[pmwiki-users] pagelist group exclusion doesn't work

[Martin Fick]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:29:35PM -0600, James Davis wrote:
> It appears that this:
> 
> (:pagelist group= -PmWiki -PmWikiDe:)
> 
> doesn't work in pmwiki-2.1.beta20.
> 
> BrBrBr noted on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Directives#pagelist
> that it need to be groups= but it looks like groups= is actually
> ignored, and it only appears to work because the entire page including
> the group name is matched. If, for example, you had a page in group Foo
> that contained the text PmWiki or PmWikiDe it would not show up in the
> list.

I'm not sure if it works, but the proper syntax I believe is:

(:pagelist group="-PmWiki -PmWikiDe":)


For a single group this should do (notice no space):
(:pagelist group=-PmWiki:)

For spaces to get the second group, you need the quotes.

-Martin