[pmwiki-users] and/or with multiple parameters in pagelist

[Sandy]

Did you get this one solved?

Sandy

Shaney Crawford wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The website that I am working on is an archive of articles from a
> newsletter (http://www.alientimes.org -- but it's about living in
> Tsukuba, Japan, not aliens -- long story).
> 
> About half of the articles that we post every month are about events.
> I would like to be able to list all of the articles that have to do
> with events separately from the articles that do not have to do with
> events.
> 
> Each article is tagged with an issue category (Category.November2006)
> and then one or more other topic categories (Category.Events,
> Category.Classes, etc.).
> 
> Listing all of the articles that DO NOT  have to do with events is
> easy: code (1) gets me a list of pages that do not have to do with
> one-off events (labelled as Category.Events) or classes
> (Category.Classes) or monthly events (Category.CoffeeHour, etc.).
> 
> (1)
> !!Articles
> (:pagelist group=Main Category.November2006 -Events -Classes
> -InternationalWomensNetwork -TsukubaMothersNetwork -CoffeeHour
> -EveningForum:)
> 
> However, the following code doesn't work to give me the reverse of the
> above (i.e. all of the articles that DO have to do with events).
> 
> (2)
> !!Events
> (:pagelist group=Main Category.November2006 Events Classes
> InternationalWomensNetwork TsukubaMothersNetwork CoffeeHour
> EveningForum:)
> 
> The simplest solution might be to label all event related information
> with Category.Events, but I have chosen not to do that because it
> makes the Events page insanely long and difficult to manage.
> 
> Another solution would be to group the articles manually on the index
> page (Main/MasterIndex).  I can do this if I have to, but I would
> prefer to have an automated solution.
> 
> So, my question is, is there a way to write code (2) that I am not aware of?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Shaney.