[pmwiki-users] $ItemDesc

Jon Haupt jhaupt at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 14:33:01 CST 2006


What would be most useful, I guess, is to figure out where in the
documentation it should be said that (:description:) puts a value into
$ItemDesc, and what this property is used for.  I knew about the
(:description:) markup, and I knew that $ItemDesc was used to fill the
description fields in RSS feeds, but didn't know that $ItemDesc and
(:description:) were connected.  I'm not sure whether that should
appear on a page explaining variables, or a page explaining
directives, or on a page explaining RSS feeds, but probably at least
one of the above.  I'd have written it already but I'm still a tad bit
confused about the whole thing.

At any rate, (:description:) works for me, at least at the moment.

Jon

On 2/28/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:32:38AM -0600, Jon Haupt wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm interested in adding summary/description tags to my RSS feed.  As
> > we've already noted, the $ItemDesc is used to fill this need, but it
> > doesn't seem to have been explained yet.  Is there already a way to
> > set this property for a given item, is it in the works, or do I need
> > to invent a way to do it?
>
> For the moment the only way to reliably get a value into $ItemDesc
> is to use the (:description:) markup.
>
> I'm open to suggestions for better ways to do it.  :-)
>
> Pm
>


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