Extensions

Overview

Extensions provide additional information to your MindTouch site.  MindTouch ships with a dozen extensions for embedding maps from Google, viewing RSS feeds, or authenticating users with LDAP/Active Directory.

Extensions come in three flavors: templates, scripts, and services.  Templates are reusable wiki pages that are easy to edit and customize.  Scripts are XML files that can easily be shared online.  And services are libraries that need to be installed or hosted on a web-server.

Directory

Installing Extensions and Scripts

Check the following User Manual pages to learn about installing an extension or script:

• Adding a script in the Control Panel
• Adding an extension in the Control Panel
• Accessing extensions through the Extension Dialog

Contributing a Script

Script extensions are very easy to share.  Please consider making them available for others to use and build upon.  It only takes 3 easy steps!

1. Host your script at a public URI (e.g. http://scripts.mindtouch.com/spoiler.xml) or attach them to your user page on this wiki.
2. Create a new page here with the name of your script (e.g. Spoiler Text).
3. Create a DekiScript block using the styles menu from the editor toolbar and fill in the parameters for the "ScriptDoc" template.
   

   ScriptDoc{
       author: "Your Name", // or vendor: "Your Company Name"
       uri: "http://scripts.mindtouch.com/spoiler.xml", // full URI to where the script it located
       status: "Stable" // (optional, default: "Work-in-progress")
   }

4. Save the page and celebrate the news of your script on the forums!