> Today, I followed a few Wiki links given in various postings, and > "stumbled" again over the desire/need to create a collection from a > topic, including all sub-topics (as depicted in the overview box on the > upper right-hand side). It seems that it is still not possible to add a > Wiki page to the collection, indicating that all sub-pages (links in the > upper right hand box) should be included (recursively, if sub-pages > would have sub-pages themselves).
That is correct. The Collection extension only allows you to add one page at a time from the clickable links, and is not "smart" enough to travel down all sub pages. I doubt this will ever be possible since functionality like this could easily run away with itself and effectively PDF the entire Wiki depending on where you started an action like that. To create a PDF of an entire chapter, you currently have two options. 1. Step through each Wiki page in that chapter adding each page to your personal Collection 2. Manually create the Collection (it is just a list of Wiki articles in standard Wiki syntax). This step requires that you know the Wiki article names and paths for all the articles you want to add. This information is available in the TOC template, but it's not simple to work with if you are not familiar with it. Option 1 is the most reasonable option at this point for most. I hope to simplify this a bit in the future. I have been working on an idea to auto-generate the Collections for each chapter. The Wiki syntax for a Collection and the Wiki syntax we use to generate the TOC box are similar. We should be able to run a WikiBot over the TOC pages extract the chapter information and generate a Collection. When things are ready to go on with this step, I will write up an outline of what is needed, and will call on the community here to help with the scripting. > So I am wondering whether I overlook the obvious and would be greatful > for any further hints/comments... No you haven't overlooked the obvious :-) Collections are not a 100% solution... it still needs some work. C. -- Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
