[pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Pagelist as report generator

[Vince Administration]

Steve,
Hans will probably answer this, but I think Fox could probably do it.
        Vince

On Aug 20, 2008, at 5:07 AM, Steve Glover wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been stretching PmWiki (and Balu's blogging tools in  
> particular) in
> almost certainly unintended ways by having sets of pages that start  
> off
> by assigning a set of variables and then display them in a particular
> format, and then using a collection of pagelist formats to pull out
> particular views:
>
> For example, I might have a set of pages called YYYY-MM-DD-label that
> start off like:
>
> (:if false:)
> Organisation: Euphoric State University
> Olink: http://www.euphoria.edu
> Contact: Morris Zapp
> Email: mzapp at euphoric.edu
> EL: [[ mailto:{$:Email} | {$:Email} ]]
> Linkname: [[ {$:Olink} | {$:Organisation} ]]
> Joindate: 01/04/07
> ...
> ...
> and ending with, say:
>
> [[#entrybody]]
> !!! {$:Linkname} (joined on {$:Joindate})
> [[#extendedbody]]
> || class="tiger" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 width=90%
> ||! Name ||! Email ||! Address ||
> || ||{$:Contact} ||{$:EL} ||{$:ELaddress} ||
> || ||{$:Contact2} ||{$:EL2} ||{$:ELaddress2} ||
>
> So the first part of the page contains my data and the second half
> displays it.
>
> The reason for using variables, though, is so that I can have an
> aggregator page containing a pagelist:
>
> (:pagelist fmt=BlogOverviewTemplate#shortmemberlist group={$Group}
> name=2???-??-??-* count=999 order=$:Organisation :)
>
> which is formatted thus:
>
> [@
> [[#shortmemberlist]]
> (:template first:)!!!Organisation
> (:template each:)* [[ {=$FullName}| {=$:Organisation} ]] - {=$:Olink}
> [[#shortmemberlistend]]
> @]
>
> Or however we need the data....
>
> Now, I finally come to the actual question:
>
> Producing the individual pages manually using the ordinary pmwiki  
> editor
> was fine when there were only two or three a week. However, we're  
> going
> to need lots more, and it would be useful to use an input form to  
> write
> out the individual pages.
>
> Is there a way in PmWiki of having a form that collects values of
> variables and then writes them out, not to an email, but to a new wiki
> page whose name is constructed from variables in the form?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
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