End User Overview

WikiTalk is FlexWiki's special scripting language for producing dynamic content in FlexWiki topics. The language comes with a set of built in services, but is extensible. A PlugIn is code which is installed and configured separately from FlexWiki that extends this set of built in services in WikiTalk.

Administrator Overview

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A FlexWiki plugin is delivered in a .NET assembly. Installing a PlugIn for use with FlexWiki is easy. First, get the assembly on the FlexWiki machine. Then update the web.config file to include a reference to the assembly. More details are available in PlugInInstallation.

Developer Overview

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WikiTalk exposes a specific set of .NET classes so that they can be accessed directly from Wiki pages. For example, there is a .NET class in the FlexWiki engine called TopicInfo. This class is "exposed" in the WikiTalk language, along with a specific set of properties and methods. The WikiTalk engine "knows" about all of the WikiTalk-exposed classes in the core FlexWiki engine assembly and will make all of these classes available in WikiTalk.

If you want to add custom functionality to WikiTalk, the easiest way is to add new ExposedClasses in a new assembly and then configure FlexWiki to load this PlugIn. See PlugInInstallation to learn how to teach FlexWiki about the PlugIn. For a quick walkthrough about how to create a PlugIn, see HowToCreateAPlugIn.