PmWiki | Test / PData

This is testing the new PData capability, and the {$:var} markup.

First, some data that we can look at:

Field1: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
Field2: Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris.
Field3: Nisi ut aliquip.

To grab the value of a field from the current page, use {$:Field1}:

  Field1 = {$:Field1}
  Field2 = {$:Field2}
  Field3 = {$:Field3}

  Field1 = Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. 
  Field2 = Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris.
  Field3 = Nisi ut aliquip.

To grab the value of a field from another page, use {pagename$:Field1} (here the data is coming from TestData):

  {TestData$:ABC}
  {TestData$:DEF}

  alpha beta charlie
  delta echo foxtrot

Some other examples, grabbing Summary lines from Cookbook and PITS pages:

  {PITS.00565$:Summary}
  {Cookbook.RandomQuote$:Summary}
  {Cookbook.RandomQuote$:Version}

  Placeholder for 2.1 features
  Insert random quotes or markup into a page
  2007-02-15

The data can also come from definition lists (currently definitions have to be a single word):

:apple:green
:banana:yellow
:cherry:red

{$:apple} {$:banana} {$:cherry}

apple: green
banana: yellow
cherry: red

green yellow red

The {$:var} markup can also be used in page templates:

[[#summary]]
* [[{=$Group}/{=$Name}]]: {=$:Summary}
[[#summaryend]]

(:pagelist fmt=#summary group=Cookbook "Summary:" count=10:)

AbbreviationPlurals: Automatically format text like CCDs as a plural abbreviation, instead of as a wikiword.
ABCHoverIndex: displays a pagelist as an alphabetic hover menu, sorted by title
AbcMusic: Display music scores from abc notation
ActionLog: Maintain a page log of wiki actions
AddDeleteLine: Create a list where entries can easily be inserted and deleted
AddDeleteLine2: An easy way to add information to a page and delete it again.
AddImageType: Add new image type extension
AddLinkBookmarklet: How to use PmWiki to bookmark pages
AddNewline: Make wiki text end with a newline character, so the last line won't be marked as changed if text is added at the bottom
AddPageForm: How to add new pages without creating a link first

(:pagelist fmt=#summary group=PITS "Summary:" count=10 order=-time:)

00407: wikitrails fails cross-group
01058: PTV defined and used on an included page do not render
00243: spamming of the pages
00028: Turn PmWiki into a full-fledged blogging tool
01057: Save fails (content destroyed) due to filled quota
01056: LDAP Authentication doesn't work with french accented characters
01055: Slight tweak to sample-config.php include_once lines for farm use
01054: install fails on IIS7 ?
00903: intermittent broken links with umlauts
01053: Pagelist doesn't show words containing accentuated letters in alphabetical order

[[#showthumbs2]]
(:if equal {<$Group}:)
>>lframe width=300px<<
(:if:)[[{=$Name}]] - {=$:Thumbnail}
(:if equal {>$Group}:)
>><<
[[#showthumbs2end]]

(:pagelist fmt=#showthumbs2 group=Test name=EasyGalleryPic* "Thumbnail:"
:)

EasyGalleryPic1 - EasyGalleryPic2 - Thumbnail: EasyGalleryPic3 - EasyGalleryPic4 - Thumbnail: EasyGalleryPic5 - EasyGalleryPic6 - Thumbnail:

Here is a quick test to see how well the {$:var} markup works with with images and in page templates:

[[#showthumbs]]
(:if equal {<$Group}:)
>>lframe width=300px<<
(:if:)\
{=$:Thumbnail}\
(:if equal {>$Group}:)
>><<
[[#showthumbsend]]

(:pagelist fmt=#showthumbs group=Test name=EasyGalleryPic* "Thumbnail:" :)

Thumbnail: Attach:GoldieCat.jpgAttach:HaleyDog.jpg ΔThumbnail: Attach:GoldieCat.jpgAttach:HaleyDog.jpg ΔThumbnail:

Note: This wasn't working. Why?

I checked and confirmed that the appropriate pages were being picked up by the pagelist (by leaving links in the template, which I have since removed).
I checked and confirmed that the use of images wasn't the problem (by changing substituting text for the thumbnail on one of the pages, which I have since restored)
I checked and confirmed that the pages where the definitional markup resides do not need to be enabled (by grabbing a single thumbnail, as shown below)

{Test.EasyGalleryPic1$:Thumbnail}\\
{Test.EasyGalleryPic1$:Thumbnailink}

Pico September 07, 2006, at 09:10 AM

Is this an upcoming feature or test of some already available recipe?
VKrishn August 30, 2006, at 11:27 AM

It's experimentation, based on things in PITS, the Cookbook, and a discussion on the pmwiki-users mailing list. A good place to start looking at the thread might be http://www.pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2006-August/031461.html (although it actually begins before that, this message is the one where the {$:var} markup is first introduced). Pm August 30, 2006, at 12:22 PM

I am not sure if there is any PITS entry for this. Please count my vote for this feature. VKrishn September 03, 2006, at 02:37 AM

Will there be a way to escape the colon to allow it to be treated literally as part of the defined value? For example, if I use it for defining titles of works, what happens if the title contains a colon, for example:

Artist: Roy Buchanan Album: Sweet Dreams : The Anthology

Workarounds would presumably include using the ascii code (%3A), or substituting a different character (-), but it might be nice to provide a more intuitive solution. What about allowing optional quotation marks, for example:

Artist: Roy Buchanan Album: "Sweet Dreams : The Anthology"

Pico September 07, 2006, at 09:10 AM

Only the first colon matters; the rest is left alone. For example:

Example: This example contains a colon:  Look, it works!

The value of example is "{$:Example}".

Example: This example contains a colon: Look, it works!

The value of example is "This example contains a colon: Look, it works!".

Some oddness with "directive" values

MyField1 ?:the first value

MyField2 ?: a DL value

the first value
a DL value
a "directive" value
And Foo is another "directive" value

