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Summary: Track the most recent changes to a list of pages
Version: n/a
Prerequisites: PmWiki 2.2
Status: Stable
Maintainer: Drafted by Petko

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:)

Watch list

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:)

>>comment<<
[[#watchlist]]
(:template defaults order=-time:)
(:template first:)
||width=* style="font-size:smaller;"
(:template each:)
||%pre%[[{=$FullName}?action=diff | {=$LastModified}]]%%
||''[[{=$FullName}|{=$Groupspaced}.{=$Namespaced}]]''
||[[~{=$LastModifiedBy}]] ||{=$LastModifiedSummary} ||{=$:Summary} ||
(:template last:)
[[#watchlistend]]
>><<

Watch list

March 11, 2010, at 02:11 PMPm Wiki.Page Listssimonorder by page variableListing pages by multiple criteria with templated output
March 06, 2010, at 02:14 AMCookbook.CookbookSchreyPde-sandboxList of cookbook recipe categories
February 27, 2010, at 12:41 PMPm Wiki.Page List Templatessimonadd mention of ptv and pvCreating page list format templates
February 26, 2010, at 05:23 PMPm Wiki.DownloadPetkocommentout-pmwikiorgDownload versions of PmWiki
February 11, 2010, at 08:47 AMPm Wiki.Page VariablesPetkoSee also $EnableRelativePageVarsvariables that are associated with pages
January 16, 2010, at 05:15 PMPm Wiki.NotifyPetkofix link for a releaseAllows a site administrator to configure PmWiki to send email messages whenever pages are changed on the wiki site
January 12, 2008, at 06:38 AMPITS.00544Anno Limit the number of displayed diffs at once (was: Caching for history)

(:template defaults order=-time:) (:template first:)

(:template each:)

{=$LastModified}{=$Groupspaced}.{=$Namespaced}?{=$LastModifiedBy}?{=$LastModifiedSummary}{=$:Summary}

(:template last:)

Notes
the comment hides the page list format from being displayed, yet it is used by the pagelist
you can customise the markup between the anchors ([[#...]]) as required

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".

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