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 like 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: globe.gif, home.gif, virtualhome.gif, group.gif, persons.gif, virtualpersons.gif, person.gif, virtualperson.gif, email.gif, trend.gif, folder.gif, folders.gif, file.gif, files.gif, doc.gif, image.gif, pdf.gif, ppt.gif, sound.gif, xls.gif, zip.gif, see.gif
  • Refer to an attached icon at the beginning of the bullet with:
    • icon:myicon Followed by normal bullet text
  • Any TWikiDocGraphics icon can be used as well:
    • %ICON{name}% 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	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	one   one.a   one.a.x   one.b   one.b.x   continue   one.b.y   Tim   Mico   two   three	one   one.a   one.a.x   one.b   one.b.x   continue   one.b.y   Tim   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	one   one.b   one.b.x   continue   one.b.y   Tim   Mico

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, , , , ,
  • Set FILE_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 TWiki server.

• 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

• TWiki 4.0 and up: Run the configure script to enable the Plugin
• Test if the installation was successful: See if above examples work

Plugin Info

Plugin Author:	TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny
Copyright:	© 2006, Peter Thoeny
License:	GPL (GNU General Public License)
Plugin Version:	23 Sep 2006 (V1.034)
Change History:
23 Sep 2006:	Support for img tag and image URL after icon: (suggested by TWiki:Main.JanFilipsky); support for TWikiDocGraphics icons, such as %ICON{folder}% instead of icon:folder; added files.gif and folders.gif (contributed by TWiki:Main.SteveHobbs)
25 Apr 2006:	SVN sync, Cairo + Dakar compatibility
14 Apr 2006:	TWikiRelease04x00 compatibility update
21 Nov 2004:	Added benchmarks (no code changes)
21 Mar 2004:	Internal change: Fixed unofficial function call
01 Mar 2004:	Added FILE_THEME and folder/file icons
29 Dec 2003:	Fixed rendering issue if focus bullet contains icon:name; added TREND_THEME
16 Dec 2003:	Specify icons with icon:name syntax
11 Dec 2003:	Added focus and depth parameters
05 Dec 2003:	Fixed rendering issue with IE; added EMAIL_THEME
02 Dec 2003:	Initial version
CPAN Dependencies:	none
Other Dependencies:	none
Perl Version:	5.005
TWiki:Plugins/Benchmark:	GoodStyle 97%, FormattedSearch 98%, RenderListPlugin 93%
Plugin Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/RenderListPlugin
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/RenderListPluginDev
Appraisal:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/RenderListPluginAppraisal

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

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 23 Sep 2006