[pmwiki-users] pagelists link= with pages generated externally
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed May 9 16:41:18 CDT 2007
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:23:59PM +0200, Christophe David wrote:
> As suggested in http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PageFileFormat , I
> generate PmWiki pages from external applications, in order to produce
> reports and other things while taking advantage of all the PmWki features.
>
> Everything works fine, except that I cannot get categories to work
> properly :
> ...
> When I read the page Reports.ReportNumber1 and then click on the link to
> CategoryName1, PmWiki loads the page and displays the
> ReportsCategories.GroupFooter,
> but the pagelist remains empty.
>
> If I then do some manual editing in the page, the pagelist works OK and
> shows the links to the page.
>
> I guess PmWiki must do some internal "indexing" when saving the pages,
> that is uses later on to retrieve the links to the pages efficiently.
>
> Is this correct ?
This is correct. The problem is likely that the page is missing
the targets= attribute; PmWiki uses this to determine which pages
link to the corresponding Category page.
> If yes, can an action be used or a function be called to "re-index" so
> that the pagelists using link= work OK with pages generated externally ?
At present there's not a re-index function other than editing the
page... but I might be able to come up with one.
It might turn out to be as simple as (untested!)
if ($action == 'reindex')
{ $action = 'edit'; $_POST = array('post'=>'1'); }
Executing ?action=reindex on any page will then cause PmWiki to
regenerate the page, as if someone had done an edit+save sequence.
Again, this is untested, so you might want to try it on a page
you can safely lose if something goes wrong. :-)
Pm
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