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PluginList format control block


The FORMAT control block is used to create individually formatted objects that can then be used in any of the individual OUTPUT methods.

Available filters

Name Description Boolean Sample Tiki Version
default Display a default value or a default file when no value is available no "empty", "1140" (fileId) -
format format the displayed value to something different that the db value (human readable) no "trackerrender", "date", "objectlink", etc. (see format parameters here) -
editable Make the field editable so the value can be changed from the results display. Inline editing (found in admin control panels => trackers) must be enable. Must be used in conjunction with the trackerrender format (see above) and may require mode="raw" when using it with the table output template} editable="inline" -
The jQuery Sortable Tables feature must be activated for the sort feature to work.


Note that in some cases the field that will be displayed has its own behavior and it can clash with the format you selected.
IE: A tracker field that is a "title" is pre-formatted as a link. If you set the format as "objectlink" (or you set the display inside a link) the display will end broken as Tiki will try to display a link inside a link.

For the default parameter, it's important to remember that the tracker field "Files" works a bit differently than the others with this parameter. The tracker field Files expect an Id from the File Gallery. When most of the other fields type will display the text of the default parameters the default for "Files" must be an existing file in a gallery. The file can be an "anonymous" portrait file or a plain white image or an image with only the text "Not Available", etc. Whatever you feel right for your usage.

Basic example

In most of the examples shown in PluginList output control block and PluginList advanced output control block you will see a FORMAT control block have been used. E.g. in the example shown for Table output as below, two FORMAT control blocks are used:

Sample using the default table formatting
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{LIST()} {filter type="trackeritem"} {filter content="water"} {OUTPUT(template="table")} {column field="title_link" sort="title" label="Title" mode="raw"} {column field="description" label="Description"} {column field="event_date" sort="tracker_field_18" label="Event Date"} {OUTPUT} {FORMAT(name="title_link")}{display name="title" format="objectlink"}{FORMAT} {FORMAT(name="event_date")}{display name="tracker_field_18" format="date"}{FORMAT} {LIST}


The first FORMAT control block defines an object with the name title_link that is displayed in a specific way - this object reference is then used in the column control block in the body of the table OUTPUT. Similarly the second FORMAT control block defines the event_date object which is also used in a column control block.

A similar use of the FORMAT control block allows the normal set of Smarty variables, eg {user} etc, to be made available in Smarty templates - for example:

Format example to reference a normal smarty variable
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{FORMAT(name="theuser")} { {user} } {FORMAT}
 Note
The double brackets ( {{}} ) around user should have no spaces between them. Spaces are used here only to keep the user variable from being interpreted.

This creates a reference object theuser with the userId of the current user which can then be invoked in a server stored smarty template using the variable {$row.theuser}.

Examples of the use of the FORMAT control block (format and default value)

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{LIST()} {filter field="tracker_id" content="1"} {filter field="tracker_status" content="o"} {OUTPUT()} {DIV(class="h3")}{display name="name"}{DIV} {display name="photo"}%%% {display name="email"} {OUTPUT} {FORMAT(name="name")}{display name="tracker_field_userName"}{FORMAT} {FORMAT(name="photo")}{display name="tracker_field_userPhoto" format="trackerrender" default="1140"}{FORMAT} {FORMAT(name="location")}{display name="tracker_field_userLocation" format="trackerrender" default="Unknown"}{FORMAT} {LIST}


Default parameter applied on the "photo" field will display a default generic image if not file found.
Default parameter applied on the "location" field will display the text "Unknown" if the field is empty.

Example with comments


You might want to display all comments, and this script will retrieve them:

Wiki Output Sample
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{LIST(cache="n")} {filter type="comment"} {pagination max="10"} {OUTPUT( template="table")} {column field="title"} {column field="comment_content"} {column field="object_link" mode="raw"} {column field="date"} {OUTPUT} {FORMAT( name="object_link")} {display name="object_id" format="objectlink"} {FORMAT} {sort mode="date_desc"} {LIST}

The FORMAT control block defines an object with the name object_link which is displayed in such a way that it is object_id which is displayed and formatted as objectlink; which makes the id clickable. This object reference is then used in the column control block in the body of the OUTPUT table.
This gives us the following result:

