Old discussion archived from CustomizableTopicTemplates

By way of "_TopicTemplate"...

The ability to customize the template used during creation of new topics has been requested. My implementation of this is to utilize a topic called _TopicTemplate, the content of which is used as the starting content of a new topic in the same namespace. If no _TopicTemplate topic exists in the current namespace, the _TopicTemplate topic of the default namespace will be used as the starting content of the new topic. If neither _TopicTemplate topic exists, the current starting content - defined in the source code itself - will be used.

A working implementation of this feature can be seen at http://www.laneve.com/FlexWiki , and this particular implementation of this feature requires only 9 lines of code added to the EditTopicPage.cs file.

Q: How did you do your implementation? I tried making such a topic, and it didn't work. The above link doesn't seem to be working either. This seems like such a simple thing that everyone would want: ability to set up templates, even if only 'one' template is allowed. If anyone has a way I can do this myself before next version, please let me know here. Thanks. -- ToddSturgeon, 2004-10-26

How 'bout giving users a choice of templates when they create a new page? You could take a set of templates all with a common naming convention (or you could have a WikiPageProperty in the ContentBaseDefinition that listed a bunch of topics that could be used as templates).

Yes...deep down I agree. Your description follows that of the OpenWiki implementation, and I really should have done it that way. I'll get back to work! -- RyanLaNeve