[Pmwiki-users] Going directly to a page

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi

Would it be useful to have a mechanism that lets the user to go directly
to a specific page?

Here are some ways I imagine this could work:

* Have a text-input field somewhere at the top where you can directly type
  the name of a page (or 'Group.PageName').
  Drawback: Requires some space.

* Have a select-field  with all group.pagenames, i.e. this HTML
	<SELECT>
	  <OPTION>Main.HomePage
	  <OPTION>Group.SomePage
	  <OPTION>Group.AnotherPage
	</SELECT>
  When you click on this select-field, you see a list of all the pages on 
  the site and you can directly choose any of them.

  The choices in the select-field doesn't have to be all pages:
  * The selector could list pages in the current group
  * The selector lists "group homepages" and pages of the current group
  * The selector lists pages specified by a trail page

  Drawback: The list of pages is downloaded with each page => bigger page

* The user clicks on a link to a dynamically created 'sitemap page' which
  would contain a list of all pages on the site. An advantage with this 
  solution is that each page could also get a small description.
  (This would essentially use the "teaser syntax" by John Rankin).
  Drawback: A two-step procedure is required.

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr