Global variables

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There is not exactly universal variables you can use in any content right now.

It depends how you want to use those “variables”.

Here are a few ideas:

Actual variables you can use in a script

Define variable in some page and include that page when you need those variables and use a script macro when you need it a in:

{{include reference="MySpace.MyVariables"/}}

Download [[{{velocity}}${REF.PROJECT}\Architecture\filename.docx{{/verlocity}}]].

{{velocity}}
See $REPO/projects/project/src/main/Filename.java for the implementation of the file name.
{{/velocity}}

Where MySpace.MyVariable contains:

{{velocity output="false"}}
#set($REF =
{
  'PROJECTS' : 'Y:\Documents\Clients\Ministry\Projects',
  'OTHERS' : 'Y:\Documents\Clients\Ministry\Others'
})

#set($REPO = 'https://svn.ministry.com')
{{/velocity}}

Wiki macros

In xwiki.org we use the following macro http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/SCM.

If we ever move XWiki repositories somewhere else we just need to modify the macro (will happen soon for xwiki-enterprise for example, thanks for the reminder :slight_smile: ).