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: globe.gif, home.gif, virtualhome.gif, group.gif, persons.gif, virtualpersons.gif, person.gif, virtualperson.gif, email.gif, trend.gif, folder.gif, file.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

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 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

Plugin Author:	TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny
Plugin Version:	21 Mar 2004 (V1.031)
Change History:
21 Mar 2004:	Internal change: Fixed inofficial 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
Plugin Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/RenderListPlugin
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/RenderListPluginDev

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

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 21 Mar 2004

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