[pmwiki-users] Irritating Pagelist Problem

[Stirling Westrup]

The Editor wrote:
> Second post...
> 
> I'm having a rather irritating pagelist problem--mostly because it is
> minor enough to ignore, but a nuisance enough to annoy.
> 
> I have a pagelist in my sidebar for all the ZAP code snippets.  For
> some reason, it is missing a couple pages in the group.  No idea why.
> Any thoughts on possible reasons?
> 
> Here's the pagelist markup:
> 
> (:pagelist group=Snippets -RecentChanges name=-*template fmt=#sidebar:)
> * [[Snippets/Comments]]
> * [[Snippets/FileMgmt]]
> * [[Snippets/Forum]]
> 
> (The last three I have to add manually because they don't show up in the list).
> 
> Here's the template:
> 
> [[#sidebar]]
> * [[{=$FullName}|{=$Name}]]
> [[#sidebarend]]
> 
> I'm logged in as an admin so it's not a permissions problem. I'm
> stumped.  If you go to
> 
> http://www.fast.st/zap/pmwiki.php?n=Snippets.JumpList
> 
> you can see the pagelist in the sidebar and another one in the page
> jumplist, both on the same group.  The second pagelist works but not
> the first.
> 
> Any thoughts why this might be?

Its because your (:pagelist ... :) is explicitly asking to exclude any
page that mentions RecentChanges, and those three pages all do.

Maybe you meant to use this pagelist command instead?

  (:pagelist group=Snippets name=-RecentChanges,-*template fmt=#sidebar:)