[pmwiki-users] How to tag pages like categories, then do pagelist of everything tagged with a given page (without using links)
Alex Eftimiades
alexeftimiades at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 19:32:38 CDT 2012
No, in part because you cannot have subcategories. I looked into
categories. I need to be able to associate any page with any other
page--treating pages like tags. This allows me to automatically
generate "see also" sections.
Thanks though,
Alex
On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:
> Aren't Categories what you need?
>
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Categories
>
> You can have tags or categories [[!Liver]], [[!Cancer]] in your
> pages; they link to pages in the Category/ group. You can change
> this group to Tags/ if you want.
>
> You can see how the pages in the Cookbook are organized with
> Categories.
>
> Your backlinks at the bottom of every page are exactly backlinks,
> and the links to the Category/ pages are categories.
>
> But again, there is no easy way to link to a page without having a
> pagelist show that page. Some people use a PageVariable like this:
> [[{Group.Page$PageUrl}|text]] or [[{OtherGroup.OtherPage$PageUrl}|
> text]]
>
> This link will not appear as a backlink, but unfortunately it is
> much more difficult to type.
>
> There are also a number of implementations for links/tags in the
> Cookbook, you may wish to browse it:
>
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Category/Links
>
> Petko
>
> Alex Eftimiades writes:
>> In short, yes, I believe that would be the sort of thing I am
>> interested in. However having them appear on the page is somewhat
>> desirable for me. The important thing is being able to specify
>> which links show up in a pagelist link=... and which do not. In my
>> system, every page is considered a category. I place a link to page
>> B at the top of page A and a link to page A automatically shows up
>> at the bottom of page B. This system works great for determining
>> related texts, but it is limiting in that links are now used solely
>> for tagging pages. I cannot add a link to another page without
>> tagging it as a category. It would be nice to be able to chose to
>> have a list of links act as categorical tags and the rest act as
>> normal links.
> ...
>>> This generally works great. I am worried I may at some point want
>>> to include links in the text without having them treated like
>>> tags. I would also like to have these tags displayed in the edit
>>> form in a separate block of text. All of this is not critical at
>>> the moment, but I worry that my current system is limiting.
>>> Furthermore, I would rather spend a day fixing a couple hundred
>>> pages than spend a week fixing a couple thousand pages sometime
>>> in the future.
>>> One method I thought of was to have all the links that are to be
>>> treated as tags in the page's header and having a separate text
>>> block in the edit form for that.
>>> If anyone knows how to do that or something that would work
>>> equally well, please let me know.
>
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