Title Comment Thread Id Date
database charset issue I thought, that setting default_charset = "utf-8" in PHP.INI would deal with database charset issue , but it hasn't helped, so I've had to revert back to "set names utf8", as described in my comments out there... Any ideas on that? 474 2007-07-25 11:20:53
Re: SIMPLE WAY TO PUT GOOGLE ADSENSE IN YOUR TIKIWIKI Hey, Francisco Javier (=oliverartur?), thanks for the tip! Feel free to add more tutorials and howto's in doc.tw.o! 😊 And Welcome to tikiwiki Community! 😊 469 2007-07-22 12:03:03
SIMPLE WAY TO PUT GOOGLE ADSENSE IN YOUR TIKIWIKI THERE IS A SIMPLE WAY TO PUT GOOGLE ADSENSE IN YOUR TIKIWIKI Due TikiWiki usues the Smarty Template System you need to use the proper tags, but it's very simple. In my case I've created a folder inside my TikiWiki root called "adsense". Follow this simple steps: 1). Make a file that contains your Google Adense code and save it as you like with the .htm extension. (in my case "VinculosDer.htm") 2). Go to Admin -> Modules in your TikiWiki and Create a new module with name and title yow desire but with the Data: as in my case make sure your path match with your adsense file previously created. 3). Assign the module. (Right Border in My case) THAT'S IT!!! You can see this working in my TikiWiki Site at: http://www.colombiatech.com/miembros Best Regards... Francisco Javier Palomino Webmaster ColombiaTech 468 2007-07-21 21:33:26
Install by hand? How do you install a mod by hand? 445 2007-07-11 22:21:56
Re: documentation for editor problems Your screen may look different, depending on which theme you're using. Normally, the QuickLinks are not shown, by default. You'll need to click in order to show them HTH -R > I've not been able to find any documentation to explain what to do when the editor page doesn't look as described/shown on this page. After installing three times, I can't get the quicklinks to show when 'edit' page button is clicked. I don't know if this is a configuration problem or an installation problem or just a bug. Can anyone help? 443 2007-07-10 19:10:04
HTML Pages I could not find any useful reference how to include / import HTML. The only thing I could do to copy-paste the HTML code to the body of the Wikipage and check the "allow HTML" checkbox. For simple HTML structures it worked, but for more complex ones the results were unstatisfactory. How to point to a local HTML file so it can be opened..? Thanks in Advance! 437 2007-07-05 13:20:11
Re: documentation for editor problems > I've not been able to find any documentation to explain what to do when the editor page doesn't look as described/shown on this page. After installing three times, I can't get the quicklinks to show when 'edit' page button is clicked. I don't know if this is a configuration problem or an installation problem or just a bug. Can anyone help? I'm quite new to Wiki but the Editor looks a bit different for me as well, even if most problems were eliminated by allowing the items in the Feature list and allow to use them by the appropriate groups. 436 2007-07-05 13:05:15
Re: wysiwyg > I've installed 1.9.7 too and i followed the instructions posted here: > http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=wysiwyg > > Either way i can't enable it in the wiki admin page. No idea myself, Gelo. I never tried using wysiwyg in 1.9.x (it's very limited and not compatible with wiki markup in some other pages of the same Tiki site). In 1.10 it seems to be much better... (I'd suggest you to wait for 1.10.0 to be released...., whenever this happens - no idea when) Cheers 423 2007-06-11 17:54:00
wysiwyg I've installed 1.9.7 too and i followed the instructions posted here: http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=wysiwyg Either way i can't enable it in the wiki admin page. 422 2007-06-10 15:26:06
documentation for editor problems I've not been able to find any documentation to explain what to do when the editor page doesn't look as described/shown on this page. After installing three times, I can't get the quicklinks to show when 'edit' page button is clicked. I don't know if this is a configuration problem or an installation problem or just a bug. Can anyone help? 415 2007-06-08 07:41:48


We see that this only gives us the information about the object (the comment in this case), but what if I want to have more information before visiting the comment?

One way to do this is to add a column which indicates the item being commented on. It is typically a wiki page or tracker item which is clickable and takes me there.

