[pmwiki-users] PmWiki questions...

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:31:37AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> After working through the various ZAP questions in my last post I
> ended up with a couple PmWiki questions.
> 
> 1) Is there any possibility of support for a nested tables solution
> like the following?  The markup is too tricky on this for me to
> handle, so I'm submitting it as a feature request to Pm. Or any recipe
> write who cares to try it!  : )

I don't have any current plans to write or support this in the core.

> 2) Is there any way to extend the group permissions system in PmWiki
> so groups could be defined in other ways.  Specifically, I'd like to
> maintain pages like Members.ChessClub containing nothing but lists of
> members (either csv or one to a line) and have it so a page where
> PasswdRead=@ChessClub, all the members will be automatically included
> just as if they were listed on Site.AuthUser.  I could manually add
> them to Site.AuthUser, but the code would be messier, and less secure.

I can extend the permissions system to look in multiple locations
for memberships and passwords, yes.

> 3) I'm wondering with the new forms processing system Pm is
> developing, just how flexible the following syntax is:
> 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SimpleRating?action=edit&editform=Cookbook.RecipeInfoForm
> 
> That is, can it be used with other actions or only edit? More
> importantly, can it work with ZAP forms? 

Since I don't understand all of the ins-and-outs of ZAP forms,
I can't say what will happen.  All that happens with the editform=
parameter is that PmWiki uses the specified page instead of
Site.EditForm .

Pm