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 ........................................................................... Murray Altheim <murray07 at altheim.com> === = = http://www.altheim.com/murray/ = = === SGML Grease Monkey, Banjo Player, Wantanabe Zen Monk = = = = Boundless wind and moon - the eye within eyes, Inexhaustible heaven and earth - the light beyond light, The willow dark, the flower bright - ten thousand houses, Knock at any door - there's one who will respond. -- The Blue Cliff Record
