[pmwiki-users] Page lists separated by topic (category)

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

A user (Jose', a LyX developer actually) asked me for a method that lets 
a wiki page automatically list pages in a group accoring to topic (or 
category really). The result might look like this:

 	WindowsInstaller
 		NSIS-Options
 		UwesInstalle

 	Release14
 		ImportantBugs14
 		ReleaseNotes14
 		ReleaseProcedure

 	Release15
 		ImportantBugs15
 		ReleaseNotes15
 		ReleaseProcedure

 	Other pages...
 		SomePage

What Jose' wants is a way to say that a page is related to e.g. the 
Windows installer, and have that page listed under that 
section/topic/category. This could of course be done by manually creating 
the list as a trail, but that's not very appealing (especially to a 
developer ;-).

I asked Jose' if a page could belong to more than one 
section/topic/category, and he agreed (albeit a bit relucantly).

Anyway, to be quick about it, I implemented something here:
 	http://wiki.lyx.org/Test/PagelistUsingCategories

The solution uses several manually created pagelists for pages belonging 
to the different categories. Here is an example of one of the pagelist 
commands:

 	!!! Windows installer
 	(:pagelist group=Devel link=Category.WindowsInstaller :)

However, this solution has a few drawbacks, with which I hope you can help 
me:

* I have to manually specify and type quite a bit for each category.
   Perhaps a custom markup is useful here.

** It'd be nice if the resulting pagelist could automatically be
    headed by a description that's extracted from the category page.

** It'd be nice if it could be done automatically for all the categories,
    so that you don't have to specify each category manually.

* How do you list the pages that have not been listed so far?
   This can be pages that either don't belong to any category, or
   that belong to a category that was forgotten.

I know I've brought up similar issues regarding pagelists before, so I'm 
hoping there's been some progress :-)

Best regards
/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr