Dynamic referencesTopic

Hi there,

Can actually referencesTopic be dynamic? For instance, for each bibliography entry I create a separate page, e.g. ArticleEntryAUTOINC1001 (to attach various versions of an article as pdf, latex etc). Then in a dedicated topic, e.g. BibliographyTable, I can create a table of all ArticleEntryAUTOINC1001 entries with %SEARCH% selection. This will generate dynamic table of all my entries, where first cell can be a citation key.

If I now specify my BibliographyTable as referencesTopic - will it work?
Is there a way to make it working

Thanks.

-- ValentinKozlov - 12 Oct 2011

The Bibliography bit I don't know about but SEARCH can be like this:

| *TOPIC* | *SOMEFIELD* |
%SEARCH{ "name=~'ArticleEntry\d+'" type="query" format=" | $topic | $formfield(AnyField) |" }%

Here's a patch that might help (untested):

diff --git a/BibliographyPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BibliographyPlugin/Core.pm b/BibliographyPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BibliographyPlugin/Core.pm
index a636a85..f326815 100644
--- a/BibliographyPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BibliographyPlugin/Core.pm
+++ b/BibliographyPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BibliographyPlugin/Core.pm
@@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ sub _parseBibliographyTopics {
             my $text = $topicObject->text();
 
             if ($text) {
+                require Foswiki::Func;
+                $text = Foswiki::Func::expandCommonVariables( $text, $topic, $web, $topicObject );
 
                 # Use a $fh rather than loope over a split(/[\r\n]+/
                 # ... so we save a little memory

Please raise a task at BibliographyPlugin if you need more help.

For what it's worth, we're trying to get SemanticLinksPlugin working as a SEARCHable replacement for BibliographyPlugin, for example: http://testwiki.trin.org.au/Mangroves/Bibliography/, http://testwiki.trin.org.au/Mangroves/Ceriops_australis

This-work-in-progress can be found at http://trac.foswiki.org/browser/trunk/BibtexFormfieldPlugin/ or http://svn.foswiki.org/trunk/BibtexFormfieldPlugin/

-- PaulHarvey - 29 Oct 2011