So let's make some changes and see what we have:

Wiki Output Sample
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{LIST(cache="n")} {filter type="comment"} {pagination max="10"} {OUTPUT( template="table")} {column field="contributors"} {column field="title"} {column field="comment_content"} {column field="parent_object_title" mode="raw"} {column field="object_link" mode="raw"} {column field="date"} {OUTPUT} {FORMAT( name="object_link")} {display name="object_id" format="objectlink"} {FORMAT} {FORMAT( name="parent_object_title")} {display name="parent_object_type"}: {display name="wikiplugin_objectlink" format="wikiplugin" type="parent_object_type" id="parent_object_id"} {FORMAT} {sort mode="date_desc"} {LIST}

Here we have just added a new column whose label is "Parent Object".
The new FORMAT control block formats the parent_object_title field, which is the title of the comment's parent object, then with {display} tag we first display the name of the parent object, which is stored in the parent_object_type field. For example, if the parent object is a trackeritem, it will display "trackeritem:", and finally we display the link to the parent object, using the wikiplugin_objectlink plugin. This plugin allows you to create a link to a Tiki object according to its type and its identifier. Here you specify the link format as "wikiplugin", the object type as parent_object_type, and the object id as parent_object_id. For example, if the parent object is a trackeritem with id 1, this will generate a link to "tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=1".
So you get a field that displays the name and link of the comment's parent object. For example, if the comment is linked to an item called "This is my first item", you display "trackeritem: This is my first item".
This gives us the following result:

Title Comment Parent Object Thread Id Date
database charset issue I thought, that setting default_charset = "utf-8" in PHP.INI would deal with database charset issue , but it hasn't helped, so I've had to revert back to "set names utf8", as described in my comments out there... Any ideas on that? wiki page: Requirements 474 2007-07-25 11:20:53
Re: SIMPLE WAY TO PUT GOOGLE ADSENSE IN YOUR TIKIWIKI Hey, Francisco Javier (=oliverartur?), thanks for the tip! Feel free to add more tutorials and howto's in doc.tw.o! 😊 And Welcome to tikiwiki Community! 😊 wiki page: AdSense 469 2007-07-22 12:03:03
SIMPLE WAY TO PUT GOOGLE ADSENSE IN YOUR TIKIWIKI THERE IS A SIMPLE WAY TO PUT GOOGLE ADSENSE IN YOUR TIKIWIKI Due TikiWiki usues the Smarty Template System you need to use the proper tags, but it's very simple. In my case I've created a folder inside my TikiWiki root called "adsense". Follow this simple steps: 1). Make a file that contains your Google Adense code and save it as you like with the .htm extension. (in my case "VinculosDer.htm") 2). Go to Admin -> Modules in your TikiWiki and Create a new module with name and title yow desire but with the Data: as in my case make sure your path match with your adsense file previously created. 3). Assign the module. (Right Border in My case) THAT'S IT!!! You can see this working in my TikiWiki Site at: http://www.colombiatech.com/miembros Best Regards... Francisco Javier Palomino Webmaster ColombiaTech wiki page: AdSense 468 2007-07-21 21:33:26
Install by hand? How do you install a mod by hand? wiki page: Mods User 445 2007-07-11 22:21:56
Re: documentation for editor problems Your screen may look different, depending on which theme you're using. Normally, the QuickLinks are not shown, by default. You'll need to click in order to show them HTH -R > I've not been able to find any documentation to explain what to do when the editor page doesn't look as described/shown on this page. After installing three times, I can't get the quicklinks to show when 'edit' page button is clicked. I don't know if this is a configuration problem or an installation problem or just a bug. Can anyone help? wiki page: Wiki Page Editor 443 2007-07-10 19:10:04
HTML Pages I could not find any useful reference how to include / import HTML. The only thing I could do to copy-paste the HTML code to the body of the Wikipage and check the "allow HTML" checkbox. For simple HTML structures it worked, but for more complex ones the results were unstatisfactory. How to point to a local HTML file so it can be opened..? Thanks in Advance! wiki page: Wiki Page Editor 437 2007-07-05 13:20:11
Re: documentation for editor problems > I've not been able to find any documentation to explain what to do when the editor page doesn't look as described/shown on this page. After installing three times, I can't get the quicklinks to show when 'edit' page button is clicked. I don't know if this is a configuration problem or an installation problem or just a bug. Can anyone help? I'm quite new to Wiki but the Editor looks a bit different for me as well, even if most problems were eliminated by allowing the items in the Feature list and allow to use them by the appropriate groups. wiki page: Wiki Page Editor 436 2007-07-05 13:05:15
Re: wysiwyg > I've installed 1.9.7 too and i followed the instructions posted here: > http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=wysiwyg > > Either way i can't enable it in the wiki admin page. No idea myself, Gelo. I never tried using wysiwyg in 1.9.x (it's very limited and not compatible with wiki markup in some other pages of the same Tiki site). In 1.10 it seems to be much better... (I'd suggest you to wait for 1.10.0 to be released...., whenever this happens - no idea when) Cheers wiki page: WYSIWYG 423 2007-06-11 17:54:00
wysiwyg I've installed 1.9.7 too and i followed the instructions posted here: http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=wysiwyg Either way i can't enable it in the wiki admin page. wiki page: WYSIWYG 422 2007-06-10 15:26:06
documentation for editor problems I've not been able to find any documentation to explain what to do when the editor page doesn't look as described/shown on this page. After installing three times, I can't get the quicklinks to show when 'edit' page button is clicked. I don't know if this is a configuration problem or an installation problem or just a bug. Can anyone help? wiki page: Wiki Page Editor 415 2007-06-08 07:41:48

