Trac Macros
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Trac macros extend Trac with custom functionality. Macros are a special type of plugin and are written in Python. A macro generates HTML in any context supporting WikiFormatting.
The macro syntax is [[macro-name(optional-arguments)]]
.
WikiProcessors are another kind of macro, commonly used for source code highlighting using a processor like !#python
or !#apache
:
{{{#!wiki-processor-name ... }}}
Using Macros
Macro calls are enclosed in double-square brackets [[..]]
. Like Python functions macros can have arguments, which take the form of a comma separated list within parentheses [[..(,)]]
. A common macro used is a list of the 3 most recent changes to a wiki page, or here, for example, all wiki pages starting with 'Trac':
Wiki Markup | Display |
---|---|
[[RecentChanges(Trac,3)]] |
Feb 22, 2022
|
Getting Detailed Help
The list of available macros and the full help can be obtained using the MacroList macro, see below.
A brief list can be obtained via [[MacroList(*)]]
or [[?]]
.
Detailed help on a specific macro can be obtained by passing it as an argument to MacroList, e.g. [[MacroList(MacroList)]]
, or more conveniently, by appending a question mark (?
) to the macro's name, like in [[MacroList?]]
.
Available Macros
[[AboutWikiBoxes]]
Display a wiki page on how to use boxes.
[[AboutWikiIcons]]
Display a wiki page on how to use icons.
[[AboutWikiPhrases]]
Display a wiki page on how to use attentional phrases.
[[Color]]
Decorate text with colors.
Syntax:
[[Color(text, fg/bg/size)]]
where
text
is the text to decorate. Enter a leading and/or trailing space character to surround the text with a decorated space.fg/bg/size
defines the foreground and background colors, and a font size. All parameters are optional and separated by slash character (/
).
Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet in hexadecimal format
(a hex triplet; e.g. #000
or #000000
for black); they may
also be specified according to their common English names (e.g.
red, green, blue etc.). See
here for details.
Examples:
[[Color(Large red on yellow, red/yellow/150%)]] [[Color(Red on yellow, red/yellow)]] [[Color(Yellow background, /yellow)]] [[Color(Large red, #f00/2em)]] [[Color(Large on yellow, /yellow/20px)]] [[Color(Text, can, have, commas, /yellow)]] [[Color( Surrounding space is also decorated , white/red)]]
To set the foreground color for a larger block, the processor variant can be used (background color and font size may not display as expected due to the mechanisms of cascading style sheets, be advised and use the color parameter only):
{{{#!Color color=green ... }}}
[[Icon]]
Shows a named icon that can be in line with text.
Syntax:
[[Icon(name, size)]]
where
name
is the name of the icon. Whenname
contains a pattern character (*
or?
), a 2-column preview of matching icons is presented, which should mainly be used for finding and selecting an icon during wiki page editing in side-by-side mode (however, no more than 32 icons are presented to prevent exhaustive network traffic.)size
is optionally one ofsmall
,medium
orlarge
or an abbreviation thereof (defaultssmall
).
Example:
[[Icon(smiley)]]
Use ShowIcons
for static presentation of available icons.
Smileys like :-)
are automatically rendered as icons. Use
ShowSmileys
to se all available smileys.
Following wiki markup is equivalent to using this macro:
(|name, size|)
[[Image]]
Embed an image in wiki-formatted text.
The first argument is the file specification. The file specification may reference attachments in three ways:
module:id:file
, where module can be either wiki or ticket, to refer to the attachment named file of the specified wiki page or ticket.id:file
: same as above, but id is either a ticket shorthand or a Wiki page name.file
to refer to a local attachment named 'file'. This only works from within that wiki page or a ticket.
The file specification may also refer to:
- repository files, using the
source:file
syntax (source:file@rev
works also). - files, using direct URLs:
/file
for a project-relative,//file
for a server-relative, orhttp://server/file
for absolute location. An InterWiki prefix may be used. - embedded data using the
rfc2397
data
URL scheme, provided the URL is enclosed in quotes.
The remaining arguments are optional and allow configuring the attributes
and style of the rendered <img>
element:
- digits and unit are interpreted as the size (ex. 120px, 25%) for the image
right
,left
,center
,top
,bottom
andmiddle
are interpreted as the alignment for the image (alternatively, the first three can be specified usingalign=...
and the last three usingvalign=...
)link=some TracLinks...
replaces the link to the image source by the one specified using a TracLinks. If no value is specified, the link is simply removed.inline
specifies that the content generated be an inline XHTML element. By default, inline content is not generated, therefore images won't be rendered in section headings and other one-line content.nolink
means without link to image source (deprecated, uselink=
)key=value
style are interpreted as HTML attributes or CSS style indications for the image. Valid keys are:- align, valign, border, width, height, alt, title, longdesc, class, margin, margin-(left,right,top,bottom), id and usemap
border
,margin
, andmargin-
* can only be a single number (units are pixels).margin
is superseded bycenter
which uses auto margins
Examples:
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with image width size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link to source [[Image(photo.jpg, align=right)]] # aligned by attribute
You can use an image from a wiki page, ticket or other module.
[[Image(OtherPage:foo.bmp)]] # from a wiki page [[Image(base/sub:bar.bmp)]] # from hierarchical wiki page [[Image(#3:baz.bmp)]] # from another ticket [[Image(ticket:36:boo.jpg)]] # from another ticket (long form) [[Image(source:/img/bee.jpg)]] # from the repository [[Image(htdocs:foo/bar.png)]] # from project htdocs dir [[Image(shared:foo/bar.png)]] # from shared htdocs dir (since 1.0.2)
Adapted from the Image.py macro created by Shun-ichi Goto <gotoh@…>
[[InterTrac]]
Provide a list of known InterTrac prefixes.
[[InterWiki]]
Provide a description list for the known InterWiki prefixes.
[[KnownMimeTypes]]
List all known mime-types which can be used as WikiProcessors.
Can be given an optional argument which is interpreted as mime-type filter.
[[MacroList]]
Display a list of all installed Wiki macros, including documentation if available.
Optionally, the name of a specific macro can be provided as an argument. In that case, only the documentation for that macro will be rendered.
Note that this macro will not be able to display the documentation of
macros if the PythonOptimize
option is enabled for mod_python!
[[PageOutline]]
Display a structural outline of the current wiki page, each item in the outline being a link to the corresponding heading.
This macro accepts four optional parameters:
- The first is a number or range that allows configuring the minimum and maximum level of headings that should be included in the outline. For example, specifying "1" here will result in only the top-level headings being included in the outline. Specifying "2-3" will make the outline include all headings of level 2 and 3, as a nested list. The default is to include all heading levels.
- The second parameter can be used to specify a custom title (the default is no title).
- The third parameter selects the style of the outline. This can be
either
inline
orpullout
(the latter being the default). Theinline
style renders the outline as normal part of the content, whilepullout
causes the outline to be rendered in a box that is by default floated to the right side of the other content. - The fourth parameter specifies whether the outline is numbered or not.
It can be either
numbered
orunnumbered
(the former being the default). This parameter only has an effect ininline
style.
[[RecentChanges]]
List all pages that have recently been modified, ordered by the time they were last modified.
This macro accepts two ordered arguments and a named argument. The named argument can be placed in any position within the argument list.
The first parameter is a prefix string: if provided, only pages with names that start with the prefix are included in the resulting list. If this parameter is omitted, all pages are included in the list.
The second parameter is the maximum number of pages to include in the list.
The group
parameter determines how the list is presented:
group=date
- The pages are presented in bulleted lists that are grouped by date (default).
group=none
- The pages are presented in a single bulleted list.
Tip: if you only want to specify a maximum number of entries and
don't want to filter by prefix, specify an empty first parameter,
e.g. [[RecentChanges(,10,group=none)]]
.
[[RepositoryIndex]]
Display the list of available repositories.
Can be given the following named arguments:
- format
-
Select the rendering format:
- compact produces a comma-separated list of repository prefix names (default)
- list produces a description list of repository prefix names
- table produces a table view, similar to the one visible in the Browse View page
- glob
- Do a glob-style filtering on the repository names (defaults to '*')
- order
- Order repositories by the given column (one of "name", "date" or "author")
- desc
- When set to 1, order by descending order
[[ShowEntities]]
Renders in a table the list of HTML entities. Optional argument is the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).
[[ShowIcons]]
Renders in a table a list of available icons. No more than 96 icons are displayed to prevent exhaustive network traffic.
Syntax:
[[ShowIcons(cols, name-pattern, size, header, limit)]]
where
cols
is optionally the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).name-pattern
selects which icons to list (use*
and?
).size
is optionally one ofsmall
,medium
orlarge
or an abbreviation thereof (defaultssmall
).header
is optionally one ofheader
andnoheader
or an abbreviation thereof (header is displayed by default)limit
specifies an optional upper limit of number of displayed icons (however, no more than 96 will be displayed).
The last three optional parameters (size
, header
and
limit
) can be stated in any order.
Example:
[[ShowIcons(smile*)]] # all small icons matching smile* [[ShowIcons(4, smile*)]] # four columns [[ShowIcons(smile*, 10)]] # limit to 10 icons [[ShowIcons(smile*, 10, nohead)]] # no header [[ShowIcons(smile*, m)]] # medium-size
[[ShowPhrases]]
Renders in a table the list of known phrases that are highlighted to catch attention.
Comment: Any delimiter ():<>
adjacent to a phrase will not be
presented. This makes it possible to naturally write FIXME:
,
for example, but view the phrase highlighted without the colon
(:
) which would not look natural. Prefixing a phrase with !
prevents it from being highlighted.
[[ShowSmileys]]
Renders in a table the list of available smileys. Optional argument is the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).
Comment: Prefixing a character sequence with !
prevents it
from being interpreted as a smiley.
[[ShowSymbols]]
Renders in a table the list of known symbols. Optional argument is the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).
[[SubscriberList]]
Display a list of all installed notification subscribers, including documentation if available.
Optionally, the name of a specific subscriber can be provided as an argument. In that case, only the documentation for that subscriber will be rendered.
Note that this macro will not be able to display the documentation of
subscribers if the PythonOptimize
option is enabled for mod_python!
[[TOC]]
Generate a table of contents for the current page or a set of pages.
If no arguments are given, a table of contents is generated for the current page, with the top-level title stripped:
[[TOC]]
To generate a table of contents for a set of pages, simply pass them as comma separated arguments to the TOC macro, e.g. as in
[[TOC(TracGuide, TracInstall, TracUpgrade, TracIni, TracAdmin, TracBackup, TracLogging, TracPermissions, TracWiki, WikiFormatting, TracBrowser, TracRoadmap, TracChangeset, TracTickets, TracReports, TracQuery, TracTimeline, TracRss, TracNotification)]]
A wildcard *
can be used to fetch a sorted list of all pages starting with
the preceding pagename stub:
[[TOC(Trac*, WikiFormatting, WikiMacros)]]
The following control arguments change the default behaviour of the TOC macro:
Argument | Description |
---|---|
heading=<x> | Override the default heading of "Table of Contents" |
noheading | Suppress display of the heading. |
depth=<n> | Display headings of subsequent pages to a maximum depth of <n>. |
inline | Display TOC inline rather than as a side-bar. |
sectionindex | Only display the page name and title of each page in the wiki section. |
titleindex | Only display the page name and title of each page, similar to TitleIndex. |
notitle | Supress display of page title. |
reverse | Display TOC sorted in reversed order. (Since 11.0.0.4) |
from=page | Obtain the list of pages to show from the content (one page name per line) of another wiki page. |
nonumbering | Suppress automatic numbering for inline TOC (Since 11.0.0.7) |
For titleindex
