I've been working on a similar form-based structured wiki using Fox forms and PTVs. What I like about that approach is it allows separation of data and presentation.
A couple of problems to be aware of: Fox's preview feature doesn't show the changes to the PTVs, so that feature is unusable. (The released PmWiki doesn't either, but that's easily fixed with a patch.) Also, links do still require some markup. Good luck, Randy On Jul 2, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Karl Schilke wrote: > Hi, I have set up a PmWiki instance for a group of engineers working > on a research and development project. They have collected ~100 papers > that they would like to index on a page. They want a structured system > where each paper is in its own "section", with a standard format > consisting of: > > Article title (italics) -> PDF of the paper > Author list > Journal citation / DOI:xxx or URL > Description or abstract (free-text notes or a copy of the abstract) > > I handled this for my personal use by simply writing the markup, but > they are, ah, somewhat less than enthusastic about copying and > modifying a bunch of markup text. I was thinking that this would be a > good use for page includes and forms. > > I'm envisioning a main page (Papers.Main) that (:include:)'s a series > of short pages (e.g. Papers.Johnson2002) to create the master index. > Each subpage would have the above text, ideally marked up and viewable > as a separate entity. A page template would be used to pre-populate > the markup for pages upon creation. > > It seems to me that a form-based approach would be ideal. I'm thinking > of a "Add paper" link from the main page that creates each of the > sub-pages based on four textboxes and a file upload for the PDF > version. I haven't had an opportunity to explore the PmForm > extensions. Is this the right tool for the job? > > Would a PTV approach make sense here? Does anyone know of a similar > system that I could look at as a starting point for my application? > I'd be happy to "donate" a version as an example for pmwiki.org, once > I get it working. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Karl Schilke, Oregon State University. > > -- > One of the cruel facts of life is that nearly 15% of it occurs on a > Monday. > > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
