[Pmwiki-users] whither page refs
Bob Dively
dive
Tue Feb 24 14:39:07 CST 2004
Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Part of the problem is that the title is used as a
> backreference search in the browse pages, while it's
> used as a "return to page view" link in the
> edit/history/attach/other pages, and there's not an
> easy straightforward way to control this logic via the
> template.
Check. I noticed that myself when I was trying to roll my
own backreferencing from one of my templates.
> Anyway, I haven't completely abandoned the backreferences
> link and I'm still looking for a good answer to it. In
many
> respects it would be nice if "find references to this
page"
> was explicitly referenced on the page rather than (or
perhaps
> in addition to) being implicitly available via the title
link.
Absolutely. Clicking the $Title for a list of backrefs isn't
terribly intuitive (well, at least until you understand the
concept of wiki clearly). It might be useful to include a
more explicit link somewhere for more casual users. Maybe in
the wikifooter?
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