[pmwiki-users] a couple of questions

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:56:52AM -0800, Nicholas Buttle wrote:
> 1. images
> I'd like to allow users to upload image files to the
> pmwiki into a gallery category and on the home page
> have a thumbnail of the most recently uploaded image. 
> is this possible?

It'll need a separate recipe of some sort -- I'm not aware
of one at the moment.

> 2. file system access
> sometimes it might be undesirable to upload material
> that already exists on the server somewhere.  is there
> a simple way for users to put a link on a page that
> points to eg. anexcelfile.xls which resides on
> Server1/support/admin/anexcelfile.xls or elsewhere on
> the servers?

Take a look at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/InterMap --
it allows creating shortcuts to specific urls or locations.

Pm