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WatchLists

Questions answered by this recipe

How to quickly display a list of user-chosen most recently modified pages?

Description

Track the most recent changes to a list of pages

This can be very easily done with page lists on a WikiTrail.

1. Create a page Profiles/YourName-watchlist with a bulleted list of the pages that you wish to track, and some format for the pagelist. Example:

 
* [[PmWiki.Download]]
* [[Cookbook.Cookbook]]
* [[PITS.00544]]
* etc.

!!Format
[@
[[#simplelist]]
[[{=$FullName}?action=diff | {=$LastModified}]] - \
'''[[{=$FullName}]]''' - [[~{=$LastModifiedBy}]] ({=$LastModifiedSummary})\\
[[#simplelistend]]
@]

2. On your profile page add the pagelist line:

 
!! Watch list
(:pagelist trail=Profiles.YourName-watchlist fmt=Profiles.YourName-watchlist#simplelist order=-time:)

Example (the list and format are on the page Cookbook.WatchLists-watchlist):

!! Watch list
(:pagelist trail=Cookbook.WatchLists-watchlist
fmt=Cookbook.WatchLists-watchlist#simplelist order=-time:)

Clicking on the date opens the page history.

Single page option

On a page where you have a bullet list of wiki pages follow this markup example

!!! [[Cookbook/Watch list(s)]]
(:pagelist trail={$FullName} fmt={$FullName}#watchlist:)

(:if false:)
[[#watchlist]]
(:template defaults order=-time:)
(:template first:)
>>font-size:smaller<<
(:template each:)
-<[[{=$FullName}?action=diff | {=$LastModified}]] -
''[[{=$FullName}|{=$Groupspaced}.{=$Namespaced}]]'' -
[[~{=$LastModifiedBy}]] ({=$LastModifiedSummary}) - {=$:Summary}
(:template last:)
>><<
[[#watchlistend]]
(:ifend:)

Notes

Text in the {$LastModifiedSummary} has control characters removed, and formatting suppressed by default.

Release Notes

If the recipe has multiple releases, then release notes can be placed here. Note that it's often easier for people to work with "release dates" instead of "version numbers".

Comments

See Also

• PmWiki.Notify - Allows a site administrator to configure PmWiki to send email messages whenever pages are changed on the wiki site
• PmWiki.Page Lists - Listing pages by multiple criteria with templated output
• PmWiki.Page Variables - variables that are associated with pages
• PmWiki.Page List Templates - Creating page list format templates

Contributors

• Drafted by Petko
• Single page option by Simon