Hi, Your need looks a bit like internationalization : http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/I18N http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/InternationalizingApplicat... I'm not sure it would fit though, as it would link keys (product names) to specific countries, and not to specific areas (asia, europe ...). You could provide a same translation to all countries part of an area, but it might be boring ;-) BR, Jeremie 2012/11/25 John Murphy <[email protected]>
Hi Vincent,
By variable text, I mean the use of a field in the text that takes its value from a parameter it receives, or pulls, locally.
e.g. I build an online help system for a software product. There are three distributors for the product in Asia, Europe, and US. Each distributor has a different name for the product based on market research conducted in their area.
I do not want to maintain three distinct help systems. I want the product name to appear differently to each set of viewers withing the one help system. That is what I mean by variable text. Nothing in the XWiki documentation shows me that this is possible without my writing code. I know nothing about Velocity.
I would normally use a dedicated 'single source publishing' product like Madcap Flare, Author-IT, or Help & Manual to achieve this outcome. However my client has requested that I use the wiki format to heighten the user experience.
If Xwiki cannot provide the feature, I shall keep looking.
Regards
John Murphy
On 23 November 2012 19:02, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 22, 2012, at 11:35 PM, John Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Vincent,
Thank you for your speedy reply.
Searching on dynamism got me nowhere, nor did configurability. Can you point me to the place at XWiki.org where the use of variable
text
is discussed? Please remember, I am a writer and not a developer so, if I have to write code to get a feature, It won't happen.
See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WebHome
One area you can look at is scripting: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Scripting
Note that if you explain more specifically what you mean by "variables in the text" maybe can help you further…
Thanks -Vincent
Regards
John Murphy
On 22 November 2012 18:05, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:45 PM, John Murphy <[email protected]
wrote:
Hi, I am proposing to use XWiki to provide context sensitive help for a cloud application. It is likely that our channel partners will require their own branding of the product and supporting wiki, Therefore, my question is: does Xwiki have the functionality to use variables in the text? e.g. Company Name: [ACME | HAL | DEA]
Definitely, dynamism and configurability/extensiblity are the main strong points of XWiki.
Thanks -Vincent
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