[pmwiki-users] Fwd: Menu-option questions..

[Ben]

Oh how I dislike the gmail interface. It never sends to the
mailinglist addresses,
it has no "Edit or Send message as new" option either, and the stupid linebreaks
are annoying too. (Why don't they give an option to use plain-text for
all messages?
And what's with the strange cursor at gmail? I don't like that branch
added to it.)
So I need to forward it:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ben <marsepein at gmail.com>
Date: Jul 11, 2006 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Menu-option questions..
To: Marc Cooper <gmane at auxbuss.com>


On 7/10/06, Marc Cooper <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> > Can this be done using pmwiki with this same layout remaining in tact?
> > I want to rebuild this site so that it becomes a wiki.
>
> Yes, you can do this - you can do pretty much anything in PmWiki, so
> that's not a surprise.
>
> Off the top of my head, I'd do something like this: create a group for
> each top-menu item - if that makes sense to you - then create a group
> sidebar entry for each group. Then either change your template to always
> use the group template, or remove the group sidebar option and embed the
> group sidebar in the site sidebar. e.g. In skin .tmpl
>
>   <div id='sidebar'>
>     <!--wiki:$SiteGroup.SideBar-->
>   <div>
>
> then in site.sidebar
>
>   (:if !group site :)
>   (:include {$Group}.sidebar:) (:if:)

OK I think I can get that done.
This means that with each Group the same sidebar will be there
on all pages within that Group, right?
I first need to find out how and where to create different Groups,
but I think I will manage to find that out. Any quick hints on that?

> In addition, you also have the option of hard-coding the group sidebar
> links in group.sidebar (i.e. [[Group.PageOne]]), or using pagelist via
> something like
>
>   %sidehead% [[Marc]]
>   (:pagelist link=Category.MarcHeadings fmt=#title order=title:)
>
> then adding the category link to appropriate pages - you can hide the
> link in the page.

Eeh.. could you explain this last thing some more?
You mean all the different grouplinks are there, bit somewhat hidden.

> Of course, you don't have to use sidebar at all, but could use floating
> divs. So many ways :-)

That's not really necessary, I want the site to be as lightweight as possible.

> --
> Best,
> Marc

Thanks for the hints, I'm glad it can be done.
It will really be helpful if it becomes a wiki, because that way I
don't need to do
the ever-annoying double tasks of translating word-docs into html and
crap like that.

I will ask some more soon I guess.. ;-)

Ben