Item2475: Ability to write content to a topic instead of attachment

AttachContentPlugin has been very useful: generating CSV files for import into other databases/spreadsheets, for example.

I have been using it in another, very ugly kind of way and I know I'm not the only one doing it: generating a .txt topic as an attachment, and then symlinking that file into my /data directory - to save a search result as static content to be INCLUDEd in parts of our skin customisation (web lists).

I now need to generate/update topics in a wiki application (form builder thing) which will be used by ordinary users, so maintaining symlinks from /pub is out of the question. I've been hacking AttachContentPlugin to provide a %STARTTOPIC%=/=%ENDTOPIC% feature.

Question:

• Should this be a new GenerateTopicPlugin, or just extend AttachContentPlugin?

-- PaulHarvey - 08 Dec 2009

The plugins API doesn't have a real interface to UI::Save. In retrospect it would be safer for my application to just build a form that will POST to the save script in the browser.

Already documented at BestPracticeTip5

-- PaulHarvey - 09 Dec 2009