Item10353: Enhance WebTopicList page with more info

Where I work, I have enhanced the WebTOpicList page in many webs by adding the followingcoe

---+ <nop>%WEB% Web Topic List
There are %CALC{$SET(topics, $LISTSIZE(%TOPICLIST{separator=", "}%))$GET(topics)}% topics in the <nop>%WEB% web.

This provides a title (something that I personally think every page should have) as well as a count of the number of topics. (I used to select all and paste into an editor and get the line count. Why not let the wiki do the work for me?!)

-- VickiBrown - 14 Feb 2011

This could be done by changing TOPICLIST to SEARCH query , that will return the number of items in $index that can be set in a header.

-- ArthurClemens - 14 Feb 2011

Compared to SEARCH, TOPICLIST is quite fast actually. Just compare WebIndex with WebTopicList... I had to disable WebIndex on some sites just for performance reasons.

Another idea to count the topics is to change the unordered list into an ordered one in System.WebTopicList:

Before:

%TOPICLIST{"   * [[%BASEWEB%.$name][$name]]"}%

After:

%TOPICLIST{"   1 [[%BASEWEB%.$name][$name]]"}%

-- MichaelDaum - 15 Feb 2011

If SEARCH only searches topic names, why would it be so slow?

-- ArthurClemens - 15 Feb 2011

Just the overhead of search. Setting this to No Action. Adding anything to WebTopicList that might decrease its speed on large webs is probably a bad idea. On a test web with 2700 topics, my system has been looping a non-paged WebIndex for some minutes, required probably 2+ minutes. The WebTopicList was around 10 seconds And these were done as an admin, so no topic ACL checking was necessary.

-- GeorgeClark - 06 Jan 2015

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