Motivation
When I install TWiki for clients, the first thing I do is clean up and organize the "web admin topics" vs everything else. I'd love for the default to handle this.
Description and Documentation
I re-do the _default web in several ways:
- a WebAdmin topic that lists all Web* topics in the current web
- A WebTools topic that contains the list that has previously been at the bottom of WebHome
- WebHome doesn't have a list of utilities in it
- WebLeftBar contains a link to WebTools
- All Web* topics are parented by WebAdmin
Examples
WebAdmin
%METASEARCH{
type="parent"
web="%WEB%"
topic="%TOPIC%"
format=" * [[$topic]]"
}%
example _in situ_
WebTools
* WebTopicList - all topics in alphabetical order
* WebChanges - recent topic changes in this web
* WebNotify - subscribe to an e-mail alert sent when topics change
* WebRss, WebAtom - RSS and ATOM news feeds of topic changes %IF{"istopic '%STATISTICSTOPIC%'" then="
* %STATISTICSTOPIC% - listing popular topics and top contributors"}%
* WebPreferences - preferences of this web
example _in situ_
WebHome
example _in situ_
Impact
- Better organization
- All "adminish" topics organized together, listed together, with shared parent topic
- Web Tools on their own page; editing of WebHome no longer makes this list disappear!
- No more orphaned topics as shipped
- [[http://cfcl.com/twiki/bin/view/Sample/WebTopicTree][example _in situ_]
- Obvious naming convention: Web* topics are administrative
No impact on existing installations or webs.
Implementation
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Contributors: Vicki Brown - 2014年04月05日
Discussion
Does that apply to TWiki-5.1 release? TWiki-6.0 has a dashboard in each
WebHome topic. One box called "Web Utilities" has the web utilities links.
Good point on how to handle additional Web* topics. I like the idea of having them parented to one topic so that they can be identified easily -- user provided topic names may start with Web* too. I do not see the reason why to have two topics, isn't one sufficient? I recommend calling it
WebUtilities . The "Web Utilities" box could contain one more link to the WebUtilities topic called "more web utilities".
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Peter Thoeny - 2014年04月07日