<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 2, 2006, at 7:06 AM, The Editor wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 10/2/06, Patrick R. Michaud <<A href="mailto:pmichaud@pobox.com">pmichaud@pobox.com</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(:pagelist $Title=*alpha* fmt=#title:)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(:pagelist $Title=a* fmt=#title:)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(:pagelist $:State=TX :)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(:pagelist $:State=CA,TX,AK :)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This feature is wonderful Pm!<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Splendid.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Thanks for all your hard</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">work.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This will be especially useful when you can pass values into</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the pagelist template so you could specify which state to check, or</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">which letter of the alphabet.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This saves you from having to have a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">pagelist template for each state or letter.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You mentioned you might try to add this in somewhere in this round of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">beta's.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I hope it is an easy capability to add.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Martin's</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PagelistExtension recipe already does this, but I haven't checked to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">see if it would work yet with the new code.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm hoping it will move</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">into core.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ok --</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>FASTData has formatted my Simile-Data group as</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.3px;">Work="Of Mice and Men"</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I use the data to produce pages like:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://similepedia.com/index.php/Simile/OfMiceAndMen:SteinbeckJohn:AFarRushOf">http://similepedia.com/index.php/Simile/OfMiceAndMen:SteinbeckJohn:AFarRushOf</A></DIV><DIV>but everything on the page right now is formed through GroupHeader and GroupFooter</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I set up some sample searches on:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://similepedia.com/index.php/Searches/Test">http://similepedia.com/index.php/Searches/Test</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>!!Simile group search for $:Work contains "mice"</DIV><DIV>(:pagelist group=Simile $:Work=*mice*:)</DIV><DIV>----</DIV><DIV>!!Simile-Data - search for $:Work contains "mice"</DIV><DIV>(:pagelist group=Simile-Data $:Work=*mice*:)</DIV><DIV>----</DIV><DIV>!!Simile search page titles for "mice"</DIV><DIV>(:pagelist group=Simile $Title=*mice*:)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Only the natural PmWiki search (the third one) works. I didn't expect the other two to yet, but it was worth looking to see.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So, Caveman -- I'm going to need the translation from the current FASTData data page to a PmWiki natural page. (from <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.3px;">Work="Of Mice and Men" to Work:Of Mice and Men )</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>PM -- I'm also going to need some way to look at the data in one group and return the corresponding page in another group:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Very important -- for compatibility with storing data on other pages, which many recipes may be using. there may be a way to do this with a custom #fmt but I haven't figured it out yet :/</DIV><DIV>(:pagelist $:Work=*mice* source=Data-Simile.* return=Simile.$Name:)</DIV><DIV>In this case I can hard-code the source and return groups, but people may eventually need that to be dynamic. :/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Less important:</DIV><DIV>Return the list, group by authors (list only one per author), point to the category pages "Author_AuthorsName".</DIV><DIV>(:pagelist $:Work=*mice* source=Data-Simile.* return=Category.Author_$:WAuthor :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Does this make sense?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also is there a way to group the responses by a data field? Or have it list a unique datafield?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>