[pmwiki-users] WikiTrails and pagelists

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Apr 16 09:03:27 CDT 2007


On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:51:24PM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> Oh... now I remember. I wanted the ability to let the dynamic part of the 
> wiki trail exclude pages that already existed in the static part of the 
> trail.  Is that possible?
> 
> The reason for having a static and dynamic part is that I'd like to be 
> able to generate a trail of pages like this (the names of the pages are 
> completely arbitrary, I just used 'Page<n>' due to lack of imagination)
> 
> 	* [[Page 1]]
> 	* [[Page 2]]
> 	** [[Page 2a]]
> 	(:pagelist ???? :)  - results in some pages
> 	* [[Page 10]]
> 	* [[Page 11]]
> 	** (:pagelist ???? :) - pages that should be listed here
> 
> 	* [[Page ...]]
> 
> 	(:pagelist <the-rest>:) - any pages not listed above
> 
> This would let me use the trail index page to impose order on the pages 
> that belong to the wiki trail, and still use (:pagelist:) to make sure 
> that the trail contains all the pages.
> 
> Is the above possible?

Not yet, but I'm planning to make it possible via a 
trail=-TrailPage option to (:pagelist:).  This would exclude
all of the pages on TrailPage.

Either that or we'd go with the save/include/exclude mechanism
discussed in a previous thread, that would allow arbitrary
combinations of pagelists.

Pm



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