PmWiki | Cookbook / DynamicTrails

Summary: Dynamic WikiTrails with pagelist

Version: 1

Prerequisites: pmwiki 2.1

Status: experimental

Maintainer:

Categories: Links, CMS, WikiTrails

Questions answered by this recipe

How can I create a trail through the pages of a group without having a trailpage?

Description

Add the following pagelist template formats to your Site.LocalTemplates:

#grouptrail

Dynamic trail of form prev.Name | Group | next.Name

[[#grouptrail]]
(:if equal {$FullName} {=$FullName}:)[[{<$FullName}|+]] | [[{$Group}]] | [[{>$FullName}|+]](:if:)
[[#grouptrailend]]

#grouptrail2

Dynamic trail of form <<prev | Group | next>>

[[#grouptrail2]]
(:if equal {$FullName} {=$FullName}:)[[{<$FullName}| &laquo; prev ]] | \
[[{$Group}]] | [[{>$FullName}| next &raquo; ]](:if:)
[[#grouptrail2end]]

Add to the group's GroupHeader or GroupFooter page the trail markup:

For a trail of form PreviousPageName | Group | NextPageName

(:pagelist group={$Group} fmt=#grouptrail :)

For a trail of form <<prev | Group | next>>

(:pagelist group={$Group} fmt=#grouptrail2 :)

The trail markup will link to previous and next pages in the group, and to the group's homepage. The group's homepage does not need to contain a list of pages, the pagelist markup is generating the trail links.

Variation: fmt=#nextontrail

dynamic trail of form NextPageName link

[[#nextontrail]]
(:if equal {$FullName} {=$FullName}:)Next page: [[{>$FullName}|+]](:if:)
[[#nextontrailend]]

Notes

Release Notes

Comments

How do you make sure that RecentChanges and GroupFooter don't show up in the navigation when using the Dynamic Trails recipe? ~Steve 6/5/06

Answer: Try using the list=normal option to PageList - Martin Fick June 05, 2006, at 11:24 AM

This worked for me: (:pagelist group={$Group} name=-RecentChanges,-GroupFooter fmt=#grouptrail :) ~Steve

Why the %trail% don't work before the pagelist - dynamic trail? MaBen Aug. 28, 2006

perhaps put it as part of the pagelist format template? HansB

Contributors

HansB

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