[pmwiki-users] Modifying Wikiforms

[John Rankin]

On Wednesday, 1 February 2006 3:16 PM, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
>Tegan Dowling wrote:
>I'm just trying to use the Wikilist part of the WikiForms recipe to present
>records in tabular form, with those nifty headings that you can click and
>re-click to sort-ascending and re-sort-descending.
>
>Can anyone suggest a hack to the recipe that will suppress display of the
>first column?

For consistency the page name should work the same way as other columns, 
so it should allow you to omit the page column by writing

    (:wikilist !page:)

No worries -- download the latest version of wikiform.php from
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiForms


But I understand there is a wider requirement, eg Tegan's note that...

The individual pages for the contacts would not be the numbered pages that
feed the (:wikilist:), because I want the page names to be the names of the
individuals, and I want to be able to format the contact pages and add
pictures, etc.

There are at least 2 options for doing this:

1. Retain the page numbering scheme, but use a (:title Textual Name:)
   directive on each page.

   The new [[name |+]] markup could then be used to show the title in
   the (:wikilist:). This would be relatively easy to implement, it
   works "the pmwiki way", but requires an author to specify a title.
   It is probably more robust than using the person's name as a page
   name -- what if the name changes?

2. Modify wikiforms to work off regular page names as well as the
   all numeric pattern.

   I haven't seen a good way to implement this as yet. In particular,
   I haven't come up with a robust way to distinguish between pages
   that are form-based and pages that aren't. Both the form handler 
   and list handler will run into trouble if they try to process
   pages that don't follow the template.

So I tend to favour option 1. It would need to support sorts by 
title instead of name, but that is straightforward.

Comments?
>
>John

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