[pmwiki-users] Listing pages by date

[Hladůvka Jiří]

Jan Erik Moström napsal(a):
> First of all, I'm not looking for some blog feature instead I'm 
> trying to figure out if a "calender" of documents is possible/a 
> good idea.
>
> My idea/problem:
>
> sometimes I wish I could list documents in some groups by date 
> (ideally in a calendar, but right now I'm satisfied with a 
> list). Since I'm not interested in creation/modification date 
> but rather a "document date" I thought I would use a page 
> variable and the pagelist command.
>
> So I started to experiment and inserted a page variable
>
>      (:documentdate: 2007-03-09 :)
>
> and then I used
>
>      (:pagelist $:documentdate=2*:)
>
> I get a simple list but I wonder if it's a good idea of doing it 
> like this or if there's a better way of doing it?
>
> And if this is the way of doing it, how can I sort on the page 
> variable and how can I get a listing that look like this
>
>      2007-03-09 The page title
>
> The page title =  (:title XXXX:)
>
> I think I can use Site.LocalTemplates but I'm unsure how I do it.
>
> I would be grateful for comments/suggestions
>
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This is a good solution.
You can get the pagelist this way:

(:pagelist $:documentdate=2* order={$:documentdate} fmt=#DocumentDateList:)

(:if false:)
[[#DocumentDateList]]
{=$:documentdate} {=$Title}
[[#DocumentDateListend]]
(:if:)

You need not to use Site.LocalTemplates if you put the template on the 
same page as the (:pagelist ...:) command
The (:if false:) is  used not to display the fmt source

Note the ":" in {=$:documentdate} as it's a page *text* variable while 
in {=$Title} it is missing - it is page variable.

Hope this helps

Jiri