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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: DaveG [<A HREF="mailto:pmwiki@solidgone.com">mailto:pmwiki@solidgone.com</A>]<BR>
Martin Fick wrote:<BR>
> > Well, that's part of the reason for:<BR>
> > Cookbook/RemoveQuestionMark, specifically the group-wise<BR>
> > section.<BR>
> It looks like that removes the question mark, rather than changing the<BR>
> link to a read link, ie, the link still opens the page in Edit mode.<BR>
<BR>
Well, that's true for the specific instance case, but not<BR>
for the group-wise fix, I wrote teh later one for my site<BR>
(but not for Categories). I'm not sure about the entire site<BR>
solution.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
> > But in the case of Categories, I think you still have the<BR>
> > problem that you cannot do a pagelist and get the Categories<BR>
> > which do not actually have a page.<BR>
> Yeah, I've basically been struggling with this for a long time. The<BR>
> GroupFooter mechnism very quickly outlives it's utility.<BR>
<BR>
Well it still seems convenient to get an automatic pagelist,<BR>
even if the category page exists.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
> I find categories to be very powerful, but having to create a page for<BR>
> each category, without a mechanism to monitor when new categories are<BR>
> created provides a pretty open way to get things out of synch very<BR>
> quickly.<BR>
<BR>
In the case of nested categories, this is an argument for<BR>
keeping the question mark for categories. This way anyone<BR>
creating a new category will be aware that they should<BR>
potentially place that category in another category.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
> How do other people handle categories? Is there a way to pre-limit<BR>
> categories, or to somehow know when a new category is used?<BR>
<BR>
I use them, but do not feel like I have quite figured out<BR>
everything with them. I don't know what you mean by pre-limit<BR>
them? As for new cateogries, I think taht others have suggested<BR>
a recipe for that in the past, the one that finds broken links?<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
-Martin<BR>
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