[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Why heirarchy?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Tue Oct 19 16:57:05 CDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:29:22PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> 
> To me it is important to be able to put related information "close". I
> know you can use wiki trails to let a user step through a set of related
> pages. That doesn't help with searches though. (Unless we added some
> specific search option that automatically searches all pages within a
> trail).

Oh.  By the way, this is already on my design board for PmWiki 2.0.  
Essentially one will be able to do

   [:searchresults trail=DocumentationIndex cookbook:]

and will returns all of the pages in the DocumentationIndex trail that
contain the word "cookbook".  

> In addition, it is sometimes annoying to have to update a page trail
> whenever you add a page. If I can have a group dedicated to e.g. sound
> cards, it should be enough to just add a new page to that group.

And in general it is, even in a hierarchy.

Pm



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