Am 03.10.2012 21:34, schrieb Ted Stern: > On 03 Oct 2012 00:04:07 -0700, Reimar Bauer wrote: >> >> Am 02.10.2012 22:15, schrieb Ted Stern: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> One of my users would like to set up a sort of shortcut for use on one >>> of the wikis in my farm. >>> >>> He want's something similar to @VAR@ syntax, but not expanded when the >>> page is saved. He intends to use it for very long URLs. So I suppose >>> the <<GetVal(WikiDict,VAL)>> syntax would be appropriate, but it >>> doesn't work inside [[...]] braces. >>> >>> If I modify our local InterWiki, he can do >>> >>> [[VAR:rest/of/path]] >>> >>> to create links, but then the InterWiki becomes littered with these >>> links. Since I share the same InterWiki between farms, that could be >>> problematic also. >>> >>> Is there anything set up in MoinMoin to do this? >>> >>> Ted >>> >> Have you thought on using the InterWikiMap page for creating all those >> shortcuts for theses urls? > > If you read my message, double-quoted above, you will see that I > already have thought of that. I will discuss it further below. > >> >> It is a page per wiki. > > Yes, I'm aware of that. >> >> I don't understand why he want @VAR@ not expanded, he could define >> in his own Homepage/MyDict a var for each url like > > I understand that he can do Homepage/MyDict. > > 1) We don't want to expand it because the location may change over > time, and when the variable is expanded, the association between > variable and its value is lost. > > 2) We don't want to put the variable into a user's MyDict because the > same location will be used by many users on a wiki, and it is > wasteful to have the same information in several places > (e.g. multiple MyDict pages). It is a bit of the same > decentralization problem from 1 > >> >> URL1:: [[http://moinmo.in|MoinMoin]] > > Thank you, I was not aware of the possibility of using the [[...]] > syntax in intermap.txt. > >> >> and use then on a page @URL1@ will be replaced by this substitute. >> >> for an example see http://moinmo.in/ReimarBauer/MyDict?action=raw >> >> Reimar > > 3) the reason I don't want to put the variables for a single wiki into > intermap.txt is that I share the same intermap.txt file with all the > wikis in my farm, and it would not be appropriate for users in other > wikis to be able to access the variables set for the users in one > particular wiki.
Hi just wanted to point out that there is a difference between the file intermap.txt and the wiki page InterWikiMap. You can have both at the same time. And you can have additional definitions on the wiki page. I am not sure if that is known. All the other parts I read later again after some coffee. Reimar > > 4) To cap things off, this user isn't just referencing URLs. He > actually wants to reference Windows Network Neighborhood > sharepoints, in the form > > SharePoint:: [[\\sharelocation\path\to\share\point\]] > > and then do something like > > [[SharePoint:subdirectory\under\sharepoint\table.xls]] > > I have told the user that Windows directory share syntax isn't > standard URL format, but there you go. I still have to work with > him. > > Does that clarify my difficulty at all? > > -- Ted > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM >> Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly >> what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app >> Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Moin-user mailing list >> Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
