[pmwiki-users] Using inote markup as a systemwide LatestNews flag/sticky

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:21:01PM +0100, K.A.Bouton wrote:
> I have been looking into postitnotes, stickynotes and inotes.
> Has one takenover from the others?

I'm currently pushing for a new version of postit/stickynotes, based
on wikistyles.  I've put some examples at 
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Sidenotes .

First, note that one can easily define a %sidenote% wikistyle with:

    %define=sidenote rframe width=150px font-size=smaller%

Then, to create a sidenote, one can write

    %sidenote%  Here is my sidenote.

Or, to include things like paragraphs or lists, one can use

    >>sidenote<<
    Here is my sidenote.
    >><<

If you really want something that looks like a "Post-It"(TM) note,
then set the background color:

    %define=postitnote sidenote bgcolor=yellow%

    >>postitnote<<
    Here's a Post-It note
    >><<

    %postitnote bgcolor=#e0e0ff% And here's a blue post-it!

So, to get back to your goal...

> With markup extension inote its nice to use the include page to create a
> stickynote on all farm field homepages when there is something I need to let
> everyone know eg Main.LatestNews

With wikistyles you can do:

    >>rframe width=200px font-size=smaller<<
    (:include Main.LatestNews:)
    >><<

> 1) I want the header in the sticky note to read the the (:title:) of the
> page I am calling in

    >>rframe width=200px font-size=smaller<<
    {$Title}
    (:include Main.LatestNews:)
    >><<

or you can put the {$Title} itself into the LatestNews page.

> 2) I don't want the edit link (I have hand edited the extendmarkup file to
> remove this but thhere should be another way so I don't overwrite this with
> updates)

The edit link isn't there by default.  It's easily added by placing
[[Main.LatestNews?action=edit | edit news]] somewhere in either the
frame or in the LatestNews page itself.

> 3) I want to be able to set the color of the sticky note as is done with the
> postitnote extension.

    >>rframe width=200px font-size=smaller bgcolor=yellow<<

> 4) And - getting fancier - Would be nice if I could use it conditionally by
> date - if date of LatestNews is older that 30 days don't show it

Ooooh, that one is trickier.  We'd probably need a custom condition
for that --

    (:if lastmodified Main.LatestNews 30:)
    >>postitnote<<
    (:include Main.LatestNews:)
    >><<
    (:ifend:)

although I'd have to figure out the exact syntax I want to use here.

Hope this helps...?

Pm