[pmwiki-users] Link to a non-existing page

DaveG pmwiki at solidgone.com
Mon Jan 9 21:25:03 CST 2006



Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:31:28PM -0500, DaveG wrote:
> 
>>> > >   But in the case of Categories, I think you still have the
>>> > > problem that you cannot do a pagelist and get the Categories
>>> > > which do not actually have a page.
>>> > Yeah, I've basically been struggling with this for a long time. The
>>> > GroupFooter mechnism very quickly outlives it's utility.
>>>
>>>  Well it still seems convenient to get an automatic pagelist,
>>>even if the category page exists.
>>
>>You have just triggered an epiphany! I found the whole auto-paglist 
>>mechanism provided by the GroupFooter to be incredibly useful, and so 
>>had resisted what I considered the alternative of manually creating the 
>>page. At no stage did it occur to me that the page simply had to be 
>>blank, thus I can have the best of both worlds! I can create pages for 
>>categories that I know to exist, and use pointers to those pages, and 
>>have the auto-generation for those few categories that get created 
>>without me realizing. 
> 
> 
> There's always the possibility of having PmWiki automatically
> create blank Category pages.
:) Now you know I'm going to ask how to do that...

>>Good point, but that wouldn't work in my specific case. What would be 
>>good is a mechnism that highlighted where a category was used, but that 
>>had no category page.
> 
> 
> Well, one can always find missing Category.* pages using ?action=refcount.
> And I'm still hoping to merge refcount with pagelist so that one can
> do something like:
> 
>     (:pagelist rel=missing group=Category:)
> 
> and get a list of missing pages in the Category group (i.e., a
> "missing" page is one that has a link to it but doesn't exist).
> 
> Pm
> 




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