent, or their parent... |
| Plugins | OrphansPluginAppraisal | |
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Edit | Attach | Topic revision: r2 - 2004-02-21 - PeterThoeny
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