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Named Lists, Tables, Headers, TOC etc in wiki pages and using them as Tracker Fields

Status
Open
Subject
Named Lists, Tables, Headers, TOC etc in wiki pages and using them as Tracker Fields
Version
12.x
Category
  • Feature request
Feature
Trackers
Wiki Plugin (extends basic syntax)
Resolution status
New
Submitted by
Dimitrios Tanis
Lastmod by
Dimitrios Tanis
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(0)
Description

This is probably a complex feature so I'll try to be as clear as possible.
The term Lists will be used for the rest of the text to describe any structured text inside a wiki page that could be thought of as a group of text describing similar things such as bullet lists, numbered lists, tables, headers, table of contents, etc.

Why?:
Let's say you have some bullet list in a wiki page listing departments in an organization. eg

  • Sales department
  • Customer support
  • Supplies
  • Quality department, etc

That info won't change anytime soon so no need to put them in a tracker, you keep all related info in the wiki page.

Now suppose you want to create an issue tracker that can handle issues per department.
Currently you have to either define a tracker for departments and use an item link OR use a combo box,write the departments by hand.

The problem with that is when a change of departments comes, you'll have to remember where the department names are used and to update them manually.

How?:
The above "problem" could be resolved using named lists.
The author could write the department list in a named list and then when designing the tracker there would be a new type of tracker field type named list where he would define the page and named list name or listID to be used.
When adding a tracker item, that field would be rendered:

  • as a drop down combo box
  • as a radio button list (for single selection)
  • as a checkbox list (for multiple selections)

that would fetch the values from that named list.

How to implement?:
There probably are many ways to implement this but my guess is the easiest is reuse/modify existing wikiplugins so as to keep the simple lists plain.
What needed are:

  • At most two new attributes for each supported plugin: name and id eg for fancylist:
  • A new tracker field type Named list that would parse the defined named list

That field type would take as parameters:

    • The page the named list is in
    • The name or id of the named list
  • Optionally a new tiki feature admin page named lists where all lists names would be listed with name, id, and page.


Proposed list of plugins to be named (in order of preference):

  • PluginFancylist
  • PluginDl
  • PluginFancyTable
  • PluginMaketoc
  • PluginToc
  • PluginBacklinks
  • PluginSort
  • PluginAnnotation (for annotations lists)
  • PluginAttributes


Workaround
Discussed above in why section
Importance
6
Easy to solve?
2
Priority
12
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Ticket ID
5123
Created
Friday 31 January, 2014 01:00:32 GMT-0000
by Dimitrios Tanis
LastModif
Friday 31 January, 2014 01:00:32 GMT-0000

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