docs.indy plugins notes

Currently installed plugins:

• DefaultPlugin: This plugin can be used to specify some simple custom rendering rules. It also renders depreciated *_text_* as bold italic text.
• SpreadSheetPlugin: Add spreadsheet calculation like "$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to tables located in Indymedia Documentation Project topics.
• CommentPlugin: Allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle.
• EditTablePlugin: Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
• InterwikiPlugin: Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the InterWikis^? topic
• SmiliesPlugin: Render smilies as icons, like  :-) for or  :cool: for
• TablePlugin: Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns

Some comments about the currently installed ones:

• DefaultPlugin - this is required for backwards compatibility
• SpreadSheetPlugin: REQUIRED - for the search facility in the WebTopBar
• CommentPlugin: now documented on HowTo#include_a_comments_box
• EditTablePlugin: now documented on HowTo#include_a_comments_box
• InterwikiPlugin: i think this is required -- GarconDuMonde
• SmiliesPlugin: bah!! DjRom liked this one too much

Plugins to disable

None.

Plugins to install

• TWiki:Plugins/SessionPlugin - allows for logout - verdict: ok for installation
  • apparently the same as https://wiki.boum.org/ which is pretty kool hack! still requires you to close the browser down, though, so i'm not sure if that much is gained... BTW, the boum setup is explained on Boum:TechStdOut/BoumTWikiSetup
  • on reading through TWiki:Plugins/SessionPlugin i came across Session Security: Stealing Session IDs: basically ip logging is required otherwise there is a big security hole.
  • in SessionPlugin.pm we can choose the directory where the session files, that contain IPs, are stored ; we can put this in a ramdisk and clean it everyday with tmpreaper
  • is integrated in Dakar
• TWiki:Plugins/AuthPagePlugin - again, allows for logout: you want to logout and login as another user [quote] - it is dependent on the SessionPlugin ; we can already logout using the SessionPlugin ; verdict: yes.
  • can create a link saying "logout" that logs you in as the imc-guest (anon user) automatically. problem solved
  • ahh... actually, this is not so good: firefox and other browsers give you a popup warning. hmmm. maybe not for installation.
  • is integrated in Dakar... maybe fixes firefox bug ?

Let's think about these ones

• TWiki:Plugins/HeadlinesPlugin - include rss feeds

• TWiki:Plugins/IrcLogPlugin - nice idea: the demo on http://twiki.org doesn't work anymore tho, so i don't actually know what it is like. verdict: undecided -- GarconDuMonde - 09 Apr 2005
  i found it!! it's in the cvs - see TWiki:Plugins/CVS - however, seems pretty complicated plugin.

• TWiki:Plugins/SpellerPagesPlugin : Spell checker based on Perl/JavaScript frontent to GNU Aspell and spellerpages

• TWiki:Plugins/TopicTranslationsPlugin

Probably DO NOT install

• TWiki:Plugins/TreePluginSamples - this seems very complicated to me and i guess would probably be beyond most users, hence i don't think this is a good plugin to install. verdict: NOT for installation (unless someone has specifically requested it somewhere?) -- GarconDuMonde - 09 Apr 2005
• TWiki:Plugins/CalendarPlugin - nice plugin, could be useful, but maybe we should be encouraging people to use http://protest.net? although i can definitely see the benefits as far as planning events goes... however, from TWiki:Plugins/CalendarPlugin : NB. This Plugin does not, and has never, observed topic permissions. i'm not sure if this would be a security concern that meaning that 'locked' pages (e.g. to TWikiAdminGroup or others) could be compromised? verdict: NOT for installation -- GarconDuMonde - 09 Apr 2005