[pmwiki-users] Page list templates

[Simon]

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 21:27, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:

> You could add a custom page variable holding the first 4 letters of
> $Name:
>
> In local configuration:
>
>    $FmtPV['$Name04'] = 'substr($name, 0, 4)';
>
> And use that in a template:
>
> (:template first "{=$Name04}":)
> '''{=$Name04}:'''
>
> This may work best if the pagelist is ordered by name.
>
> Petko
>
> On 18/03/2025 09:08, Simon wrote:
> > Page list templates are a powerful and useful mechanism in PmWiki.
> >
> > I've got a use case where I have many page names prefixed by date -
> > i.e. "yyyy-mm-dd etc"
> >
> > I would like to group then into years, e.g. by something like this
> >
> > (:template first {(substr {=$Name} 0 4)}:)
> >
> > any suggestions on how I can achieve this.
> > As you may surmise the above does not work
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > PS note interestingly I can do this
> >
> > (:template defaults year='{(substr {=$Name} 0 4)}':)
> > and use {$$year} successfully in the page list template
> >
>
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