[pmwiki-users] Search box on PmWiki.org
Sandy
sandy at onebit.ca
Wed Jan 24 10:38:01 CST 2007
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:13:22AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:01:45PM -0500, DaveG wrote:
>>> For groups, how about:
>>> (:pagelist presort=group1,group2 :)
>> Well, I was somewhat hoping to not limit this capability to
>> just groups and pagenames -- what if I wanted to set the output
>> sequence based on a page variable or page text variable?
>>
>> For example, in PITS I might want to display PITS pages
>> sorted by the $:Category value such that all "Bug" pages
>> appear first, followed by "Feature", followed by "Documentation",
>> followed by everything else.
>>
>> The current pagelist code makes it relatively easy to provide
>> this sort of capability in a local customization file (using
>> a custom order= parameter), but I was hoping to find a general
>> way to do it from markup.
>
> Hmmm, perhaps we could put the desired ordering in parens
> or brackets after the item to be ordered?
>
> (:pagelist order=$Group(PmWiki,Cookbook,PITS,*) :)
> (:pagelist order=$:Category(Bug,Feature,Documentation,*) :)
>
> But then if someone wants to select only Bug/Feature/Documentation
> (and display in that order), we get the unwieldy
>
> (:pagelist order=$:Category(Bug,Feature,Documentation)
> $:Category=Bug,Feature,Documentation :)
>
> So, perhaps it's more appropriate as some sort of marker that
> means "order by" in the selection attribute itself, as in:
>
> (:pagelist $:Category=(Bug,Feature,Documentation) :)
>
> which means to select only those pages where $:Category is
> "Bug", "Feature", or "Documentation", and to display them in
> that sequence. To sort by name within those groupings,
> one would use:
>
> (:pagelist order=$:Category,name $:Category=(Bug,Feature,Documentation) :)
>
> Pm
One extra search field, incorporating group= on pmwiki.org, that's all I
was expecting. And instead we get ... something that will be even more
powerful.
Just remember to activate it on PmWiki.org, 'k? I've got a potential
convert, and after saying how easy and streamlined it is, I then had to
tell him to ignore the first 3/4 of any search results. Doesn't inspire
the confidence the program deserves.
Sandy
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