[pmwiki-users] A Group Hierarchy

[J. Meijer]

Good idea.

Me myself made a similar idea into a (:sitemap:) script that takes links 
mainly from the sidebar and builds them in a tree format of the site. Works 
wonders ;-) revealing structure you knew was there. And also what's 
obviously missing.

Notes:
- the root can be any (user-) page, so each user can have his own view on 
the site.
- pages for testing typically don't appear because there is no path from the 
root that reaches them. This cleans up your typical view, more so then 
simple grouplists.
- some groups are explicitly removed from the sitemap, like PmWiki.

Guess time has come to post it. Maybe something like this has already been 
cooked?

With regard to your idea I used the sitebar because it typically lists 
subsections... and because actual order (as in a trail) is not significant.


Anyway good idea, way to go!



On 2/3/06, Johs. Lind <lind at geltzer.dk> wrote:

    I think I have found a way to make a nice virtual group hierarchy:

    Say I’m writing my memories. I want a group for each town where I have
    lived, and for each town there will be a number of chapters.
    I create a group called ‘Memories’, and in that group I create the page
    ‘Index’
    In Memories.GroupHeader I add this markup:
    <<|[[Index]]|>>
    In Memories.Index I place the trailing list:
    *[[Town1]]
    *[[Town2]]
    *[[Town3]]
    *[[Town4]]

    These town-pages are still in group Memories, and each of them are going
    to have a trailing list. - E.g. in Town1 the contents could be:
    *[[Town1/Chapter1]]
    *[[Town1/Chapter2]]
    *[[Town1/Chapter3]]

    That will create the group Town1, and its groupheader should be given
    this markup:
    <<|[[Memories/Town1]]|>>

    You could also make one of those chapters into a new trailing list. Say
    Chapter2:
    *[[Chapter2/Item1]]
    *[[Chapter2/Item2]]
    *[[Chapter2/Item3]]

    That would create the group Chapter2, and it should have the markup:
    <<|[[Town1/Chapter2]]|>>

    And so you can make the hierarchy as deep as you want.

    --
    Johs. Lind,