Introduction

For all intents and purposes this feature is now complete, but there are one or two variations that I'd like to gather everyone's feedback on.

The implementation of the feature adds an anchor tag (<a name="nameOfAnchor"></a>) for each WikiPageProperty in the topic. You can then add a link to a particular property in a topic by putting <TopicName>#<PropertyName>..

Options

This leads to several options when it comes to rendering the topic link:

1. Display the anchor in the rendered link e.g. AnchorTagFeature#RelatedFeatureRequests becomes <a href="AnchorTagFeature#RelatedFeatureRequests">AnchorTagFeature#RelatedFeatureRequests</a>
2. Hide the anchor in the rendered link e.g. AnchorTagFeature#RelatedFeatureRequests becomes <a href="AnchorTagFeature#RelatedFeatureRequests">AnchorTagFeature</a>
3. Hide the anchor in the rendered link as above, but display it in the topic tip.
4. Display the anchor in the rendered link for topics that don't exist yet ¹

¹ I don't see any merit in this option; the topic doesn't exist yet so the anchor is irrelevant. Once the topic has been created then the anchor would be displayed depending on what we decide from above.

AnchorTagFeature#Bug

"uuu": AnchorTagFeature#Summary

Yes,Very good

Really neat - nagendra

There are also two options with regard to hidden WikiPageProperties:

1. Render an anchor for hidden WikiPageProperties e.g. :Hidden: value becomes <a name="Hidden"></a>
2. Don't render anchors for hidden WikiPageProperties ²

² Personally I think this is particularly limiting and I don't think it would be too long before we started receiving FeatureRequests to implement this if we left it out -- DerekLakin [8-Feb-2005]

We could also automatically add anchors to other areas of the topic, such as headings, but my preference here is to err on the side of simplicity. You could always define hidden WikiPageProperties to define anchored sections.

Comments:

Comment

Does the anchor tag contain the HTML for the rendered property (assuming it's visible?) Or is it just going to be a singleton tag (<a name="nameOfAnchor"/>? -- PeterWieland

Using these links directly from the wiki page seems to work fine, but pasting them into IE or linking from the outside, like an e-mail, gives inconsistent results. -- BradWhite.Just Test -- Onemore.Test [2005-05-14]