[pmwiki-users] [WikiForms] automatically list all wikiforms in different groups with (:wikilist:)

[John Rankin]

On Thursday, 7 September 2006 6:45 PM, Hsing-Foo Wang <hsingfoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>> just set up a page with
>>
>> (:wikilist group=Group1:)
>>
>> (:wikilist group=Group2:)
>>
>> and so on. This requires no new code.
>
>Yes, but there are some cons to this for me;
>1. Forms and groups are automatically created upon submitting a new
>project. So to automatically generate a combined listing, the
>mechanism needs to know what groups (projects) to inlcude
>2. If there are 20 projects, I would get 20 seperate tables each
>holding 2 to 5 issues, and each with a table header and header text
>(select all)

As always it's a trade-off based on budget vs priority.

To get something automated working, how about the following,
which would be very simple to implement:

- introduce (:superwikilist Group1 Group2 ... :)

- the markup rule is superwikilist (evaluate after include) ->

(:wikilist group=Group1:)

(:wikilist group=Group2:)

  and so on

- when you automatically create a new project, your program
  adds its name to the list in (:superwikilist ... :)

- we may have to do a minor tweak to wikiforms to include 
  the group name in the table caption

- or (perhaps better), (:superwikilist ... :) generates:

(:toc:)

!!!!Group1

(:wikilist group=Group1:)

!!!!Group2

(:wikilist group=Group2:)

and so on (have to make sure (:superwikilist:) processes
before (:toc:) is generated)

This would get something working, which can be enhanced later.
It meets your criterion that:
>
>For the human eye it they all should appear on the same page.
>
On the "release early, release often" principle, using existing
building blocks to get something out there for comment would
seem to me to be a useful first step. However, I don't know 
anything about your environment.
-- 
JR
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John Rankin