[pmwiki-users] "Importing" Pages?

[Dave Brockman]

Dr Fred C wrote:
> Dave Brockman wrote:
> 
>>I'm a newbie, and I'm old, so please forgive me if this is a totally 
>>stupid question. I have a bunch of lists that I would like to import as 
>>WikiPages. I there some way to do this easily? Copying and pasting works 
>>but is way too slow. Thanks in advance!
>>
>>(old) Dave
> 
> Download and install the cookbook tabtable into your cookbook and put 
> the following line into your local config, somewhere around the 
> EnableGUIButtons command for organizational purposes.
> include_once('cookbook/tabtable.php'); 
> 
> This creates an icon on the edit screen that will convert copy and 
> pasted excel files into tables.
> 
> Depending upon the source and format of your lists, you may be able to 
> copy and paste the list directly into a wiki page then convert into a 
> table.  I've found that list in Word docs typically need to be copy and 
> pasted the into Excel or an OpenOffice spreadsheet, then repeat your 
> copy and paste into the wiki page. 
> 
> Once you've copy and pasted your list into the wiki page, you highlight 
> the copied list and click the tab table icon to convert the copied list 
> into a wiki table.  If the pasted list was of the proper (tab 
> delimited?) format, it will be converted into tables.  If, not, you 
> probably need to add the extra "copy and paste into a spreadsheet" step 
> mentioned about to get things to work.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Always, Dr Fred C
> drfredc at drfredc.com

Thanks! I'll look into this. I need to spend more time with the 
Cookbook! After thinking about my question a bit, I think I got it 
wrong. What I really need is a way to create a page, with contents, with 
a single click. Maybe some kind of page template?

Dave