On 2007-02-01 The Editor is rumoured to have said: > > The recipe page also makes the claim: > > > > > > This recipe adds hierarchical groups functionality to > > > your website. The following items are included: group headers, > > > group footers, group sidebars, group attributes, config files, > > > styles sheets. They basically work in the way, and in the > > > order you would expect, including all default settings. > > > > > > I'm not sure that I agree that it works as most people expect. > > > If I'm wrong in this, I'd love to have people re-clarify their > > > expectations and contrast them with what's in the existing > > > PmWiki.HierarchicalGroups pages, because I think it's a feature > > > that many people want. > > What I meant to say in these line is that things like groupheaders, > footers, sidebars, etc work about like you expect. Attributes go > through the normal cascade. Config files work as usual (farm, field, > page, group), css (skin, local, group, page)--with the exception that > the groups in each are hierarchical of course. If one of these things > is not in the order most would expect or like, I will be happy to > change it... > > On this other hand, if this is misleading in that people will read it > and assume it creates Hierarchical Pages as Pm expressed concern about > above, it should be rewritten. Hg does not create hierarchical pages > as most people expect, admittedly. Perhaps someone can suggest a way > to rewrite this paragraph to say more accurately what it was intended > to say without leading people to read more into it than was meant. > Help sincerely welcome! >
I have not followed Hg (mercury) very closely, but would it be more accurate to call it a "page clustering" mechanism? The page clusters reside within a group and they can have sub-clusters. Clustering level is indicated by hyphens in the page names. For example, Animals/Canine-Small-Black indicates an Animals group with a Canine page cluster. Within the Canine page cluster is a Small sub-cluster. Within the Canine-Small sub-cluster is a page about (presumably) black dogs. Does this help clarify things or just muddy the waters?? -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
