Is the use of deck and cards (tabs) incompatible with the search function?

jim kennedy

We are trying out the tabs plugin (deck and cards macro) in our test Wiki. It seems to work great, but we are concerned about searching and linking:

1. Search: If some term is on, say, the fourth tab, a Wiki search for that term will find the page, but the link brings you to the default tab (which will usually be the first one). Is it possible to force the search to point to the fourth tab? If not, the search term effectively dooesn't yield good results.

2. Linking: Is it possible to link directly to a tab other than the default one? Otherwise we have to provide a link and tell the user to click on whichever tab we want to show them.

We are reluctant to roll this feature out to the full Wiki without resolving these issues.

Running Confluence 3.1.

Thanks,

Jim.

David Peterson

Hi Jim,

There isn't any way for a page to know what word was originally searched for by the user, so displaying the approriate tab is basically impossible in this case - there simply isn't the information required to do it by Confluence itself.

With regards to linking to a specific tab from another page, in the current version it is not possible, but for the version that will ship for Confluence 4.0, it will be possible by adding a '#TabLabel' type value to the URL. Check out the documentation for the plugin when it is released.

Regards,

David Peterson