argument, an empty pagelist will evaluate to all pages:
[[TOC(titleindex, notitle, heading=All pages)]]
The sectionindex
argument allows a title index to be generated for all
pages in a given section of the wiki. A section is defined by wiki page
name, using /
as a section level delimiter (like directories in a file
system). Giving /
or *
as the page name produces the same result as
titleindex
(title of all pages). If a page name ends with a /
, only
children of this page will be processed. Otherwise, the page given in the
argument is also included, if it exists. For sectionindex
argument, an
empty pagelist will evaluate to all page below the same parent as the
current page:
[[TOC(sectionindex, notitle, heading=This section pages)]]
The 'from' option allows you to read the lines of content from another wiki page and use that as the pagelist for the table of contents. The page names listed there are processed as if they are named in the TOC macro (start a line with a # to treat it as a comment). If the wiki page TOC/Guide contains
TracGuide TracInstall TracReports/Active
then these two calls to TOC are equivalent:
[[TOC(from=TOC/Guide)]] [[TOC(TracGuide, TracInstall, TracReports/Active)]]
However, updating page TOC/Guide changes the TOC in all places
that use from= to refer to it. This can be useful instead of
custom macros like [[TracGuideToc]]
.
[[TicketQuery]]
Wiki macro listing tickets that match certain criteria.
This macro accepts a comma-separated list of keyed parameters, in the form "key=value".
If the key is the name of a field, the value must use the syntax
of a filter specifier as defined in TracQuery#QueryLanguage.
Note that this is not the same as the simplified URL syntax
used for query:
links starting with a ?
character. Commas (,
)
can be included in field values by escaping them with a backslash (\
).
Groups of field constraints to be OR-ed together can be separated by a
literal or
argument.
In addition to filters, several other named parameters can be used to control how the results are presented. All of them are optional.
The format
parameter determines how the list of tickets is
presented:
- list — the default presentation is to list the ticket ID next to the summary, with each ticket on a separate line.
- compact — the tickets are presented as a comma-separated list of ticket IDs.
- count — only the count of matching tickets is displayed
- rawcount — only the count of matching tickets is displayed, not even with a link to the corresponding query (since 1.1.1)
- table — a view similar to the custom query view (but without the controls)
- progress — a view similar to the milestone progress bars
The max
parameter can be used to limit the number of tickets shown
(defaults to 0, i.e. no maximum).
The order
parameter sets the field used for ordering tickets
(defaults to id).
The desc
parameter indicates whether the order of the tickets
should be reversed (defaults to false).
The group
parameter sets the field used for grouping tickets
(defaults to not being set).
The groupdesc
parameter indicates whether the natural display
order of the groups should be reversed (defaults to false).
The verbose
parameter can be set to a true value in order to
get the description for the listed tickets. For table format only.
deprecated in favor of the rows
parameter
The rows
parameter can be used to specify which field(s) should
be viewed as a row, e.g. rows=description|summary
The col
parameter can be used to specify which fields should
be viewed as columns. For table format only.
For compatibility with Trac 0.10, if there's a last positional parameter
given to the macro, it will be used to specify the format
.
Also, using "&" as a field separator still works (except for order
)
but is deprecated.
[[TitleIndex]]
Insert an alphabetic list of all wiki pages into the output.
Accepts a prefix string as parameter: if provided, only pages with names
that start with the prefix are included in the resulting list. If this
parameter is omitted, all pages are listed. If the prefix is specified,
a second argument of value hideprefix
can be given as well, in order
to remove that prefix from the output.
The prefix string supports the standard relative-path notation when
using the macro in a wiki page. A prefix string starting with ./
will be relative to the current page, and parent pages can be
specified using ../
.
Several named parameters can be specified:
format=compact
: The pages are displayed as comma-separated links.format=group
: The list of pages will be structured in groups according to common prefix. This format also supports amin=n
argument, wheren
is the minimal number of pages for a group.format=hierarchy
: The list of pages will be structured according to the page name path hierarchy. This format also supports amin=n
argument, where highern
flatten the display hierarchydepth=n
: limit the depth of the pages to list. If set to 0, only toplevel pages will be shown, if set to 1, only immediate children pages will be shown, etc. If not set, or set to -1, all pages in the hierarchy will be shown.include=page1:page*2
: include only pages that match an item in the colon-separated list of pages. If the list is empty, or if noinclude
argument is given, include all pages.exclude=page1:page*2
: exclude pages that match an item in the colon- separated list of pages.
The include
and exclude
lists accept shell-style patterns.
[[TracAdminHelp]]
Display help for trac-admin commands.
Examples:
[[TracAdminHelp]] # all commands [[TracAdminHelp(wiki)]] # all wiki commands [[TracAdminHelp(wiki export)]] # the "wiki export" command [[TracAdminHelp(upgrade)]] # the upgrade command
[[TracGuideToc]]
Display a table of content for the Trac guide.
This macro shows a quick and dirty way to make a table-of-contents for the Help/Guide. The table of contents will contain the Trac* and WikiFormatting pages, and can't be customized. See the TocMacro for a more customizable table of contents.
[[TracIni]]
Produce documentation for the Trac configuration file.
Typically, this will be used in the TracIni page. The macro accepts two ordered arguments and two named arguments.
The ordered arguments are a configuration section filter, and a configuration option name filter: only the configuration options whose section and name start with the filters are output.
The named arguments can be specified:
- section
- a glob-style filtering on the section names
- option
- a glob-style filtering on the option names
[[TracNav]]
TracNav: The Navigation Bar for Trac
This macro implements a fully customizable navigation bar for the Trac wiki engine. The contents of the navigation bar is a wiki page itself and can be edited like any other wiki page through the web interface. The navigation bar supports hierarchical ordering of topics. The design of TracNav mimics the design of the TracGuideToc that was originally supplied with Trac. The drawback of TracGuideToc is that it is not customizable without editing its source code and that it does not support hierarchical ordering.
Installation
See http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPlugins.
Usage
To use TracNav, create an index page for your site and call the TracNav macro on each page, where the navigation bar should be displayed. The index page is a regular wiki page. The page with the table of contents must include an unordered list of links that should be displayed in the navigation bar.
To display the navigation bar on a page, you must call the TracNav macro on that page an pass the name of your table of contents as argument.
Additional information and a life example
Please visit: https://svn.ipd.kit.edu/trac/javaparty/wiki/TracNav.
Author and License
- Copyright 2005-2006, Bernhard Haumacher (haui at haumacher.de)
- Copyright 2005-2021, Thomas Moschny (thomas.moschny at gmx.de)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
[[Workflow]]
Render a workflow graph.
This macro accepts a TracWorkflow configuration and renders the states and transitions as a directed graph. If no parameters are given, the current ticket workflow is rendered.
In WikiProcessor mode the width
and height
arguments can be specified (Defaults: width = 800
and height = 600
).
The repository-scoped path of a workflow file can be specified as either
a macro or WikiProcessor file
argument. The file revision can be
specified by appending @<rev>
to the path. The file
argument value
must be enclosed in single or double quotes. (Since 1.3.2).
Examples:
[[Workflow()]] [[Workflow(go = here -> there; return = there -> here)]] [[Workflow(file=/contrib/workflow/enterprise-workflow.ini@1)]] {{{#!Workflow file="/contrib/workflow/enterprise-workflow.ini" }}} {{{#!Workflow width=700 height=700 leave = * -> * leave.operations = leave_status leave.default = 1 create = <none> -> new create.default = 1 create_and_assign = <none> -> assigned create_and_assign.label = assign create_and_assign.permissions = TICKET_MODIFY create_and_assign.operations = may_set_owner accept = new,assigned,accepted,reopened -> accepted accept.permissions = TICKET_MODIFY accept.operations = set_owner_to_self resolve = new,assigned,accepted,reopened -> closed resolve.permissions = TICKET_MODIFY resolve.operations = set_resolution reassign = new,assigned,accepted,reopened -> assigned reassign.permissions = TICKET_MODIFY reassign.operations = set_owner reopen = closed -> reopened reopen.permissions = TICKET_CREATE reopen.operations = del_resolution }}}
[[box]]
View wiki text in a box.
Syntax:
{{{#!box type align=... width=... wiki text }}}
or preferably when content is short:
[[box(wiki text, type=..., align=..., width=...)]]
where
type
is an optional flag, or parameter, to call for attention depending on type of matter. Whentype
is set, the box is decorated with an icon (except fornews
) and colored, depending on what urgency the type represents:
Urgency (box color) type warn (red) bug
,critical
,error
,important
,stop
,warning
highlight (yellow) help
,information
,note
,question
,tips
elaborate (blue) bad
,chat
,comment
,discussion
,good
,no
,nok
,ok
,talk
,yes
news (green) news
normal (white) configuration
,configure
,details
,look
,magnifier
,tool
type
may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique for one of the keywords above.
align
is optionally one ofright
,left
orcenter
. Therbox
macro is an alias foralign=right
.width
is optional and sets the width of the box (defaultsauto
except for right aligned boxes which defaults a fixed width).width
should be set whenalign=center
for proper results.
Examples:
{{{#!box warn = Warning Beware of the bugs }}} [[box(Beware of the bugs, type=warn)]]
A style
parameter is also accepted, to allow for custom
styling of the box. See also the rbox
, newsbox
and
imagebox
macros (processors).
[[imagebox]]
Present a centered box suitable for one image.
Syntax:
{{{#!imagebox wiki text }}}
This box is typically used together with the Image
macro:
{{{#!imagebox [[Image(file)]] Caption }}}
Note that the size
parameter of the Image
macro may not
behave as expected when using relative sizes (%
).
The following parameters are also accepted:
align
— One ofright
,left
orcenter
(defaultscenter
).width
— Set the width of the box (defaultsauto
except for right aligned boxes which defaults a fixed width).style
— Custom styling of the box.
See also the box
, rbox
and newsbox
macros (processors).
[[lbox]]
View a left-aligned box. (This is a shorthand for
box align=left
)
Syntax:
{{{#!lbox type width=... wiki text }}}
or preferably when content is short:
[[lbox(wiki text, type=..., width=...)]]
where
type
is an optional flag, or parameter, to call for attention depending on type of matter. Whentype
is set, the box is decorated with an icon (except fornews
) and colored, depending on what urgency the type represents:
Urgency (box color) type warn (red) bug
,critical
,error
,important
,stop
,warning
highlight (yellow) help
,information
,note
,question
,tips
elaborate (blue) bad
,chat
,comment
,discussion
,good
,no
,nok
,ok
,talk
,yes
news (green) news
normal (white) configuration
,configure
,details
,look
,magnifier
,tool
type
may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique for one of the keywords above.
width
is optional and sets the width of the box (defaults a fixed width). Usewidth=auto
for an automatically sized box.
Examples:
{{{#!lbox warn = Warning Beware of the bugs }}} [[lbox(Beware of the bugs, type=warn)]]
A style
parameter is also accepted, to allow for custom
styling of the box. See also the box
, newsbox
and
imagebox
macros (processors).
[[newsbox]]
Present a news box to the right. (This is a shorthand for
rbox news
)
Syntax:
{{{#!newsbox wiki text }}}
The following parameters are also accepted:
width
— Set the width of the box (defaults a fixed width).style
— Custom styling of the box.
See also the box
, rbox
and imagebox
macros (processors).
(Comment: This box corresponds to the well-known
NewsFlash
macro.)
