Wiki Button

A __wiki-button__ is a variant of the HTL5 wiki-form which displays only the button element fo the form.

It has quite a nice clean look, and the html combined with a transporter that receives the posted data (often as a json-rpc post), is able to reply with a ghost-page in the usual manner.

# Use We currently use __wiki-button__s to do things like updating rosters, or other indices. This use is part of the freeze and thaw metaphor for wiki.

# Examples In this example we provide a __wiki-button__ that creates a page loaded with the most recent sites for a particular domain:

  

For a full description of how this wiki-button works, together with customisation options take a look at the Update Index and Roster page which describes that tool in more detail.

# Future We expect that the future direction will involve a meger of the current About Transport Plugin and these wiki-forms, with a DSL that enables us to create flexible and powerful tools in wiki with ease.