On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:33 PM, C <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Jean Weber wrote:
>> I've also been considering trying out some additional pages of collections, 
>> grouped by component, to supplement the pages grouped by document type. 
>> However, it's not a good idea to have too many pointers that need to be 
>> manually added or updated, so I need to look up how to embed (include) a 
>> page of info into several display pages. I've done this before, but not for 
>> several years. Or perhaps someone here is familiar with that technique? 
>> Clayton, perhaps?
>
> Back in the OOo Wiki days we used an extension called Labeled Section
> Transclusion 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion
> This allows you to mark and transclude a section of one page into another 
> page.
>
> I don't know if that extension is available on the LibO Wiki (haven't 
> checked).
>
> You can also do full topic/page transclusion without any magic or
> extensions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion
> Basically, this is what you are doing when you use a Template, but you
> can do the same with pretty much any content... the limitation is you
> get the whole page instead of a section of a page.
>
> C.

Thank you! Your note is incredibly well timed. I was just looking that up. :-)

"Transclusion" certainly isn't a word that I would have thought of.

--Jean

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