[pmwiki-users] Pagelists of multiple linkbacks

[Peter Bowers]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:26:20AM -0400, Andy Kaplan-Myrth wrote:
>> Is it possible to use the 'link' option in
>> the pagelist command to display the union of multiple categories?
>> Something like:
>>
>> (:pagelist fmt=#headerinclude
>> link=Category.Personal+Category.Professional count=15 list=blog
>> order=-ctime:)
>
> This is a planned feature but it doesn't exist yet.  On
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/RoadMap it's given as
> "Allow link= option to do wildcards".
>
> However, I'm seriously considering Christian Ridderström's
> suggestion for being able to do set operations on pagelists:
>
>    (:pagelist link=Category.Personal     save=list1 :)
>    (:pagelist link=Category.Professional save=list2 :)
>    (:pagelist from=list1+list2 count=15 list=blog order=-ctime :)

You can see a WikiSh solution to both these problems (the specific for
the category and then the generalized PagelistUnion a bit further
down) at this link:

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiShExamples#PagelistUnion

-Peter