[Pmwiki-users] RE: Page Edit Templates

[Knut Alboldt]

At 19:48 06.10.2004, you wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Fred Chittenden wrote:
>
> > The "wiki projectforum" has a "edit template" feature, if I understand you
> > correctly.  When you start up a new page, you can pick a template to start
> > editing.
>...
> > It's a very desirable feature, IMHO.
>
>I can think of several cases when it'd be useful to be able to choose a
>template. I think this should be doable as a relatively simple extension.
>
>Here's one way:
>
>* Introduce an extra argument to the '?action=edit' parameter as follows
>         ?action=edit&template=SomeGroup.SomePage
>   where the additional parameter causes the edit form to be set to the
>   source of the page 'SomeGroup.SomePage'.
>
>* Modify the edit page so that it contains e.g. extra buttons that link to
>   URIs such as these:
>         http://.../<group>/<page>?action=edit&template=Main.Template1
>         http://.../<group>/<page>?action=edit&template=Main.Template2
>         http://.../<group>/<page>?action=edit&template=Main.Template3
>
>When the user starts editing a new page, the edit form contains the
>default text. The user now have the option to click on one of these
>buttons, that will re-open the edit page, but with the edit form filled
>with the source of the template page.
>
>To me it seems that the only thing missing here is a smarter way to
>generate the template buttons, so that users can add their own templates
>to the list. That could be done in several ways, for instance by looking
>for a list of pages first in the page <Group>.PageTemplates. And if that
>page doesn't exist, look in Main.PageTemplates.
>
>/Christian

That's a very good suggestion !

I think after installing and migrating to pmwiki v2 I will have a closer 
look to an implementation. The thing is, since I'll start a new job this 
week, I won't have to much time to take care of my pmwiki-migration (v1 to v2).

Knut