Kathryn Andersen September 26, 2006, at 02:32 AM

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00.27 PageIndexGrep end 25: 00.42 00.29 PageListTermsTargets end count=865 26: 00.42 00.29 PageListSort pre ret=4 order=name 27: 00.43 00.29 MakePageList items count=865, filters=PageListTermsTargets 28: 00.90 00.70 MakePageList post count=852, readc=865 29: 00.90 00.70 PageListCache begin save key=a496ecc0e7b5445354468efd35b044e9 30: 00.90 00.70 PageListCache end save 31: 00.90 00.70 PageListSort begin 32: 00.90 00.70 PageListSort sort 33: 00.95 00.75 PageListSort end 34: 00.95 00.75 MakePageList end 35: 00.98 00.78 MarkupToHTML begin 36: 01.00 00.80 MarkupToHTML end 37: 01.00 00.80 FPLTemplate end 38: 01.00 00.80 MarkupToHTML end 39: 01.00 00.80 MarkupToHTML begin 40: 01.00 00.80 FPLTemplate begin 41: 01.00 00.80 MakePageList pre 42: 01.02 00.80 PageListSources begin 43: 01.02 00.80 PageStore::ls begin wiki.d/{$FullName} 44: 01.09 00.83 PageStore::ls merge wiki.d/{$FullName} 45: 01.12 00.86 PageStore::ls end wiki.d/{$FullName} 46: 01.13 00.87 PageStore::ls begin $FarmD/wikilib.d/{$FullName} 47: 01.13 00.87 PageStore::ls merge $FarmD/wikilib.d/{$FullName} 48: 01.13 00.87 PageStore::ls end $FarmD/wikilib.d/{$FullName} 49: 01.13 00.87 PageListSources end count=1068 50: 01.14 00.87 PageListTermsTargets begin count=1068 51: 01.14 00.87 PageIndexGrep begin 52: 01.24 00.97 PageIndexGrep end 53: 01.26 00.99 PageListTermsTargets end count=1053 54: 01.27 00.99 PageListSort pre ret=6 order=-time 55: 01.27 00.99 MakePageList items count=1053, filters=PageListTermsTargets,PageListSort 56: 01.74 01.40 MakePageList post count=1052, readc=1053 57: 01.74 01.40 PageListCache begin save key=72e4baac09490eff0e70bbc2765a1902 58: 01.74 01.40 PageListCache end save 59: 01.74 01.40 PageListSort begin 60: 01.74 01.40 PageListSort sort 61: 01.81 01.47 PageListSort end 62: 01.81 01.47 MakePageList end 63: 01.83 01.49 MarkupToHTML begin 64: 01.85 01.51 MarkupToHTML end 65: 01.85 01.51 FPLTemplate end 66: 01.86 01.51 MarkupToHTML end 67: 01.86 01.51 MarkupToHTML begin 68: 01.86 01.51 FPLTemplate begin 69: 01.86 01.51 MakePageList pre 70: 01.89 01.52 PageListSources begin 71: 01.89 01.52 PageStore::ls begin wiki.d/{$FullName} 72: 01.94 01.54 PageStore::ls merge wiki.d/{$FullName} 73: 01.97 01.57 PageStore::ls end wiki.d/{$FullName} 74: 01.98 01.57 PageStore::ls begin $FarmD/wikilib.d/{$FullName} 75: 01.98 01.58 PageStore::ls merge $FarmD/wikilib.d/{$FullName} 76: 01.98 01.58 PageStore::ls end $FarmD/wikilib.d/{$FullName} 77: 01.98 01.58 PageListSources end count=6 78: 01.98 01.58 PageListTermsTargets begin count=6 79: 01.98 01.58 PageIndexGrep begin 80: 02.10 01.68 PageIndexGrep end 81: 02.12 01.70 PageListTermsTargets end count=6 82: 02.12 01.71 PageListSort pre ret=4 order=name 83: 02.12 01.71 MakePageList items count=6, filters=PageListTermsTargets 84: 02.12 01.71 MakePageList post count=6, readc=6 85: 02.12 01.71 PageListCache begin save key=01a6daa3e3a9cb65eb528c1bf1e3832f 86: 02.12 01.71 PageListCache end save 87: 02.12 01.71 PageListSort begin 88: 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111: 02.39 01.94 MakePageList items count=6, filters=PageListTermsTargets 112: 02.39 01.94 MakePageList post count=6, readc=6 113: 02.39 01.94 PageListCache begin save key=3881cc183e179cba421676fc97b4f53a 114: 02.39 01.94 PageListCache end save 115: 02.39 01.94 PageListSort begin 116: 02.39 01.94 PageListSort sort 117: 02.39 01.94 PageListSort end 118: 02.39 01.94 MakePageList end 119: 02.40 01.95 MarkupToHTML begin 120: 02.42 01.97 MarkupToHTML end 121: 02.42 01.97 FPLTemplate end 122: 02.42 01.97 MarkupToHTML end 123: 02.42 01.97 MarkupToHTML begin 124: 02.43 01.97 MarkupToHTML end 125: 02.43 01.97 MarkupToHTML begin 126: 02.43 01.98 MarkupToHTML end 127: 02.49 02.04 ReadApprovedUrls SiteAdmin.ApprovedUrls begin 128: 02.50 02.05 ReadApprovedUrls SiteAdmin.ApprovedUrls end 129: 02.53 02.07 MarkupToHTML end 130: 02.55 02.09 MarkupToHTML begin 131: 02.59 02.13 MarkupToHTML end 132: 02.59 02.13 MarkupToHTML begin 133: 02.60 02.15 MarkupToHTML end 134: 02.68 02.15 now