Using Font Awesome icons instead of content depending on the value of the field content


Tweaking the sample above and using font awesome (integrated in Tiki) you can display corresponding icons for a content.
In this demo case we have a tracker with a "gender" field that hold 2 values, "male" or "female". There is a "male" and a "female" icon in Font Awesome and as both use the same term we can assign it to a div type icon and class.

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{LIST()} {filter field="tracker_id" content="42"} {OUTPUT(template="table")} {column label="Title" field="title" sort="title"} {column label="Gender" field="gender"} {OUTPUT} {FORMAT(name="gender")}{DIV(type=i class=fa fa-{display name="tracker_field_gender"})}{DIV}{FORMAT} {LIST}

Editable inline sample using the table template

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{column label="First Name" field="firstName" mode=raw} ... {FORMAT(name="firstName")}{display name="tracker_field_firstName" format=trackerrender editable=inline}{FORMAT}

Editable inline sample in a smarty (or wiki) template

In this wikiplugin embedded in a smarty (or wiki) template the field is set to be editable inline (note: format="trackerrender" is required ad well as the Inline editing (found in admin control panels=>trackers)

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{wikiplugin _name=list} {literal} {filter content="2" field="tracker_id"} {output(template="mytemplate.tpl")} {ALTERNATE()} empty {ALTERNATE} {FORMAT(name="name")}{display name="tracker_field_name" editable="inline" format="trackerrender" default=""}{FORMAT} {/literal} {/wikiplugin}


So the 2nd column uses a FORMAT plugin where the contents of the field in question, tracker_field_data, is used as the class for a div but the default (used if the data field is empty) is set to be the bootstrap class "hidden" so the contents, the check mark, only appears if there is some data.

Obviously if the data is the name of some other class weird stuff might happen, but for most usual cases, it works as expected and saves having to make a new smarty template just for this simple list.

(Tip and example taken from a message from JonnyB in the developers list - thanks!)

Using Font Awesome icons instead of content depending on the value of the field content


Tweaking the sample above and using font awesome (integrated in Tiki) you can display corresponding icons for a content.
In this demo case we have a tracker with a "gender" field that hold 2 values, "male" or "female". There is a "male" and a "female" icon in Font Awesome and as both use the same term we can assign it to a div type icon and class.

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{LIST()} {filter field="tracker_id" content="42"} {OUTPUT(template="table")} {column label="Title" field="title" sort="title"} {column label="Gender" field="gender"} {OUTPUT} {FORMAT(name="gender")}{DIV(type=i class=fa fa-{display name="tracker_field_gender"})}{DIV}{FORMAT} {LIST}

It will display a
if the content of the field = male and a
if the content of the field = female.


When you use a template to display your plugin list you want other item related or linked to the item to open using the same template (or another it doesn't matter) but not to open the trackers built-in system. For this you need to enable the Alias feature and set it to use the template to display the tracker item, "record-" for this sample.

When you use an item link to link an item to other item (related, friend of, etc.) this is a kind of a problem.
Item link has 2 option to display and item link. Value and Link.
Value display the id of the content (ie: 6).
Link display the value of the content linked to the tracker item (ie: Bernard).

Your link should be like:

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[record-6|Bernard]

So it open the item "Id6" in the "record-" template showing the value "Bernard" for the link.
To achieve this you need to create and use 2 row.

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{FORMAT(name="name")}{display name="tracker_field_contact" format=trackerrender}{FORMAT} {FORMAT(name="id")}{display name="tracker_field_contact"}{FORMAT}


The first one with format=trackerrender will display the content of the tracker Item Link field as it is shown in the tracker (Bernard).
The second one without the format=trackerrender will show the real value for this field (6).

The assemble your link as follow:

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[record-{display name="id"}|{display name="name"}]

It will complete the trick and open the item 6 using the record- template while the link displayed will show the right value, Bernard.

All the LIST Plugin control blocks