[Pmwiki-users] AdminQ 1 - RecentChanges versus AllRecentChanges

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:13:17PM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
> 
>    If  an  admin is running a very small site, but with many Groups, it's
>    misleading  for  users  to  click  on "Recent Changes" and not see any
>    Recent  Changes except those in the Main group.  One would expect that
>    they will see recent changes for the entire site.
> 
> 
> 
>    Then  again,  on  larger sites, it might be overwhelming to see recent
>    changes  for  the entire site .. user may want to click recent changes
>    to see only what's new in that particular group.
> 
> 
> 
>    Currently  I  feel  the  behaviour  of  Recent  Changes  is  not  very
>    intuitive.
> 
> 
> 
>    My  personal  preference  is  for method 1 (above), that RecentChanges
>    defaults to ALL Recent Changes.
> 
>    Q1   How can I change this behaviour site wide, or just on a per group
>    basis,  so  that  clicking on the Recent Changes link shows ALL recent
>    changes?

You mean that you want Main.RecentChanges to show all changes--the same
as Main.AllRecentChanges does now?  Just do

$RecentChanges = array(
  'Main.RecentChanges'=>'* $Group.$Tlink . . . $CurrentTime by $AuthorLink',
  'Main.AllRecentChanges'=>'* $Group.$Tlink . . . $CurrentTime by $AuthorLink',
  '$Group.RecentChanges'=>'* $Group/$Tlink . . . $CurrentTime by $AuthorLink');

This will put changes for all groups into both Main.RecentChanges and 
Main.AllRecentChanges, while each non-Main group will have its own 
customized RecentChanges page.  (For those who may be concerned that the
array above might cause changes to be listed twice in the group Main--
PmWiki already checks for this.)

>    Q2   How  do  other's  feel  about  this  current behaviour?  Like it?
>    Dislike it? Want to see it changed or improved some how?

As usual, PmWiki lets you customize this behavior to whatever you
think is best.

Pm