[pmwiki-users] Pagelist and filtering recent changes

[Mike Bishop]

Well, to answer my own question ...

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0800, Mike Bishop wrote:
> 
>        I have a small cms-like site (www.waco-ak.org) where the
>        homepage should display a list of the last five recent
>        changes.  Clearly, certain changes should not be shown, and
>        that's where the problems start.
> 
>          1.  The trail= option seems to be (by observation) fairly
>              exclusive.  That is, you cannot use it with a custom
>              list= option where filtering might take place.
> 
>          2.  I tried adding a filter within a custom fmt= option;
>              that is, testing for groups I did not want included.
>              I couldn't get that to work (doesn't mean it will not,
>              just that I lacked the skill).  The fmt I use is a
>              slightly altered version of #forum.
> 
>          3.  I tried using group=-Site,-Test,-Util then an
>              order=-time;  results here were strange (2.1.18 &
>              beta15) with some results showing the current machine
>              time.  If this /should/ have worked I need to start
>              disabling recipes ...
> 

It turns out that the pages that caused the odd behaviour were ones
I generated from troff source into wiki markup ... and where I set
ctime to nanoseconds ....  Mea culpa.  Anyway, the above (3) seems to
work although I would think it less efficient that grabbing lines
from AllRecentChanges.

Sorry for the noise,
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Mike Bishop        907/495-5737                 mbishop at mtaonline.net
Willow, Alaska