> Producing the individual pages manually using the ordinary pmwiki editor > was fine when there were only two or three a week. However, we're going > to need lots more, and it would be useful to use an input form to write > out the individual pages. > > Is there a way in PmWiki of having a form that collects values of > variables and then writes them out, not to an email, but to a new wiki > page whose name is constructed from variables in the form?
I'll probably later move this solution to Cookbook/WikiShExamples, but for now there is a working prototype (purely test data - feel free to punch it around) at http://www.qdk.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=WikiShForms.2008-08-21-something (I don't usually leave them as "live" examples -- I thought this one was particularly cute as an example of a very simple flat-file (non-relational) database that could be really functional and is very extensible in terms of validations and etc...) >From there you can edit and save the PTV values or create new pages using the supplied field/button. Each page kinda-sorta contains its own "make-me-into-a-form" code so when you view the page it will view it in a user-friendly form interface even though the page itself is basically just data with a 1-line WikiSh function call. You can still go to action=edit or action=source to see the (now hidden) PTVs that it's based off of. I followed your PTV names and etc just for consistency, but I only did a subset of them. Adding the rest is just a typing exercise... If you are looking at the solution you will also be interested in these pages: * WikiShForms.Template - the content that is copied into place when a new page is created (all it does is (:include PageContent:) * WikiShForms.PageContent - the actual content of the page that gets pulled in -- just a function call now, but you could add something else on this page and all "data" pages would automatically "be updated" with the "new look" * WikiSh.WikiShForms-GroupRC - the location of the function definition (active for this group but nowhere else) There's all kinds of capabilities for validating the data in the form as well. I haven't done anything like that because I don't know what your requirements are... I didn't do anything with the pagelist reports because it seemed like you already had that going well and just needed the form solution, right? Hope that helps! -Peter PS Whether you use this solution or not, I strongly recommend taking a look at the use of (:include {$Group}.PageContent:) to bring in your view-table from one master copy rather than having it hard-coded on each individual page. (Maybe you're already doing this and just didn't mention it in your email - if so, ignore this paragraph.) Otherwise at some inevitable point in the future someone is going to have the unenviable task of going through and hand-editing a bunch of pages in order to allow for an additional field or a change in a label or something like that... Just a tho't. _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
