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I don't want to belabor the point, but would there be some way to carry
context with a page for the farm situation?<br>
<br>
As you may know I use a farm like departments in a magazine: much
independence, but also much cross-referencing -- using my
(:includefieldpage field=Newsletter September2006.SomeArticle:)
directive.<br>
<br>
This (together with intermap for internal cross-referenced links of all
kinds) has worked extremely well. I could certainly see wanting to
avail myself of saved attributes, with functions (data + algorithms =
programs, right?). So I'm basically wondering if I'll have to abandon
the farm model to take advantage of this enormous leap that PmWiki is
about to take.<br>
<br>
Put another way, I can now include arbitrary pages from any farm field
in any other, including embedded images and links, by following the
simple conventions of using includefieldpage and intermap-style links
everywhere (rather than (:include:) and Attach:). It is massive re-use
of material at work (really quite excellent), while affording
appropriate (conceptual and operational) independence to the various
farm fields. If your new data handling mechanisms don't "travel" (among
farm fields), then pages containing them would have to be off limits,
which sounds like it would sort of break my concept (and
implementation?).<br>
<br>
Am I getting this?<br>
<br>
Again, my aim is definitely not to throw a monkey-wrench in the works...<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
- Henrik<br>
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Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:29:51PM -0400, Henrik Bechmann wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Any chance you would allow
{function(args)InterMapEntry:Group.PageName#section$[:?]var}
(or some such) to accommodate farms?
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Probably not, at least not in the core. In order to read information
from other wikis in a farm, PmWiki has to know the location of
the other wikis' page directories, and that's not typically
available from an InterMap link.
In addition, there are any number of security issues involved;
especially if any of the wikis in the farm have any read passwords
set. Farms are primarily intended as an administrative convenience,
not a data sharing one.
Pm
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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