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Frequently Asked Questions

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Installation

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Setup

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Security

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Registration or Authentication or Authorisation

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Editing

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Templates

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Email and Notifications

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Extension

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Errors

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Development

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Debugging

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General

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Foswiki administration

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Developing extensions

pencil Create a new FAQ (Please only create new FAQ's for questions that have answers, and have been asked repeatedly)

see also System.FrequentlyAskedQuestions



What follows is the code used to render the list of FAQs above and is only visible to AdminGroup. It grabs all the FAQ's with one search (rather than repeating the search for each section) and then splits them up by subject area. This reduced the load time for the FAQ topic by about 2/3rds. -- LynnwoodBrown - 18 Apr 2015

Render Each FAQ Subject Area

Parameters:
  • QUESTIONLIST - required - formatted hash of all topics with the selected status. See grabQuestions section below for info on how the individual topic data is structured.

%STARTSECTION{"subjects"}%
%FORMATLIST{"Installation, Setup, Security, Registration or Authentication or Authorisation, Editing, Templates, Email and Notifications, Search, Extension, Errors, Development, Debugging"
   split=", "
   separator=" $n"
   format="$percntFORMATLIST{\"$percntQUESTIONLIST$percnt\" 
                         split=\"##\" 
                         pattern=\"(.*?)~(.*?)~(.*)\" 
                         include=\".*?$1.*?~.*\" 
                         null=\"\"
                         header=\"<div style='float:left;position:relative;top:1em;'><a href='#PageTop' title='Return to top'>$dollarpercntICON{arrowup}$dollarpercnt</a></div> $dollarn---++ $1  
         $dollarn\"
                         format=\"   * [[$dollar2][$dollar3]]\"
                         separator=\"$dollarn\"
         }$percnt"
}%
%ENDSECTION{"subjects"}%

Get all FAQs

This section grabs all FAQs at one time. For each record, it renders a set of topic information separated by tildas (~) as follows: "formfield(Subject)~web.topic~formfield(TopicTitle)".
%STARTSECTION{"grabQuestions"}%%SEARCH{"TopicClassification='FrequentlyAskedQuestion'"
   excludetopic="FaqTemplate"
   web="%WEB%,%SYSTEMWEB%"
   type="query"
   format="$formfield(Subject)~$web.$topic~$percntENCODE{\"$formfield(TopicTitle)\" type=\"quote\"}$percnt"
   nonoise="on" 
  separator="##"
}%%ENDSECTION{"grabQuestions"}%
Topic revision: r19 - 03 Nov 2015, LynnwoodBrown
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