[xwiki-users] #includeMacros("macrosDocument")

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team wrote:
> Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
>> First you need to put all your macros in one page, let's say 
>> XWiki.MyMacros . Then you'll have to go to the Administration, Tab 
>> Preferences, Line Advanced. Then put the name of your page in the 
>> Velocity Macro Pages field (you can put only one page there for 
>> performance reasons). So you'll have :
>>
>> Velocity Macro Pages :
>> XWiki.MyMacros
>>
>> Then save the page. You can now call your macros from wherever in the 
>> wiki.
> 
> Thanks, Guillaume. It works fine. I was putting the document in the 
> wrong method. Is it worth a FAQ entry?
> 
> Are you aware of any performance difference between this approach and 
> the one prosed by Sergiu?
> 

Just looked at the code to see how it works.

Registering in velocity.properties causes the file to be parsed once 
when the platform starts.

Registering in XWikiPreferences causes the file to be parsed for each 
line (!) of the parsed document.

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/