You also may want to look at http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/TasksPlugin
dirk
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Murray Altheim <murray07@altheim.com> wrote:
> Amit Prahesh wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> Now, is it possible, out of the box, or via plugins, to dynamically
>> sift through the pages (like Employee*) and get information from them?
>> Like creating a list of employees grouped by department, or maybe
>> reporting their salaries, etc.
>
> As Janne mentioned, search is likely your best bet, if simplicity
> and not wanting to do additional development work are your priorities.
>
> The downside of search is that it is full text and does not take into
> account the context of a given word or phrase, i.e., if one searches
> on a term the search engine will find it anywhere on any wiki page.
> There is no current facility for searching on fields.
>
> I don't have any code available for distribution, but it's not
> particularly difficult to modify JSPWiki for fielded searches. The
> way I've approached this is to have a plugin that declares page-level
> metadata that is picked up the Lucene search engine as fields, then
> one can search on those fields.
>
> For example, a plugin might declare (via a form) the following metadata:
>
> __field name__ __field value__
> title : The Hound of the Baskervilles
> author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
> language : English
>
> You'd have your plugin declare these name-value pairs as page-level
> metadata, extend com.ecyrd.jspwiki.search.LuceneSearchProvider to
> read the page metadata and add that as new Document fields, then your
> users can search using
>
> title:baskervilles author:doyle
>
> etc.
>
> This isn't a trivial solution but it's not enormously difficult either.
> Lucene's indexing functionality is relatively easy to extend. Using
> this method one could use JSPWiki as a bibliographic or employee
> database, etc.. where each page (i.e., those containing fielded data)
> can serve as a database record. You could then add an additional
> search JSP to make searching on those fields easier.
>
> Murray
>
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