So, the last time I tried doing something like this, I ended up have to render the constructed page before the index would update. I don't recall why that was, but perhaps you might give it a go and see if that helps? I did it with curl in a shell script, you should be able to do that from Perl as well, maybe using lwp?
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Peter Payzant <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, thanks for your reply. > > As an experiment, I simply used the Linux "touch" command on both > wiki.d/.lastmod and my synthetic wiki page. I'm afraid that didn't work - > the category page still doesn't see the synthetic page. > > Any other thoughts? > > Peter > > > > On 2013-10-28 7:34 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:06:29PM -0300, Peter Payzant wrote: >> >>> I'm creating one page with a daily Perl program, and in general >>> everything works as expected. However, I can't get this page to show >>> up in a category list. >>> [...] >>> However, this page does not appear on the page >>> Category.BoardDocuments. Dozens of other pages created the normal >>> way, by editing in PmWiki, do appear in the category list. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >> The indexes aren't being notified that there's a new page that might >> need scanning. >> >> Simply have your Perl script also touch/update the .lastmod file in >> wiki.d/, and the categories should start seeing your automatically >> generated page(s). >> >> In Perl the following will work to update the timestamp of .lastmod: >> >> open(my $fh, ">", "wiki.d/.lastmod"); >> close($fh); >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Pm >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/**mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users<http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users> >
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