[pmwiki-users] Nested includes and IncludeWithEdit

[Bellave Jayaram]

Patrick,
   I am writing one such methodology document and I will be glad to post it
somewhere for review but it needs a little more beefing up with a real life
case study. This is because I have a certain type of site I want to build
and am trying to build it but I don't have enough knowledge, yet. I will
work on this a little more and get back to you.

   I like the idea of a "recipe bundle" that one can "drop in". 

Jayaram

-----Original Message-----

> The CookBook is a great way for people to discover the various recipes
> within Pmwiki but unfortunately, it is daunting for newbies to wade
through
> it all and to persevere and succeed by trial and error. I believe what we
> need is more of methodology or best practices type of documents that can
> then be used as "Cookie Cutters" to create many useful Pmwiki sites. Maybe
> some documents exist here and there in bits and pieces but I think it
would
> be nice to compile them all in one place.

Yes, it would.  But while lots of people are saying "we should have 
best practices of documents", very few people are saying "here's the 
best practice document I've written, what do you think?" (although 
there are some people who are doing this!).

We have *plenty* of organizational tools at our disposal on pmwiki.org
to build this sort of thing (groups, trails, categories, cookbook
sections, etc.), propose something specific and we can start from 
there.  :-)

> I am hoping in the not too distant future that there would be install
> wizards that go through some of the questions and preconfigure Pmwiki for
a
> particular purpose.   

"Wizards" are very difficult to do cross-platform and in a web
environment, but we might be able to do it.  More likely is to 
have recipe bundles that one simply "drops in" to a standard 
PmWiki installation that causes it to be preconfigured in a 
certain way.

Pm