[pmwiki-users] [WikiForms] automatically list all wikiforms indifferent groups with (:wikilist:)
Bellave Jayaram
bellavejayaram at cox.net
Wed Sep 6 22:37:14 CDT 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> >
> There are a couple of things to bear in mind:
>
> (:wikilist:) displays the name, not the full name, so if you
> have one list that combines several groups, there will be
> several lines referring to "00001".
>
> Um, did you know you can write (:wikilist group=Group1:) to
> generate a list of items from a different group? So just set
> up a page with
>
> (:wikilist group=Group1:)
>
> (:wikilist group=Group2:)
>
> and so on. This requires no new code.
>
>
>
> If you want to merge them into a single multi-group list,
> that will be more difficult. Because of the way it retrieves
> and sorts pages, I suspect you may have to scrap the wikilist
> code and start again. You'd have to wrap the whole thing in a
> 'for each group' loop and add a groupname to the front of
> every sort. Possible, but very messy.
>
> You say "together on 1 page" so it depends whether you mean
> together = in the same list or together = on the same page.
> --
> JR
> --
> John Rankin
HF,
Perhaps this thread where John answered my question might give you
some clues on how to build your page:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/26448/focus=26544
Jayaram
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