[pmwiki-users] Pagelist sorting by by page text variables

[michael paulukonis]

I've added some of this to the wiki under
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PageLists#pagetextvariable

Edit as needed.

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Bowers <pbowers at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Simon <nzskiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble understanding why a pagelist I have written won't come
>> out in order by page text variable
>> order=-$:MonthNum
>> >
>> >
>>
> You've defined your PTV using a markup expression as below:
>
> (:MonthNum:{(ftime fmt="%m" when=(substr {$Name} 4))}:)
>
> pagelist does not evaluate markup expressions when working with PTVs and
> neither are the PTV values cached anywhere. Therefore pagelist is sorting
> the literal values of open-curly-brace followed by open-paren followed by
> the 5 characters "f-t-i-m-e" etc.  Since these literal values are identical
> across all your pages you end up with what appears to be random ordering.
>
> Probably the best way for you to fix this is by hardcoding the $:MonthNum
> in your page-creation template (allowing some flexibility in page naming
> later on) or by defining a PV which does the conversion from the pagename
> to the monthnum.  There are undoubtedly other solutions, but those are the
> first 2 that come to mind...
>
> -Peter
>
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