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Summary

A URL-based method for extracting just the body of a WikiTopic, to include in another website or Word, for example.

Coming soon. It works I just haven't documented it yet. -- DavidOrnstein

Useful for when you want to EmbedWikiContentInWordDocuments.

Any chance on getting some documentation on this yet? -- MikeLinnen

This isn't really documentation but a starting point:

To get just the content of a page for inclusion into Word, use a URL of the form:

 http://www.flexwiki.com/blade.aspx?topics=WikiBlade&properties=_Body

In this example, "WikiBlade" can be replaced with a comma separated list of Wiki topic names (page names) and "_Body" can be replaced by a comma separated list of page properties. If someone can add an enumeration of typically useful page properties that would be great!

Issues

Question

Is it possible to use blade.aspx to grab a page from a different NameSpace?

Answer

Yes. Type in the NameSpace and a period before the topic name:

 http://www.flexwiki.com/blade.aspx?topics=PlayGround.HomePage&properties=_Body

There's a major problem when there are topics in the text due to the TopicTips. They're implemented as in-line HTML enclosed in a <span> set to be invisible (using CSS). This disappears when the content goes into Word and the TopicTips text is inlined.

The paragraph above looks like this in Word:

There's a major problem when there are topics in the text due to the TopicTips are little hovering baloons over a link to a topic that tell you about that topic.

2/22/2004 9:04:35 AM - mlinnen@cox.net-68.3.97.38

TopicTips. They're implemented as in-line HTML enclosed in a <span> set to be invisible (using CSS). This disappears when the content goes into Word and the TopicTips are little hovering baloons over a link to a topic that tell you about that topic. 2/22/2004 9:04:35 AM - mlinnen@cox.net-68.3.97.38 TopicTips text is inlined.

-- TommyWilliams

Question

Is there any way to get all of the instances of a property on page using the WikiBlade? We may be using this incorrectly but are keeping a page of questions and answers with each question as a new property. Using the WikiBlade and specifying the properties as Question, we get only the last one on the page. Thanks!

There also seems to be a problem with Blade recognizing functions. [Nov. 12, 2005] -- AstralisLux

Why does WikiBlade return the html body tag with scroll='no'? Is scrolling bad for some reason? [Jun. 30, 2006]

Good question. Does anyone know? [Oct. 8, 2007]