[pmwiki-users] Pagelist problems (pretty advanced)

[Crisses]

Another problem --

When a field has a period in it, and I need to make the data part of  
a pagename... (this MAY be related to the problem I originally posted).

[@
[[#othercatlist]]
(:if expr ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year}" "{Data-{<$BaseName} 
$:Year}" ) ||  ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Work}" "{Data-{< 
$BaseName}$:Work}" ) ||  ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor}"  
"{Data-{<$BaseName}$:WAuthor}" ) :)
*   [[ Category/Title-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Work} | {Data-{=$BaseName} 
$:Work} ]] - [[Category/Author-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor} | {Data-{= 
$BaseName}$:WAuthor} ]] - [[ Category/Year-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year}  
| {Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year} ]]
(:ifend:)
[[#othercatlistend]]
@]


Long story short, the WAuthor field sometimes has a period (or two)  
in it.  This obviously won't work to create the Category/Author-Name  
link.

Category/Author-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor}

For example: if $:WAuthor contains a Jr. in the name, an initial like  
C.S. Lewis, etc.

I had to strip .'s out when creating category links when I had the  
pages written -- is there any way to process the variables and strip  
out the periods?  i.e. I can make custom markup to create the  
category links... it would save a LOT of typo errors.

Thoughts?

Crisses


On Oct 14, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Crisses wrote:

> I've defined the following pagelist:
>
> !!!fmt=#periodcatlist
>
> For the Period category pages.
>
> [@
> [[#periodcatlist]]
> (:if expr ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year}" "{Data-{<$BaseName}
> $:Year}" ) ||  ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Work}" "{Data-{<
> $BaseName}$:Work}" ) ||  ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor}"
> "{Data-{<$BaseName}$:WAuthor}" ) :)
> *   [[ Category/Year-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year} | {Data-{=$BaseName}
> $:Year} ]] - [[ Category/Title-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Work} | {Data-{=
> $BaseName}$:Work} ]] - [[ Category/Author-{Data-{=$BaseName}
> $:WAuthor} | {Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor} ]]
> (:ifend:)
> [[#periodcatlistend]]
> @]
>
> in other words:
>   If the year changes, OR the title of the "work" (book) changes, OR
> the Author's name changes:
> spit out another header of category links to specific pages
>
>
> The problem is probably in the "order".  This pagelist format is
> called from Category/GroupFooter with:
>
> (:if name Category.Period-* :)
> (:pagelist link=Category.{$Name} group=Simile fmt=#periodcatlist
> list=normal order=$:Year,$:Work,$:WAuthor :)
> (:ifend:)
>
> Something's wrong with the sort order:
>
> http://similepedia.com/index.php/Category/Period-20thCentury
> yields:
> 1939 - The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, John
> 1937 - Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck, John
> 1939 - The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, John
> 1930 - As I Lay Dying - Faulkner, William
> 1939 - The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, John
> 1930 - As I Lay Dying - Faulkner, William
> 1939 - The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, John
> 1930 - As I Lay Dying - Faulkner, William
>
> When I would be expecting:
>
> 1930 - As I Lay Dying - Faulkner, William
> 1937 - Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck, John
> 1939 - The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, John
>
> Anyone know what I did wrong this time?  Does the pagelist sort
> handle alphaNUMERIC sort?  Years, I expect, will always be 4 digits,
> so I don't need a sophisticated numeric sort...
>
> Crisses
>
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