Wiki Link Macro

Allows to render a link to a wiki page.

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Renders a link to a page in the wiki. It uses the delegate space or the search space for searching the page with the specified title.

This macro is usually relevant for template authors and documentation architects. It allows to reference the home page of a document type, without knowing exactly, where it is located.

Properties

Space Key

The key to the space the page is part of. If empty, the macro tries to find a page with the given page title on the delegate space.

Document

The title of the document to link to.

Overrides the page parameter.

Anchor

The Anchor allows to define a page fragment to reference on the target page.

The anchor value may have one of two forms:

  1. If the first character is a hashmark (#), then the anchor is used verbatim as fragment part of the generated URL
  2. If the first character is not a hashmark (#), then the anchor is a section title and a proper anchor is derived

So if the reference is to a section using the Section Macro, simply add the title of the section. If the user knows the identifier or anchor in the HTML code, use that identifier an put a hashmark (#) in front.

Label

The label to render instead of the page name.

If neither the document or page parameter is set, the label is used as a the page title.

Lower Case

When checked the label of the link is rendered in lower case.

This is especially useful for text in the English locale to appear in the body of a section.

Tooltip

Allows to override the tooltip which defaults to the short description provided by the referenced projectdoc document.

CSS Classes

The optional CSS classes to add to the link.

Automatic Classes

Space Closure

The space closure defines which spaces are to be considered for searching.

Valid values are

  • space-default
  • delegate-space
  • search-space
  • self-space (since 4.5)

Per default the delegate spaces are used. This is what the is most often needed: the location where new documents are stored per default is the location this macro will link to.

If you have a space that references the latest version of a product space, you may want to link to information to be found in any space. In this case the space contains the latest version of a space in its search space. Using this link will ensure that the latest version is linked.

The value self-space restricts the search to the local space, that is the space the the page with the macro is part of. This supports the use case where the template authors want to limit the search. 

Doctype Constraints

Referenced documents must match the doctype provided by this parameter to be considered a valid link target.

If a document does not meet the constraints or is not a projectdoc document, it is skipped while traversing the space closure (including the current space).

Render No Docs Style

Signal no existing docs in this space visually.

The projectdoc space renders homepages for doctypes. This flag checks if there is an index page for a given doctype.

Uncheck to suppress rendering the CSS style projectdoc-no-docs.

Since version 1.10.

Render Space Style

Signal space reference visually.

Uncheck to suppress rendering the CSS style projectdoc-space-reference.

Since version 1.10.

Link Render Control

Control how the link is rendered if the target document does not exist.

Valid values are:

create-link
Render a link to create a document (default)
empty
Render nothing
plain-text
Render the link label.

Empty if not exists

If checked, the link text will not be rendered, if the target page within the wiki does not exist.

Plain text if not exists

If checked, the link text will be rendered as plain text, if the target page within the wiki does not exist.

If the option "Empty if not exists" is selected, the text will not shown. That is: this option is overridden by the empty text option.

Abbreviation Mode

Renders the abbreviation or short name with the name as tooltip.

The following options are available:

OptionDescription
noneDoes not activate the abbreviation mode. The link uses the name to render the label and the document's short description as tooltip.
nameRenders the abbreviation or short name as label and the document's name as tooltip.
short-nameRenders the abbreviation or short name as label and the document's short name as tooltip.

Blueprint

The complete key of the page blueprint.

If omitted, the new page will be based on the empty page template.

Request Parameters

Request parameters allow to call a Remote Controlled Document (e.g. using the Display Table Macro).

The left side (value) of the parameter assignments will be URL encoded. The expected pattern is

id-x:name1=value A, value B&id-y:$<name2>=[some value]

Request Toggle Label

In case the macro adds request parameters it is able to react to a request that contains these request parameters with matching values. In case the macro is called on a page with its request parameters it will render the provided label and will not add its request parameter. This effectively allows the macro to toggle between two states: one in which the macro applies the request parameters and uses its standard label and one in which the request parameters are not applied and the toggle label is used.

Request Toggle Tooltip

Set the tooltip for the link when in the toggled state. This tooltip is only shown with the Request Toggle Label.

If the toggle state for Remote Control is not in use, this parameter has no effect. To enforce this feature the Request Parameters and the Request Toggle Label must be specified. Whenever the macro recognizes that its request parameters are set, it enters the toggle state.

Page

The name of the page to link to.

For template developers: This may be the key to the localized information. This is useful if you create blueprint projects with space blueprints.

The name may contain placeholders that are replaced by document or space properties.

The name may also contain special placeholder values that will be replaced:

PlaceholderDescription
@parentPageTitleIf the page has a parent page, the placeholder is replace with that page's title.
@spaceKeyThe placeholder is replaced with the page's space key.
@spaceNameThe placeholder is replaced with the page's space name.
/Signals to link to the space homepage.

Placeholders referencing the current date or time are not supported.

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Resources

Linking to Glossary Terms
Show how to use the Name List Macro to render links to glossary terms.
Doctype Instances Localization Mode
Controls how document instances are located in a space.