[Pmwiki-users] User name in Beta4

Jean-Claude wiki
Fri Feb 6 11:58:31 CST 2004


Excellent!
It is very straightforward and intuitive for the user.

Jean-Claude
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
To: "Jean-Claude" <wiki at jcgg.net>
Cc: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Pmwiki-users] User name in Beta4


> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:59:24AM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:12:13PM +0100, Jean-Claude wrote:
> > > Right now, when using [[$LastModifiedBy]]:
> > > - JeanClaude triggers a ?, as expected,
> > > - Jean-Claude does not; it should!
> > > - JCG or jcg do not; they should!
> >
> > I agree that they should--I just haven't had a chance to update
the
> > $LastModifiedBy link appropriately, because I'm waiting for a
decision
> > to be made about the signature syntax to see if it might be
appropriate.
>
> ...and I started to do this for [[$LastModifiedBy]] but soon decided
> against it.  To me, [[$LastModifiedBy]] should always be replaced by
> the authors name, and only the author's name, because it might be
used in
> contexts where the link to the author group isn't appropriate.  If
> someone wants to generate a link to the appropriate user page, it's
> easily done with
>
>    Profiles/{{[[$LastModifiedBy]]}}
>
> or, if/when we develop a signature shortcut:
>
>    --[[$LastModifiedBy]]
>
> I've demonstrated the first version on
> http://www.pmichaud.com/work/beta/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage -- it was
> relatively easy to put together.
>
> Of course, a local administrator can customize the meaning of
> [[$LastModifiedBy]] or create a new syntax/directive with the
> desired effects built in.
>
> Pm
>
>





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