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Leigh B. Stoller authored
Okay, I implemented a primitive Knowledge Base! The current contents are *all* the existing FAQ entries, which I entered manually. Here are the details. * My reason for doing this is that we need something very simple. The wiki is too much of a barrier, and its search capabilities are pathetic. * The search page for the Knowledge Base is: https://www.emulab.net/kb-search.php3 Fairly primitive keyword search. Turns out that mysql 4.0 has a bunch for really good text searching functions built in, but we run 3.23 ... so I had to roll it myself. So, its a simple keyword (space or comma separated) search, no regular expressions. * Each DB record has a "faq_entry" flag, so creating the current FAQ on the fly from the DB is easy. See: https://www.emulab.net/kb-faq.php3 * In reddot mode, you can add new KB entries: https://www.emulab.net/kb-manage.php3 The form is fairly obvious but here are details anyway: Section Name: Choose an existing title, or make up a new one. Title: The title of the KB (or FAQ) entry. Faq Entry: Check this box if the new entry should show up in the FAQ. X Ref Tag: A token so you can refer to other KB entries by name, instead of by its index. Within the KB entry you would write: <a href=kb-show.php3?xref_tag=sometag> Body: Whatever you like. I took the existing FAQ entries and stuck them with no changes except for the xref_tag mentioned about (since some entries referenced other entries). * Once you click on sumbit, you will see the entry as it will appear to users, along with a submenu to Modify/Delete/Add entries. You can modify the current entry from that menu. Mere users do not see this menu, only when in reddot mode. * The intent here is that we can generate new entries really easy, right from email if you like (with appropriate <pre> or <xmp> tags around it). * I have added sql/knowlbase-create.sql and a makefile target to generate that file when creating a distribution. I also added a section to install/boss-install to insert the entries into the new DB. * I hooked the search function into the existing Search Documentation link. We know search both the Knowledge Base *and* the Documentation on doc searches. This probably needs a little more work to get right. * I changed a lot of faq links to be more consistent and to reference the proper xref_tags (#swapping instead of #UTT-34).
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