[pmwiki-users] Getting pages created by other software to appear in category lists
Peter Payzant
pce at accesswave.ca
Mon Oct 28 19:49:49 CDT 2013
Patrick, thanks for your reply.
As an experiment, I simply used the Linux "touch" command on both
wiki.d/.lastmod and my synthetic wiki page. I'm afraid that didn't work
- the category page still doesn't see the synthetic page.
Any other thoughts?
Peter
On 2013-10-28 7:34 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:06:29PM -0300, Peter Payzant wrote:
>> I'm creating one page with a daily Perl program, and in general
>> everything works as expected. However, I can't get this page to show
>> up in a category list.
>> [...]
>> However, this page does not appear on the page
>> Category.BoardDocuments. Dozens of other pages created the normal
>> way, by editing in PmWiki, do appear in the category list.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
> The indexes aren't being notified that there's a new page that might
> need scanning.
>
> Simply have your Perl script also touch/update the .lastmod file in
> wiki.d/, and the categories should start seeing your automatically
> generated page(s).
>
> In Perl the following will work to update the timestamp of .lastmod:
>
> open(my $fh, ">", "wiki.d/.lastmod");
> close($fh);
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Pm
>
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