[pmwiki-users] page actions when viewing a nonexistent page

[Tegan Dowling]

On 2/8/06, Jon Haupt <jhaupt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The engine rewrites all page actions on non-existent pages to
> action=edit.  When viewing a nonexistent page ( i.e.
> http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Foo/Bar), it shows how the process works nicely to
> make sure that the engine doesn't have to bother with requests to, for
> example, print a nonexistent page.
>
> That is a good idea for actions such as diff, print, source, view, etc.,
> but there are actually actions that you can do on any page, regardless of
> whether it exists or not,  i.e. attr, or with recipes--totalcounter,
> setskin, etc.
>
> As an example of why this is annoying, I have a link on my menu that reads
>
> *[[{$Group}.GroupAttributes?action=attr| Group Attributes ]]
>
> Until I actually assign GroupAttributes for a particular group, the wiki
> will always show a link to GroupAttributes?action=edit instead.
>
> Similarly, if I have links to {$Name}?action=setskin in the menus, they
> won't look right on the screen if I'm viewing a nonexistent page.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request, but it'd be
> nice if at least there was some way to specify to the link engine that I
> didn't want to rewrite ?action=whatever to ?action=edit just because the
> page doesn't exist.



Does anyone have a work-around for this:

"As an example of why this is annoying, I have a link on my menu that reads
*[[{$Group}.GroupAttributes?action=attr| Group Attributes ]]

Until I actually assign GroupAttributes for a particular group, the wiki
will always show a link to GroupAttributes?action=edit instead."

?
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