Hi Tapio,
unfortunately I don't see any "easy" solution for your use case. You could
indeed try to have a velocity macro to achieve this:
{{velocity}}
#if($doc.space == "SomeValue")
display line
#end
{{/velocity}}
But it will complicated to maintain for all your content.
Best,
Guillaume
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Tapio Seppälä
<tapio.sepp...@quanttos.fi>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been looking for a long time a solution how to exclude some text from
> the source, when linked to another page, but haven't found it yet.
>
> We use XWiki as base of our help system for several applications. There are
> a lots of common topics which have the same, or almost the same content on
> each application help. So we built 'mother' pages of help which each and
> other different applications help then are using by linking to them. Header
> based tagging (we use XWiki syntax 2.1) is very user friendly for this
> purpose. The problem is, there are slight variations in the content of the
> text here and there between the applications.
>
> An example:
>
> There is a page explaining some settings of an application containing some
> 200 rows of text. Most, but not all of the rows are the same. I might then
> like to do something like include the whole page in app #1 help, excluding
> only rows 33, 52 and 55 from the page, but include them still to some other
> app's help, and so on...
>
> I imagine the above could be done with some smart tags, macros and links,
> but as I am not a developer, so I can't do that and haven't found a
> solution. A few years ago we used syntax 1.0, and if I remember right,
> there
> was a possibility to include e.g. a sentence with tags, but not to exclude
> anything inside the linked part of the text.
>
> It is very irritating to copy and paste large amounts of text to different
> pages with only slight differences between them. And then again, when the
> 'root' text has some change, e.g. a setting common to all apps changes, you
> have go and edit each of the pages created with copy-paste. This could be
> avoided if there was a way to include and exclude tagged text other than
> just between the headings.
>
> ---
>
> best regards
>
> Tapio Seppala
>
> P.S. Congratulations for the 10-year old!
>
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