[Pmwiki-users] Re: any conclusion on catagories ?

[chr@home.se]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:55:25PM +0200, Knut Alboldt wrote:

> The key aspects of building a category are:
> 1.  On every page that belongs to a category "XYZ", create a link on
>     that page to [[Category/XYZ]].

Would [[Category.XYZ]] work? I ask because I can see a point in letting
the link be more explicit in showing that this is a link to a category.
Otherwise you'd have to write something like:
	Categories: [[Category/XYZ]], [[Category/BlahOoopie]]

> 2.  Then, to see a list of all of the pages that belong to category XYZ, 
>     simply do a search to list all pages that have links to the 
>     Category.XYZ page.
> 
> PmWiki 2 makes this second step incredibly simple, since you can get easily 
> generate a list of all pages with links to Category.XYZ by doing
> 
>     (:pagelist Category.XYZ:)

Hmm... will this list all pages that *links* to Category.XYZ, or to all 
pages that contain the text "Category.XYZ"?

/Christian

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