[pmwiki-users] calendars and contact lists

[Lindsay Todd]

Hans wrote:
> Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 11:39:32 PM, Lindsay wrote:
>
>   
>> Anyone have a suggestion on how I could get a calendar that efficiently
>> constructs entries from page text variables of pages in a Contacts (or
>> People) group?  Or some other approach that is efficient and will be
>> flexible enough to allow me to correct dates I've entered, without 
>> having to remember to also correct the corresponding calendar pages?
>>     
>
> What is a calendar?
> With the power of pagelist we could create a list of entries ordered
> by page text variable Date:  or Birthday: from Contacts pages.
> Now the challenge is to format the pagelist output so the resulting
> list or table looks like a calendar. For a start perhaps a listing
> by one day per line. How can empty day lines be created with this new
> calendarlist fmt for pagelist?
>   
Ah, that is an out-of-the-box idea.  Use a pagelist to collect and sort 
the calendar data.  This is useful even as an ordered list, and probably 
even if dates are completely omitted that don't have events associated 
with them.

Then, create some sort of calendar mark-up that formats this into a 
"calendar".  This would solve problems beyond what I proposed.  For 
instance, many blogs have "calendars" linking to posts.  The same 
calendar mark-up could make this, just by using a different pagelist.
> How can a pagelist deliver a range of pages? I think Pm wants to add
> this, but meanwhile we can use extended conditional testing of
> numbers.
>
> I think to get pagelist to output a calenderlist format would be a
> good step forward.
>
>
> Hans
>   


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