Searching within the Shibboleth wiki pages (and a workaround)

Max Spicer max.spicer at york.ac.uk
Mon May 23 10:42:24 UTC 2022


Thanks, Simon. I did not know about that feature.

On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 11:32, Simon Lundström <simlu at su.se> wrote:

> Nice work Max!
>
> Another workaround is to use the "Hamburger"/three dots-menu and under
> "Advanced details" choose "View Source" and then search there.
>
> BR,
> - Simon
>
> On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 10:57:47 +0200, Max Spicer via users wrote:
> > Scott's reply to a recent thread (see below) has highlighted one of my
> common issues with the wiki. Now that I know
> https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP4/pages/1265631612/LDAPAuthnConfiguration#Advanced-Features
> contains an example of chaining validators together, I want to go to that
> page and find the example. I would normally follow the link, hit ctrl-f and
> start to type "chain" to search within the page. Unfortunately this fails
> as the relevant section is collapsed by default. The same applies if you
> search the wiki (or Google) for "chaining ldap validators" and then try to
> find the relevant section on the page. I often ended up having to manually
> expand every section, which can be rather tiresome.
> >
> > It seems that this is a long standing issue with Confluence's Expand
> macros that doesn't yet have a solution. However, a PM did post in February
> this year that they hope to start working on one:
> https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-27077.
> >
> > In the meantime I work around this with a saved bookmarklet that does
> the expand:
> >
> > javascript:(function () { $('div[data-node-type=expand]
> button[aria-expanded]').click() }())
> >
> > I've added a bookmark to my Bookmarks Bar with the above as the URL and
> called it Expand. I can now click the bookmark to toggle all the collapsed
> sections on the current page.
> >
> > I hope that's useful to someone. Please do say if you know a simpler way.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Max Spicer
>
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