[pmwiki-users] "Ghost Pages" in RecentChanges

Steve Glover steve at fell-services.net
Tue Oct 17 10:48:08 CDT 2006


In message <20061017145430.GA22224 at host.pmichaud.com>, Patrick R. 
Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> writes
>On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:47:05PM +0100, Steve Glover wrote:
>> Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> writes
>> >How exactly was Documents.ConversionTools
>> >"deleted"?
>>
>> By replacing the contents of the page with the word "delete".
>>
>> Um, actually, no. Belay that. That's how I deleted it in one of the
>> three versions of the site - the one that's not having this problem. In
>> the other two, the file seems to have been deleted by using mv to put it
>> in the directory we keep the time-stamped deleted pages in.
>
>Ah, yes.  Is that directory a subdirectory of wiki.d/ ?  If so,
>then due to the way pagelist works it the page will still show
>up in some pagelists even though the page is technically
>deleted.  (This particular issue has been fixed in 2.2.0-beta15.)

It was, indeed.

>> No problem. Thinking through what's happening has helped me sort out
>> what was going on. On the other hand, I've now been asked if there's a
>> way we can stop "infrastructure" pages like Documents.GroupAttributes
>> showing up in the search or recently changed lists (All the other groups
>> like Main, Site, and PmWiki are hidden from the ordinary users because
>> they're not logged in)....
>
>Sure -- just change the (:searchresults:) directive
>(that normally appears on Site.Search) so that it reads
>
>    (:searchresults list=normal:)
>
>This will cause PmWiki to exclude infrastructure pages from
>search results output.

That's brilliant, thanks. And again I see it's mentioned in the 
documentation, and I somehow managed to miss it.

Cheers

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