[pmwiki-users] Monobook new tab problem

[Dominique Faure]

On 8/22/06, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa <ialdazabal at ehu.es> wrote:
> Adam Breashears wrote:
>
> >
> > Check your ak_view variable - you need different ones for each link in
> > the monobook skin, otherwise it will think each link is in the same
> > state.
> >
> mmm... changing it to say
>
> * %item class=browse accesskey='$[ak_view]'%[[{$FullName} | $[View] ]]
> * %item class=browse accesskey='$[ak_preview]'%[[{$FullName}-other |
> $[View-other] ]]
>
> does not change the described behavior.
>
> By trial error I got to the conclusion that is the action what sets the
> state.
>
> Could I perhaps add a new action to pmwiki, equivalent to browse, so that
> monobook skin could  deal with it? Is this doable or to complicated?
>

Hi,

As initially designed, the tab link states are defined according to
the page current action and the one given in the link definitions from
Site.PageActions (no given action meaning action=browse). Thus, if you
provide several links with no (aka. browse) or same action, they will
be identically rendered.

To transform a bug(?) in a feature, and get the expected result, you
may provide an additional url parameter which will help differentiate
them as in:

* %item class=browse accesskey='$[ak_view]'%[[{$FullName} | $[View] ]]
* %item class=browse
accesskey='$[ak_preview]'%[[{$FullName}-other?action=browse&extraparam
| $[View-other] ]]

You could also get an interesting side effect, in providing the
following extra parameter:
from={$FullName} as in (style definition omitted):

* [[{$FullName}-other?action=browse&from={$FullName} | $[View-other] ]]

and redefining $PageRedirectFmt in your configuration file to remove
the edit action:

$PageRedirectFmt = "<p><i>($[redirected from] <a rel='nofollow'
    href='{\$PageUrl}'>{\$FullName}</a>)</i></p>\$HTMLVSpace\n";

This way, browsing the "other" page would add a link back to your original page.

Hope this help,
Dom