[pmwiki-users] New Input Select -- populate drop down from single page content?

[Petko Yotov]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 05:05, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> But could contents of a single page  become the pull down menu items?
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> I thought the easiest way to maintain this would be to have a single
> page with the
> groups (it could be any list though... alpha beta gamma) you want to
> appear in the drop down menu.
> instead of having to iterate these in the page list declarations. This
> would allow a naive user to
> control the content of the pull where she might be otherwise
> trepidatious about editing

You can use 

(:pagelist fmt=#dropdownlist trail=Group.LinksToInclude :)

Inside the page [[Group.LinksToInclude]]  you set a list:

* [[Oranges/]]
* [[Apples/]]

etc. 

See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PageLists and
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PagelistExplained

Petko