Re: [xwiki-users] Use of variable text in Xwiki pages

2012-11-26 Thread Eduard Moraru
Hi John, As far as I understand it you need to put a placeholder (you call it variable text; we might call it wiki macro) in your documentation pages that, based on the user's IP address or the user's preference, displays one preconfigured text value. As I`ve said, one solution would be using a w

Re: [xwiki-users] Use of variable text in Xwiki pages

2012-11-26 Thread Thomas Mortagne
You can do that using scripting macros. It allows to insert in the wiki content any kind of dynamic behaviour. See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Scripting for details. On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:37 PM, John Murphy wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > By variable text, I mean the use of

Re: [xwiki-users] Use of variable text in Xwiki pages

2012-11-25 Thread John Murphy
Hi Vincent, By variable text, I mean the use of a field in the text that takes its value from a parameter it receives, or pulls, locally. e.g. I build an online help system for a software product. There are three distributors for the product in Asia, Europe, and US. Each distributor has a differe

Re: [xwiki-users] Use of variable text in Xwiki pages

2012-11-23 Thread Vincent Massol
On Nov 22, 2012, at 11:35 PM, John Murphy wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > Thank you for your speedy reply. > > Searching on dynamism got me nowhere, nor did configurability. > Can you point me to the place at XWiki.org where the use of variable text > is discussed? > Please remember, I am a writer an

Re: [xwiki-users] Use of variable text in Xwiki pages

2012-11-22 Thread John Murphy
Hi Vincent, Thank you for your speedy reply. Searching on dynamism got me nowhere, nor did configurability. Can you point me to the place at XWiki.org where the use of variable text is discussed? Please remember, I am a writer and not a developer so, if I have to write code to get a feature, It w

Re: [xwiki-users] Use of variable text in Xwiki pages

2012-11-21 Thread Vincent Massol
On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:45 PM, John Murphy wrote: > Hi, > I am proposing to use XWiki to provide context sensitive help for a cloud > application. > It is likely that our channel partners will require their own branding of > the product and supporting wiki, > Therefore, my question is: does Xwiki

[xwiki-users] Use of variable text in Xwiki pages

2012-11-21 Thread John Murphy
Hi, I am proposing to use XWiki to provide context sensitive help for a cloud application. It is likely that our channel partners will require their own branding of the product and supporting wiki, Therefore, my question is: does Xwiki have the functionality to use variables in the text? e.g. Compa