[pmwiki-users] No dot required in Attach:Group./Filename?

[Petko Yotov]

Oliver Betz writes:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Images-Talk and
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Mini tell me that I have to write
> Attach:Groupname./image.jpeg or Mini:Group./picture.jpg to access
> files in another group, i.e. with a dot before the slash.
>
> But seemingly it works also without the dot, i.e.
> Attach:Groupname/image.jpeg and Mini:Group/picture.jpg.
>
> Is the documentation incorrect or are there any drawbacks not adding
> the dot?

If in the same group you have a page with a name, same as the other group,  
the dot is required.

For example, if you are in the Main.HomePage and you want to link to  
Galleries.Galleries, but you also have a page Main.Galleries, a link to  
Attach:Galleries/image.jpeg may not be what you mean. With the dot, it is  
clear that you link to a file in the Galleries/ group; without the dot you  
link to a file attached to a Main.Galleries page in the same group.

See also http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/LinkVariables#PagePathFmt.

Petko