Just an idea - could we have the menu also created from a Wiki page e.g.
a sort of "table of contents" page.
Using Wiki's linking capability, it's dead easy to create this menu page
on the Wiki side. Not sure how easy it would be to then read it in and
then use it from the Maven side to build the left hadn menu and
determine what other pages to pull in.
(We use Twiki here at work - and that's how Twiki's left-hand-menu bar
is created, just as a regular page which is then processed dynamically
to create a left hand menu)
-- Rob
Marcel Offermans wrote:
Rich, Rob,
The way we setup the wiki now is that it uses a velocity template
which embeds a static menu on the left. The reason for doing that is
that we then could use exactly the same menu when generating stuff
from within Maven and still have it look like one website.
So basically, there is no relation between the confluence site and the
menu, the whole thing is hardcoded.
What we need to consider is if we want to keep using a static menu
like this.
If we don't, we will have to accept that whatever dynamic menu we
generate from Confluence (and there are plenty of ways to do that, so
that won't be the problem) won't be automatically duplicated on the
Maven generated pages. However, we can have those pages use a
simplified menu that simply contains a link back to the homepage.
If we do want to keep the static menu, we can still add a second menu
level for each main item, like we did for "documentation". If you add
the {children} tag to that page, you will get a list of all child
pages that you add below the documentation page.
Greetings, Marcel
On Aug 21, 2006, at 17:59 , Richard S. Hall wrote:
I agree that this could be improved too. As far as I could figure
out, the main wiki page is the "index" of the web site and then the
"menu" items on the index page simply correspond to the child wiki
pages of the same name on the main wiki page.
Perhaps one approach is to move all wiki children to the pages where
they are linked. Thus, the main wiki page would only have the menu
item pages as children and then each menu item page would have its
associated links as children.
Rob Walker wrote:
Nice work Ronald - big fan of wiki as we use it here for a lot of
our project documentation.
Maybe I'm being dense here, but it's not immediately obvious how the
structure of the confluence Wiki pages map to the structure of the
generated web site e.g the main "index" page has a set of Children
underneath which don't seem to match exactly to the left hand index
on the generated web site page.
With a little bit of poking around, I think I figured which Wiki
pages map to which web site pages - but maybe there's a more obvious
or clearer way that the relationships could be shown so that it's
easy for others to find, edit, and add new pages?
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