About Me

Why I am here

Current help desk software not good for capturing, retaining and updating lessons learned. Plus needed way to document procedures, policies and such for staff. Since I have a .NET background and a legal copy of VS2003, flexwiki became my Wiki Of Choice. The beauty of open source is the source is open!

My Occupation

Computer related stuff

My Goal

Retire quietly, spend rest of life far away from machines and computers. Preferrably near a beach with a view of mountains.

To Contact me

email: wixxiam.wheexer@cdotech.com (substitute els for exs) Don't spam me

FlexWiki Ramblings

Installation

V2 Comments

• OK, I give up: where is the SQL Namespace script? I downloaded the tool, but I was frightened off by the fact it wanted to know the path to the DB files. That's a little too low-level for my tastes. My two cents: it would be better to create an empty DB and account, then feed that connection string info into the NameSpace admin page and let it inspect the DB and run scripts if necessary.
• Answer To see the scripts and understand how the tool runs, you need to download the full sourcecode. In the compiled versions the scripts are embedded as a resource. The tool asks for a connection string and for a path to the data files. (It would be better to post these comments on the user mailing list as you are sure to get a response there - I just happened to notice this comment --JohnDavidson

WikiTalk

V1 Comments

• It's cool
• It's cryptic
• It doesn't work in preview mode

V2 Comments

I'm currently running v2.0.0.193 (binary distro) on a Win2003 server.

• I the TOC feature. It would be even better if you could control how many levels the TOC generates. C'mon, it's only one more parameter!
• Answer That is a good idea, sometimes when you are developing it is just trying to get something to work that is the real challenge.
• Getting some WikiTalk inconsistent behavior. An inline function works great in one part of the code, but is completely non-functional in another place on the same page. When I substitute the actual code for the function call it works great. Go figure? I'm going to try 2.0.0.209 soon; maybe that will fix it.
• Answer This is probably a syntax error in calling the function. If the function is declared on another page you need to use the property With: <topic_where_function_declared>

Wiki Language

Why can't we have an escape sequence to permit raw HTML? I'm not asking to be lectured; but it's frustrating to have the knowledge at hand, but denied the use of it. It's like telling a mechanic he can't use his favorite wrench to fix a problem!

Wouldn't it be interesting to have FlexWiki spit out SVG. Now there's a challenge! Imagine the possibilities!

• Answer There is a plugin to allow arbitrary XHTML output available at OdsWiki

FlexWiki Hacks

These are all based on the source code version 1.8.0.1696

Drop the domain name from the user identity

In Request.cs modify the following method to read as follows:

        public string AuthenticatedUserName
        {
                get
                {
                        if (User == null)
                                return null;
                        if (!User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
                                return null;
                        return User.Identity.Name.Substring(User.Identity.Name.IndexOf("\\")+1);  
                }
        }

Allow https image links

In Formatter.cs make the following changes around line 1681:

                        // image links
                        str = Regex.Replace (str, @"([^""']|^)https(://\S*(?i:\.jpg|\.gif|\.png|\.jpeg))",
                                "$1<img src=\"HTTPSIMAGESOURCE:$2\"/>") ;  // WFW Hack
                        str = Regex.Replace (str, @"([^""']|^)http(://\S*(?i:\.jpg|\.gif|\.png|\.jpeg))",
                                "$1<img src=\"HTTPIMAGESOURCE:$2\"/>") ;
                        str = Regex.Replace (str, @"([^""'])file(://\S*(?i:\.jpg|\.gif|\.png|\.jpeg|\.doc|\.xls|\.ppt|\.txt))",
                                "$1<img src=\"FILEIMAGESOURCE:$2\"/>") ;

and around line 1911:

                private string FinalizeImageLinks(string input)
                {
                        // finalise image links
                        string str = input;
                        str = Regex.Replace (str, "HTTPIMAGESOURCE::(//\\S*)", "http:$1") ;
                        str = Regex.Replace (str, "HTTPSIMAGESOURCE::(//\\S*)", "https:$1") ; // WFW Hack
                        str = Regex.Replace (str, "FILEIMAGESOURCE::(//\\S*)", "file:$1") ;
                        return str;
                }

Forced list numbering

In Formatter.cs make the following changes around line 1006:

                else if (each.StartsWith("1."))
                {
                        each = each.Substring(2);
                        Ensure(typeof(OrderedListState));
                        ((OrderedListState)(CurrentState)).SetNesting(thisNest);
                        _Output.WriteListItem(each);
                }
                // This hack allows user to change number of list item
                // Syntax 1#xx.<content> where xx is new value WFW


                else if (each.StartsWith("1#"))


                {
                        each = each.Substring(1);
                        Ensure(typeof(OrderedListState));
                        ((OrderedListState)(CurrentState)).SetNesting(thisNest);
                        _Output.WriteListItem(each);
                }
                else
                {
                        // False alarm (just some tabs)

In HTMLWikiOutput.cs make the following changes around line 433:

                override public void WriteListItem(string each)
                {
                        if (each.StartsWith("#") && each.IndexOf(".") > 1)
                        { 
                                int index = each.IndexOf(".");
                                WriteLine("<li value='" + each.Substring(1,index-1) + "' " + css() + ">" + each.Substring(index+1) + "</li>");        
                        } else {
                                WriteLine("<li" + css() + ">" + each + "</li>");
                        }
                }