[pmwiki-users] Pagelists and page text variables - can you help

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:51:33PM +1200, Simon wrote:
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>    I'm trying to use PTVs in a pagelist, but get no output.
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>    (:pagelist group=PITS $:From=simon,Simon fmt={$FullName}#pitsentry :)

Because the From: fields in PITS are usually created as links,
they end up looking like "[[~Simon]]" instead of simply "Simon".
So, you probably want asterisks here, or to explicitly look for
the link:

    (:pagelist group=PITS $:From=*simon* fmt=#pitsentry :)
 or
    (:pagelist group=PITS $:From=[[~simon]] fmt=#pitsentry :)

>  (:pagelist group=Test,PITS name=Ptv* $:Ptv="some times" fmt=#title count=8:) -- works
>  (:pagelist group=Test $:Ptv=No,Maybe fmt=#title count=20:) -- works
>  (:pagelist group=Test $:Ptv='some times',Yes fmt=#title count=20:) -- doesn't work
>  (:pagelist group=Test $:Ptv=Yes,"some times" fmt=#title count=20:) -- doesn't work

Currently page text variables only understand outer quotes, so to
search for 'some times' and 'yes' one uses:

    (:pagelist group=Test $:Ptv='some times,yes' ... :)

I haven't decided if I want to adjust the ParseArgs routine
to be able to handle mixed quotations and commas.

>    What do you think
>    $Ptv=-* means in (:pagelist group=Test $:Ptv=-* fmt=#title count=20:)

No pages will be returned.

>    $Ptv=* means in (:pagelist group=Test $:Ptv=* fmt=#title count=20:)

All pages will be returned.

Pm