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We use categories, but they are hard work to maintain, and suffer from the bug explained in http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00447. We also use a lot of page lists, and they are what makes the PmWiki world go round IMHO. Also use groups of pages. Simon PS http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PageListMultiTargets is helpful to link too multiple categories On 12 July 2013 08:48, Peter Payzant <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm beginning to understand my problem better after thinking about it for > a bit and doing a lot of reading. There are two large issues, I think: > > 1) organizing the content on our pages so that there is reasonable linking > from page to page within the wiki, and > > 2) taking advantage of built-in PmWiki features to generate lists of pages > like indexes or tables of contents in a book. > > Item 1 is something which I have to face by myself. But, item 2 is where, > with a better understanding of PmWiki, I should be able to accomplish > something useful. > > I'm getting the impression from the documentation that Categories might be > a deprecated concept, in favour of page lists. I certainly don't understand > all of the ins and outs of Categories, but here's my simple view: > > - a page can be a member of more than one category > - You can get a list of all pages in a given category by using a link > ending in Category.xxx (but it seems to be just a list of links to pages in > that category - you don't get to see the summary, for example) > - The category can be used in the "link=" option in a pagelist directive > to help select pages > > Is there anything else useful to be gained by using categories? I'm > beginning to think that I should abandon the small investment that I > already have in them and move over to pagelists instead. But I do > understand that they are to some extent apples and oranges. > > Thanks > > Peter
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