[pmwiki-users] List of Categories in use

[DaveG]

The categories on my site are relatively fluid, so I prefer to put the
    (:pagelist link=Category.{$Name}:)

in the Category.GroupFooter page. That way I don't have to create a 
Cateory.NewCategory page everytime someone uses a new category term. 
This also has problems of potentially the same category with different 
spelling, but for now it's better than the admin burden of page creating 
for each category.

It does mean that since the Category pages don't exist a search for them 
turns up empty. That's why the refcount, Missing pages might work if it 
can be restricted to the Category group.

  ~ ~ Dave

Hans wrote:
> Saturday, November 26, 2005, 1:45:51 AM, Martin wrote:
> 
>>This won't work unless the pages exists.  They don't 
>>have to exist to be a category.
> 
> 
> Excuse me if I am dumb here, but I do not understand.
> 
> I thought a category in pmwiki is a page in the Category group.
> And if you create a new category as a link [[!My New Category]] then you
> would need to open the Category.NewCategory page at least once in
> order to create it by saving it immediately.
> Putting in the link [[!My New Category]] on any page is not creating
> it, it just links to a page still to be created.
> 
> Please explain what you mean by " they don't have to exist to be a
> category".
> 
> Best, 
> ~Hans                           
> 
> 
> 
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