A PlugIn is a .NET assembly that extends the capabilities of FlexWiki's WikiTalk language.

To install a plugin, you add a reference to this assembly from the FlexWiki web.config file:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 <configuration>
   <configSections>
     <section name="flexWiki" type="FlexWiki.FlexWikiConfigurationSectionHandler, FlexWiki" />
   </configSections>
   <flexWiki>
     <plugins>
       <!-- Add <plugin> elements that identify plugins assemblies -->
       <plugin>AssemblyName1GoesHere</plugin>
       <plugin>AssemblyName2GoesHere</plugin>
       <plugin>AssemblyName3GoesHere</plugin>
     </plugins>
   </flexWiki>
   ...
   ...

You will need to make sure the assembly is accessible to the FlexWiki web process, either by placing it in the GAC or making it available in the local binaries directory for the FlexWiki ASP.NET installation.

Questions

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or obsolete documentation, so I haven't reported it on SourceForge yet. When I do the above, I get the following error message when accessing FlexWiki:

 Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section 'flexWiki'


 Source Error: 


 Line 1:  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 Line 2:  <configuration>
 Line 3:    <flexWiki>
 Line 4:     <plugins>
 Line 5:      <!-- Add <plugin> elements that identify plugins assemblies -->

Any ideas? -- DavidPeterson

You need to have at least build 1597 -- DavidOrnstein

The sample was missing the configSections portion of the configuration tag. -- Steve Mitcham

I'd love to get it, but the latest on SourceForge seems to be 1596, and I can't download via CVS from my location. -- DavidPeterson [2004-10-05]

I'm using build 1617 and I'm still getting this problem -- DerekLakin [13-Dec-2004]

When I upload a test plugin and add it to the Web.config file, all WikiTalk features, links, etc. (everything except "normal" text) gets replaced by "error evaluating expression: ?". Anybody ever got this? Is there a way to get a more detailed description of the problem? - Ludovic Chabant [01-25-2005]