[pmwiki-users] Spreadsheet style calculations

DaveG pmwiki at solidgone.com
Thu Dec 28 11:46:52 CST 2006


Looks like that recipe has no concept of arrays (or columns/rows), which 
is going to make it tough to add new data to the table, without having 
to change the formulas each time.

Dow PMWiki have anything built in which could be leveraged?

  ~ ~ Dave

Stirling Westrup wrote:
> DaveG wrote:
>> Is there any way to do basic computations in PMWiki? I have an excel 
>> spreadsheet that I'd like to move onto the wiki. The sheet has the 
>> following columns (actually a few more, but these are the core):
>>
>> Gallons - Miles - Miles/Gallon
>>
>> I'd like to be able to enter the first two cols and have PM calculate 
>> the third. Additionally I'd like to maintain a "Average of Miles/Gallon" 
>> number as well.
>>
>> Is the built-in functionaity to do this, or a Recipe somewhere?
>>
> PageVariableExtensions will allow you to perform simple math on numbers, and
> with some work you can compute your average. I find the recipe somewhat
> difficult to work with, but its currently the only way other than writing your
> own markup extension.
> 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PageVariableExtensions
> 
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