[pmwiki-users] Possible new Group/ and Group. syntax extension for pagelists

[Martin Fick]

--- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:22:10PM -0700, Martin
> Fick wrote:
> > While cleaning up the Pagelist pages I ran into
> the
> > following thought: what if the new Group/ or
> Group.
> > syntaxs were extended to make for a much simpler
> > fmt=#group definition?
> > 
> > (:pagelist name=*/:)
> > 
> > This would list only Group homepages. :)
> > 
> > With this we could eliminate the need for the
> > conditional in the bygroup syntax AND restore the
> > proper functioning of count for this format!
> 
> There might be times when we want to list groups
> (using #bygroup)
> that aren't just homepages.  For example, in
> blogging, to
> display all of the groups with a page in January
> 2006:
> 
>     (:pagelist name=200601* fmt=#bygroup:)


Good Point.

Maybe a simpler and probably more appropriate solution
would be to enhance the list parameter like this:

  list=group - only list one page per group (homepage
prefereably)

  list=homepage - only list pages which qualify as
homepages

Again, this would help correct the count issue.

-Martin


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