[pmwiki-users] Edit Template for a group

[Dr Fred C]

OK, maybe I just can't read the nose in front of my face.  But I can't 
seem to make any sense of how to make Edit Templates do anything but 
provide a site wide template.  What I need is a template for a specific 
group called "Roster". 

The examples in Edit Template documentation aren't particularly clear as 
to how to make this work.  If I put

 $EditTemplatesFmt = 'Roster.PlayerTemplate';.

into the local/config file, I get that Player template showing up site 
wide for every new page. This isn't desirable.    BTW, having to put 
this sort of stuff in local config seems like a kludge solution to this 
problem. 

  IMHO, it would seem intuitive to be able to define the Edit Templates 
one wants to use for any particular group in the home page for that 
group.  Or perhaps one might have a site.edittemplate page where someone 
might define various group templates with something like 
$EditTemplateFmt.Roster = 'Roster.PlayerTemplate';

  Perhaps that's how it can be done. Bottomline, the Edit Template 
documentation doesn't provide any clear example of how one might get the 
Roster.PlayerTemplate file to be the default template for new pages in 
the Roster group.  

Any help sorting this out would be appreciated.  I feel like it's 
something that should be as simple as the nose on my face, but nothing 
seems to get it to work as intended.  

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Always, Dr Fred C
drfredc at drfredc.com