[pmwiki-users] A Would it Work? Question

[Dave Brockman]

Dave Brockman wrote:
> Hans wrote:
> 
>>Saturday, March 24, 2007, 10:44:54 AM, Dave wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Suppose I create a Page1 in group Alpha which uses :include: to include
>>>information from several pages also named Page1 in other groups. On the
>>>server I would then copy Alpha/Page1 to Alpha/Page2 and, with an editor
>>>(like sed), change any references to Page1 in the file to Page2. If I
>>>then create a link in the wiki to Alpha/Page2, would the page exist?
>>
>>
>>You can rename the filenames of wiki pages, and the page will exists
>>with its new name in your wiki. To change the internal name (inside
>>the file) is not so important. PmWiki will sort this out when the page
>>gets edited at some point.
>>
>>Link references inside the page will only work if either the pagename
>>is full: Group plus Name, or you have not moved th epage into a
>>differnet group , i.e. changed the Group part of the name.
>>
>>In your example changing all internal references from Page1 to Page2
>>will also change references to pages in other groups with name Page1,
>>since now the links will point to Group.Page2 instead. So that may not
>>be what you desired.
>>
>>
>>
>>Hans
> 
> 
> Thanks Hans! This gives me the confidence to try it. At least manually 
> for one page. The internal references *are* Group plus Name. They appear 
> mostly in :include: directives and Edit links to the "other" group 
> pages. The plan is to allow pages in the other groups to be edited but 
> not the display pages in the Alpha group. This seems to work, the Alpha 
> pages are nice and simple, but I am not sure it is the best way.
> 
> Dave

It worked! :-)