[pmwiki-users] New User Greetings and a question

Simon nzskiwi at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 03:29:03 CST 2014


One of the fundamental PMWiki design decisions
<http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DesignNotes> is related to wiki groups.
Please see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/HierarchicalGroups for the
background to this


On 24 December 2014 at 18:28, Christopher Cox <ccox at endlessnow.com> wrote:

> On 12/23/2014 02:09 PM, Kirk Siqveland wrote:
> > Howdy all!
> >
> > I am a bit rusty on my HTML/CSS but getting a few projects going and I
> found
> > PMWiki - what a delight!
> >
> > I am pre-launch and very much "under construction" on an ambitious
> website and
> > PMWiki has made building the site much easier.
> >
> > In the meantime I welcome advice and suggestions.
> > http://www.humeris.net/wiki/pmwiki.php
> >
> > Please do not link to this URL as it is just the construction site, I
> will have
> > it at its proper address soon...
> >
> > I have however, been trying to figure out something I believe should
> work but I
> > can't get it to work...
> > I'm using Triad skin and trying to set a RightBar that is specific to a
> single
> > page...
> > I can get group-specific RightBars to work fine...
> >
> > this works fine >>>
> >
> http://www.humeris.net/wiki/pmwiki.php/Inventions-Telegraph/RightBar?action=edit
> > but
> > This does not >>>
> >
> http://www.humeris.net/wiki/pmwiki.php/Inventions-Telegraph/Telegraph/RightBar?action=edit
> >
>
> PmWiki fundamentals... you have Group/Page and that's it.
>
> You can still simulate deep hierarchies using Categories though.... but url
> wise, just the two things... Group/Page
>
> I guess more specifically it's Group.Page and that is indeed how they are
> stored
> by default on your server's disk.
>
> Hope that helps.  So... don't think deep.... which is sort of a good thing
> as it
> keeps the URLs from getting out of hand.
>
> Some other potential hints....
>
> Let's say you have Inventions-Telegraph as a group and Telegraph as a
> page... so
>
> Inventions-Telegraph/Telegraph
>
> You could include a RightBar based on page name...
>
> (:include RightBar.{*$Name}:)
>
> Or perhaps by group name...
>
> (:include RightBar.{*$Group):)
>
> Just some ideas that might give you some organizational ideas....
>
> Now, if the above is confusing, you might want to ignore the default PmWiki
> template setup (or examine and modify it)... that way you might get a
> better
> feel for just how powerful and awesome a site can be with PmWiki.
>
> Note, you could include the RightBar (above) inside the skin template, but
> maybe
> you abstract things out further.... again, just play around with it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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