Render List Plugin

Render bullet lists in a variety of formats

Syntax Rules

RENDERLIST Variable

• Place a %RENDERLIST{ <parameters> }% before any bullet list
  • The lists can be handcrafted, generated by another Plugin, a %TOC%, or the result of a FormattedSearch
• Supported parameters:

  "name" or theme="name"	Select a rendering theme
  focus="any text"	Focus list on a bullet with specified text
  depth="2"	Remove bullets with an indent greater then the depth. The depth is relative to the highlighted bullet in case focus is specified

• Rendering themes can be defined by <name>_THEME Plugin settings
  • Each theme is defined by a comma separated list containing the render type and parameters required by that render type
  • There are different render types; this initial Plugin version has tree and icon render types
• Format of the tree render type:
  • Set <name>_THEME = tree, <0/1 flag to suppress/show lines of first level>
• Format of the icon render type:
  • Set <name>_THEME = icon, <0/1 flag to suppress/show lines of first level>, <icon width>, <icon height>, <spacer graph>, <T-line graph>, <I-line graph>, <L-line graph>, <icon image>
  • To define new Icon themes, attach images to this Plugin topic and set the parameters accordingly
• Focus bullet list:
  • Search bullet list for text. If a bullet is found:
    1. Highlight text and remove [[][]] links on bullet where text is found
    2. Reduce bullet list to show only its parents and children
  • This is useful to maintain one large bullet list with links to team pages, representing the organization of a company. Each team page can INCLUDE the bullet list with focus set to itself.

Bullets

• Use regular * bullets
• Start with level one
  • Increase indentation only one level at a time
    • Like this
• Decreasing indentation many levels at a time is OK
• Wrap long text with continuation lines, the Plugin does not do that for you
  Align continuation lines with leading spaces linke this
• You can specify an icon for a bullet of render type tree or icon:
  • Attach the icon to this Plugin topic, e.g. myicon.gif, or
  • Use one of the existing icons: home.gif, virtualhome.gif, group.gif, persons.gif, virtualpersons.gif, person.gif, virtualperson.gif, email.gif, trend.gif
  • Refer to an attached icon at the beginning of the bullet with:
    • icon:myicon Followed by normal bullet text

Examples

You type:	You get: (simulated)	You get: (if installed)
%RENDERLIST{"thread"}% * one * one.a * one.a.x * one.b * one.b.x continue * one.b.y * icon:person Tim * icon:person Mico * two * three	one one.a one.a.x one.b one.b.x continue one.b.y Tim Mico two three	%RENDERLIST{"thread"}% one one.a one.a.x one.b one.b.x continue one.b.y icon:person Tim icon:person Mico two three
%RENDERLIST{"org"}% * one * one.a * one.a.x * one.b * one.b.x continue * one.b.y * icon:person Tim * icon:person Mico * two * three	one   one.a   one.a.x   one.b   one.b.x   continue   one.b.y   Tim   Mico   two   three	%RENDERLIST{"org"}% one one.a one.a.x one.b one.b.x continue one.b.y icon:person Tim icon:person Mico two three
%RENDERLIST{ "org" focus="one.b" }% * one * one.a * one.a.x * one.b * one.b.x continue * one.b.y * icon:person Tim * icon:person Mico * two * three	one   one.b   one.b.x   continue   one.b.y   Tim   Mico	%RENDERLIST{ "org" focus="one.b" }% one one.a one.a.x one.b one.b.x continue one.b.y icon:person Tim icon:person Mico two three

RenderListPlugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %RENDERPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Render bullet lists in a variety of formats

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

• Themes are named <SOMETHING>_THEME and contain a comma delimited list of render type with parameters:
  • Set THREAD_THEME = tree, 1
  • Set HOME_THEME = icon, 1, 16, 16, , , , ,
  • Set ORG_THEME = icon, 0, 16, 16, , , , ,
  • Set GROUP_THEME = icon, 0, 16, 16, , , , ,
  • Set EMAIL_THEME = icon, 0, 16, 16, , , , ,
  • Set TREND_THEME = icon, 0, 16, 16, , , , ,

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip RenderListPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/RenderListPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/RenderListPlugin.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/RenderListPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module
  pub/TWiki/RenderListPlugin/*.gif	Image files for themes

• Test if the installation was successful:
  • See if the above example works

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins, TWiki:Plugins/TreePlugin

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 29 Dec 2003