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[Andreas.Trawoeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi!

My problem with dokuwiki isn't creating tables my problem is how to maintain 
them in a sane way?

In a network documentation you have lots of small minimalistic changes every 
day. For that reasons most network documentation do suck (ours does too), 
because they are always out of date.

So what I'm looking for is a system that does allow to update the documentation 
literally after you plugged in the network cable.

Docuwiki is quite usefull for this task, because it can be used by multiple 
user with almost any device (it even does work on my Blackberry) and is quite 
easy to use.

Only thing I'm missing is an easier way to change a table entry in row 6, 
column 27 from 'foo' to 'bar'.

Having to use an external tool for that would make things a lot more 
complicated (= nobody will do it).

cu andreas

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----- Original Message -----
From: dokuwiki-bounce
Sent: 15.09.2005 18:26
To: <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [dokuwiki] Re: handling large tables

How about allowing HTML in the wiki, and using another tool to
create/manage/edit your tables?  I think you can export clean
(no-extra-MS-markup-crap) tables from Excel (HTML only), otherwise
perhaps the spreadsheet of OpenOffice?

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-----Original Message-----
From: dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Andreas.Trawoeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 12 September, 2005 21:09
To: dokuwiki
Subject: [dokuwiki] handling large tables


Hi!

I have the following problem where I need some advice:

I'm currently writing the documentation for a large Cisco Switch with 12
Modules with 16, 24 or 48 Ports each.

It's pretty easy to put all the port names, vlan information & cable
tagging into a table in OpenOffice and convert them to docuwiki format
or
use the CSV plugin for the same purpose.

But what's the best way to edit the tables afterwards? If I plug a new
server into Module 6, Port 27 of the switch, I have to update the table
at
exactly that spot.

Editing tables in Wiki Syntax is quite error prone, if tables are quite
large. But if I haven't missed anything, Dokuwiki doesn't have any
support
to make edititing tables any easier.

So any suggestion, or tips how to write a template or plugin to make
table
handling any easier would be welcomed.

cu andreas


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