Simple Wiki Building Blocks

Introduction

I am just getting to grips with the wiki and have spent a lot of time just getting over some concepts. A few pointers would have greatly helped me overcome some ideas.

Also a little collection of some things I have managed to do within wiki as well as link to the parts of the wiki I have found greatly useful....

I am not a Perl coder in any way, I just using wiki variables inside topics and learning a bit of HTML forms from the examples I can find.

Useful parts of the wiki

User Input

This part covers simple user input using HTML Forms and JavaScript.

• TestingDynamicRadioButtons - My attempt to make a simple building block from part of the ApacheConfigGenerator -- SimonLatham - 01 Apr 2009
• WorkingWithMultipleSelectBoxes - rationalising multiple select boxes into a single comma seperated list.

• JSCalendarContribInline - this little piece of code is very welcome by me as the means of getting Date entry into a form using the JSCalendar interface. The application I am developing is date driven and I wanted somethig which would appeal to the users rather than a collection of three drop downs - this little topic was the bridge between HTML forms and the JSCalendarContrib - who ever put it together - thanks!!

-- NeilGood - 22 Feb 2009

• ExperimentationWithListFunctions of the SpreadSheetPlugin
• HowWikiDoesVlookup - like the topic says
• PPSpreadsheetExamples - very handy collection of SpreadSheetPlugin examples
• WorkingWithSearchAndForms - a little thing I noticed recently with the interaction between %SEARCH% and foswikiForms
• %SEARCH% features - This Complex Nested Search Discussion looks to be really good - you can see the real thing at Cops - SearchOfPrecinctFormTest
  • This deals with a variable number of columns from a form and summarises the results as well at the bottom.
  • My idea would be to use $LISTMAP to provide people with a selectable column layout.
• CompilingTableDataIntoConfirmationEmail - from the data is a table (posted there by a form perhaps, provide a link which puts table entries into the eMail.

-- NeilGood - 19 Mar 2009

• to generate user-customized instructions (often shell commands in our case), see BuildContribCookbook (simple) and ApacheConfigGenerator (complex)
• http://foswiki.org/System.PerlDoc?module=Foswiki::Meta

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FoswikiApplicationsContrib has a series of applications that you might find useful to take apart

-- SvenDowideit - 05 Apr 2009