[[rbox]]
View a right-aligned box. (This is a shorthand for
box align=right
)
Syntax:
{{{#!rbox type width=... wiki text }}}
or preferably when content is short:
[[rbox(wiki text, type=..., width=...)]]
where
type
is an optional flag, or parameter, to call for attention depending on type of matter. Whentype
is set, the box is decorated with an icon (except fornews
) and colored, depending on what urgency the type represents:
Urgency (box color) type warn (red) bug
,critical
,error
,important
,stop
,warning
highlight (yellow) help
,information
,note
,question
,tips
elaborate (blue) bad
,chat
,comment
,discussion
,good
,no
,nok
,ok
,talk
,yes
news (green) news
normal (white) configuration
,configure
,details
,look
,magnifier
,tool
type
may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique for one of the keywords above.
width
is optional and sets the width of the box (defaults a fixed width). Usewidth=auto
for an automatically sized box.
Examples:
{{{#!rbox warn = Warning Beware of the bugs }}} [[rbox(Beware of the bugs, type=warn)]]
A style
parameter is also accepted, to allow for custom
styling of the box. See also the box
, newsbox
and
imagebox
macros (processors).
Contributed macros
The Trac Hacks site provides a large collection of macros and other Trac plugins contributed by the Trac community. If you are looking for new macros, or have written one that you would like to share, please visit that site.
Developing Custom Macros
Macros, like Trac itself, are written in the Python programming language and are a type of plugin.
Here are 2 simple examples showing how to create a Macro. For more information about developing macros, see the development resources and sample-plugins.
Macro without arguments
To test the following code, copy it to timestamp_sample.py
in the TracEnvironment's plugins/
directory.
from trac.util.datefmt import datetime_now, format_datetime, utc from trac.util.html import tag from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase class TimestampMacro(WikiMacroBase): _description = "Inserts the current time (in seconds) into the wiki page." def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, content, args=None): t = datetime_now(utc) return tag.strong(format_datetime(t, '%c'))
Macro with arguments
To test the following code, copy it to helloworld_sample.py
in the TracEnvironment's plugins/
directory.
from trac.util.translation import cleandoc_ from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase class HelloWorldMacro(WikiMacroBase): _description = cleandoc_( """Simple HelloWorld macro. Note that the name of the class is meaningful: - it must end with "Macro" - what comes before "Macro" ends up being the macro name The documentation of the class (i.e. what you're reading) will become the documentation of the macro, as shown by the !MacroList macro (usually used in the WikiMacros page). """) def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, content, args=None): """Return some output that will be displayed in the Wiki content. `name` is the actual name of the macro (no surprise, here it'll be `'HelloWorld'`), `content` is the text enclosed in parenthesis at the call of the macro. Note that if there are ''no'' parenthesis (like in, e.g. [[HelloWorld]]), then `content` is `None`. `args` will contain a dictionary of arguments when called using the Wiki processor syntax and will be `None` if called using the macro syntax. """ return 'Hello World, content = ' + unicode(content)
Note that expand_macro
optionally takes a 4th parameter args
. When the macro is called as a WikiProcessor, it is also possible to pass key=value
processor parameters. If given, those are stored in a dictionary and passed in this extra args
parameter. When called as a macro, args
is None
.
For example, when writing:
{{{#!HelloWorld style="polite" -silent verbose <Hello World!> }}} {{{#!HelloWorld <Hello World!> }}} [[HelloWorld(<Hello World!>)]]
One should get:
Hello World, text = <Hello World!>, args = {'style': u'polite', 'silent': False, 'verbose': True} Hello World, text = <Hello World!>, args = {} Hello World, text = <Hello World!>, args = None
Note that the return value of expand_macro
is not HTML escaped. Depending on the expected result, you should escape it yourself (using return Markup.escape(result)
), or if this is indeed HTML, wrap it in a Markup object: return Markup(result)
(from trac.util.html import Markup
).
You can also recursively use a wiki formatter to process the content
as wiki markup:
from trac.wiki.formatter import format_to_html from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase class HelloWorldMacro(WikiMacroBase): def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, content, args): content = "any '''wiki''' markup you want, even containing other macros" # Convert Wiki markup to HTML return format_to_html(self.env, formatter.context, content)