[pmwiki-users] PageList vs WikiForm for multi-line variables

Thierry pmwiki at lma.metelu.net
Sun Oct 4 09:42:12 CDT 2015


Thanks. Somehow, i currently use the same trick since, with the creole
markup, i can use \\ to mean "new line". However, i would like the user to
just write some text without caring about staying on a single line.

Ciao,
Thierry


On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 12:38:57PM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> This may not be a good answer, but it may be an answer.
> 
> In the wikiform entry screen, try using the following markup in the
> Abstract field:
> 
> The first line of the abstract. :+ The second line of the abstract. :+ The
> third line of the abstract.
> 
> In the view template, this should produce the following HTML:
> 
> <dt>Abstract</dt><dd>The first line of the abstract</dd><dd>The second
> line of the abstract.</dd><dd>The third line of the abstract.</dd>
> 
> That is, each line should present as a separate paragraph in the display.
> 
> Then, the pagelist template should correctly pick up the whole field for
> the ptv.
> 
> The code to interpret :+ in this way is part of the markup extensions recipe.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> JR
> 
> > Thanks for your answer. The problem with the solutions discussed in the
> > 2006 thread is that i have to stick to the WikiForm syntax to define page
> > text variables, in particular, the (:...:) way seems not possible.
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Thierry
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:25:51PM +0200, ABClf wrote:
> >> To my knowledge, this :ptv: is not multiline
> >> (see
> >> http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2006-September/033404.html)
> >>
> >> It might be possible (not by me though) to rewrite the :ptv: regex to
> >> get the result you are expecting (but, how to treat the last
> >> occurence, when there is not anymore :ptv: ?)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2015-10-03 21:06 GMT+02:00 Thierry <pmwiki at lma.metelu.net>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > i am using pmwiki to manage various things for a while now and, well,
> >> > thanks a lot for this great tool!
> >> >
> >> > I encountered a problem that i was not able to fix by myself: i am
> >> using
> >> > WikiForm to let the users create pages that define some page text
> >> > variables automatically. In particular, one of the variables is named
> >> > 'Abstract', and the corresponding entry in the FormTemplate is
> >> >
> >> > :Abstract:abstract (text=10*62)
> >> >
> >> > so that the user can enter a small multi-lines text, not a single line
> >> > (and the ViewTemplate understands that well).
> >> >
> >> > In my PageList template, i want to list those pages according to some
> >> > variables (e.g. "Date", "Room", ...) and also print the content of the
> >> > "Abstract" variable, so i am using "{=$:Abstract}" in the
> >> > PageListTemplates.
> >> >
> >> > The problem is that, PageList only prints the first line of the
> >> abstract,
> >> > since, unlike WikiForm, it probably considers that only what is on the
> >> > same line that "^:Abstract:" is the content of the "Abstract"
> >> variable,
> >> > not the following lines.
> >> >
> >> > My question is: how to let PageList understand that the content of the
> >> > "Abstract" field is all the lines that appear between ":Abstract:" and
> >> the
> >> > definition of the next variable in the page ?
> >> >
> >> > Ciao,
> >> > Thierry
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > pmwiki-users mailing list
> > pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Rankin



More information about the pmwiki-users mailing list