[pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Pagelist as report generator

[Steve Glover]

Hi,

> I'll probably later move this solution to Cookbook/WikiShExamples, but for
> now there is a working prototype (purely test data - feel free to punch it
> around) at 

This looks really good. I'd hoped to look at the WikiSh and Fox 
approaches during the last few days, but - as ever when I think I've 
time to work on the website - we suddenly got busier in other areas.

I'll get back to this after the weekend, but just wanted to say thanks 
for now!

Cheers

Steve

PS Thanks also to Vince and Russ: I'll be picking up on the power of Fox 
for use elsewhere later!

> http://www.qdk.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=WikiShForms.2008-08-21-something 
> 
> (I don't usually leave them as "live" examples -- I thought this one was
> particularly cute as an example of a very simple flat-file (non-relational)
> database that could be really functional and is very extensible in terms of
> validations and etc...)
> 
>>From there you can edit and save the PTV values or create new pages using
> the supplied field/button.  Each page kinda-sorta contains its own
> "make-me-into-a-form" code so when you view the page it will view it in a
> user-friendly form interface even though the page itself is basically just
> data with a 1-line WikiSh function call.  You can still go to action=edit or
> action=source to see the (now hidden) PTVs that it's based off of.
> 
> I followed your PTV names and etc just for consistency, but I only did a
> subset of them.  Adding the rest is just a typing exercise...
> 
> If you are looking at the solution you will also be interested in these
> pages:
> 
> * WikiShForms.Template  - the content that is copied into place when a new
> page is created (all it does is (:include PageContent:)
> * WikiShForms.PageContent - the actual content of the page that gets pulled
> in -- just a function call now, but you could add something else on this
> page and all "data" pages would automatically "be updated" with the "new
> look"
> * WikiSh.WikiShForms-GroupRC - the location of the function definition
> (active for this group but nowhere else)
> 
> There's all kinds of capabilities for validating the data in the form as
> well.  I haven't done anything like that because I don't know what your
> requirements are...
> 
> I didn't do anything with the pagelist reports because it seemed like you
> already had that going well and just needed the form solution, right?
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> -Peter
> 
> PS Whether you use this solution or not, I strongly recommend taking a look
> at the use of (:include {$Group}.PageContent:) to bring in your view-table
> from one master copy rather than having it hard-coded on each individual
> page.  (Maybe you're already doing this and just didn't mention it in your
> email - if so, ignore this paragraph.)  Otherwise at some inevitable point
> in the future someone is going to have the unenviable task of going through
> and hand-editing a bunch of pages in order to allow for an additional field
> or a change in a label or something like that...  Just a tho't.
> 
> 
> 


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