Plugin Alias

Plugin Alias is a powerful new feature of Tiki3

This page is to coordinate development.

Questions

• Can I pass the page name as a parameter?
• Could pass a different parameter depending on the context? (alternate size of images for print mode or for mobile mode)
• dynamic variables wiki page syntax is the same as wiki alias parameters in the body. Is this a problem?
• Should we use this feature as a better way to have custom quicktags? (custom snippets of text)

Bugs/UI/Missing

• No obvious way to delete an alias
• Dependencies has to be in small letters (wikiplugin_googlecheckout vs wikiplugin_GoogleCheckout) and thus, when you start a plugin name with Caps, it won't work unless you rename the dependencies
• Missing an interface to add certain things (that you can only do via profiles)

Wishlist

• To associate an image/icon to these new plugins, for use in quicktags for example
• Plugin builder (plugin alias): build plugins with backlink functionality
• Task/action markup for meeting notes and plans (like Twiki Action Tracker Plugin)
• Backlinks between trackers and wiki pages (and maybe forums)
• Tracker plugin to get title and make link to tracker item
• Use of variables in text areas ex.: wiki pages (lang, page, etc)
• Infoboxes like MediaWiki/Wikipedia, but not just using trackers

Nice to have

Discussion

I suggest naming this feature "Plugin Builder". What do you think?

Related links

Doc:Plugin Alias
Profiles doc: Plugin Alias Handler