[pmwiki-users] drowning in information overload

[Hans]

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 8:32:10 PM, .rp wrote:

> *   limit the search for searches, especially the search box on the sidebar

Create a SideBar page for each (wiki)group, and redefine the searchbox
on it. I assume for a moment that you have a SideBar with a
(:seachbox:) markup on it.
You can add parameters to the (:searchbox:) markup, the same
parameters as you can add to (:pagelist:) markup.
So for instance (:searchbox group={*Group} :) will only search the
current group.

If you don't have (:searchbox:) markup in your sidebart, depending on the
skin you use, you probably have to edit the skin template, perhaps
replace the HTMl searchbox tags in it with
<!--markup:(:searchbox add your parameters here:)-->


> *   Show list of recent changes for only certain sections

You can remove/hide the link to the RecentChanges page for certain
groups. Depending on the skin it is either in Site.PageActions,
Site.PageTopMenu (Gemin, FixFlow and Triad skins) or perhaps in the
skin's template. This will still leave a RecentChanges page in the
group (there is one for each group when pages have been modified or
created).

If you want no RecentChanges page in certain groups, create
local/GroupName.php files and add to each:

  $RecentChangesFmt['$Group.RecentChanges'] = "";

Remove any existing RecentChanges page from the group.
In future page modifications will not be written to RecentChanges (but
still to Site.AllRecentChanges)


Hans