[pmwiki-users] pagelist is creating links relative to the current group?

[Américo Albuquerque]

----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] pagelist is creating links relative to the 
current group?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:26:48 -0500
From: "Patrick R. Michaud"

(...)
 > The crux of the problem is that there are multiple possibilities for
 > a group's "default home page"-- i.e., for a group XYZ the default
 > home page can be either "XYZ.XYZ" or "XYZ.HomePage". (Actually, a
 > site administrator can have any number of default home pages
 > for a group -- these two are just the PmWiki default.)
I thought that was what $DefaultPage was for, to define what the default 
home page was.

 >
 > So, when generating a link to the "group home" and no group home
 > page exists, we don't have any real way of knowing what name to
 > choose, and so far I've been reluctant to impose a choice upon
You simply choose the value of {$DefaultName}. If a site wants a 
different name then just defines this variable with a different value in 
a local config.

 > sites. Some sites seem to prefer the XYZ.XYZ form of group home,
 > while others prefer XYZ.HomePage. (There are situations where each
 > is more appropriate than the other, which is why PmWiki allows a
 > choice.)
Since you can also have {$group}.php config files you can define 
{$DefaultName} differentely for each group

 >
 > However, the present situation of having a group home inadvertently
 > link into the current group is worse than nothing, so we need
 > to fix it.
The problem is how to know if [[sometext]] is a group name without a 
page name or a page name without a group name. What if the site had a 
group called XYZ and a page called Main.XYZ? Wich one would [[XYZ]] link 
to when used in the Main group? The XYZ group or the Main.XYZ page? We 
could add a new markup like [[g:XYZ]] to state that we want the XYZ 
group, not the Main.XYZ page

 >
 > Does anyone have an idea about how PmWiki can select an appropriate
 > name for the group home when no default page exists for the group?
 > Should we just say that PmWiki always defaults to "XYZ.XYZ" in
 > this case, or ... ?
It should choose XYZ.{$DefaultName}, that what's that variable is for, 
right?

 >
 > ----
 >
 > An alternate approach: Another approach would be to add a {$GroupUrl}
 > page variable that references the group home url, analogous to
 > the existing {$PageUrl}. The advantage of this approach is that
 > it works regardless of the name used for group home pages. The
 > disadvantages are that it will render as an external link instead
 > of a page link (i.e., like an InterMap or http: link), and will
 > have the same look even if the target default page doesn't exist.
 > For the PmWiki skin this isn't a big difference, but for other
 > skins it could be somewhat confusing.
I don't see any difference in using either (except in the actual link 
that is :D). Using {$PageUrl} is also rendered as an external link. If 
the default group homepage doesn't exist it will show the "404 not 
found, create new page" page.

Regards,
Americo Albuquerque