This is a feature for wiki that doesn't exist yet.

It would be nice to be able to include a property of a topic, not just a topic itself as you can with a WikiInclude.

Instead of saying:

 {SomeTopic}

perhaps you could say:

 {SomeTopic.Title}
 {SomeTopic.Body}
 {SomeTopic.Keywords}

This appears to work now (just discovered it 22-Dec-2003), though not with the syntax described above. Instead, enter something that looks like this:

 wiki://AbstractContentBase#Summary

This will let you include the Summary property of the AbstractContentBase document, as below:

• AbstractContentBase - A ContentBase is the things that holds a bunch of topics. Currently a ContentBase is backed by a set of files in a folder in the file system. An AbstractContentBase would be a generalization of this concept to allow for various kinds of storage "behind" the content base (e.g., SOAP, database).

This doesn't work in some cases, though. For example, using wiki://FlexWiki.AbstractContentBase#Summary doesn't work, nor does wiki://[Federation]#Summary. This feature could be useful for my WikiClassPages implementation, but currently these limitations are a bit severe, as they prevent me from fully-qualifying the topic I want to refer to as well as prevent me from showing a summary of a non-Wiki-named class.

-- RyanLaNeve

This shold actually be pretty easy to fix. The parsing is done with a simple regex in Formatter.cs. Just look for 'wiki:'. If you don't want to tackle this, you might add it to BugReports (which I consider this to be). -- DavidOrnstein

I'm going to be checking in Ryan's InterWikiBehavior code this afternoon, so I'll clean this up at the same time (and maybe the ConfigurationChecker suggestion from Omar, too). But it will be this afternoon (Pacific Time). Update: I'm not going to get to it today, so I'll add it to BugReports. -- TommyWilliams

Also, if the summary (or other property) has more than one paragraph (or it has a list) it is included as a single paragraph. So, if SomeProperty had something like this:

 SomeProperty:[
 A Definition and then 
 A separate paragraph and then a list
 *One
 *Two
 ]

This will be presented as this:

A Definition and then A separate paragraph and then a list One Two

I am using this to document a little project, separating each use case and each important function on separate pages. I use the summary (and a Description property in the case of the functions) of each page on a general plan page. This also helps us to include on each participant page the use case or function they are working on. Including just the property value allows me to include more text or references inside the Use Case page, without affecting the appearance of the general plan page.

Its unfortunate that I can’t make the Description property too fancy, because it will lose its format.