00779: (:title
directives should not have effect in (:include:) included pages:)
$EnablePageTitlePriority
for 2.2.9Description: Announced as being fixed in 2.1.6 (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/26922/match=include+title+directives+don+t+mix) but problem still persists.
- Was called 'not a bug' in PITS.00266 JamesM
- Consider this use case FOR blocking included title directives.
- A page called 'mynavigator' with a list of pages and a :Title The Big Navigator: directive.
- An :include mynavigator: on a number of pages that are using the navigator
- Now all pages would have the same title, The Big Navigator, for any tools that respect thier renamed title when listing them!
- In fact, much as you use $= $* and $ to give context to variables, some directives may need to have specific contexts
Suggestion:
- So perhaps if a final page has two consecutive titles, the second one is being used instead of the first. Perhaps this could be reversed and even a variable added to specify whether the first or last metadata have priority on a page.
Solution by using recipe TitleMarkup as an alternative title markup which will display first title. HansB April 03, 2008, at 10:32 AM
FWIW, I use and need to set the title from an included page. I am using every day wikipages in a log-like configuration where the page name is 20090203 and the GroupFooter contains (:title [{*$:myvar} - {*$:myvar2}] {(ftime {*$Name} "%A %d %B")} :)
. This displays as title two PageTextVariables from the page and the date, rendered as "Tuesday 03 February" in a local language.
You can completely disable title directives in included pages by adding to config.php such a code:$QualifyPatterns
['/\\(:title\\s(.*?):\\)/i'] = '';
Do we need to add something to the core, or will an update of the documentation be enough? --Petko February 02, 2009, at 11:16 PM
Intuitively for beginner & intermediate users they will expect the first title directive to "win". If an administrator knows he/she has need for the (non-intuitive) last-title-directive-wins behavior then that should be something explicitly set to vary from the default. Administrators know how to fix configuration variables and have access to do so; therefore a change in core would result in the most logical default configuration. My vote is to change core. Just my $0.02... (An alternative might be to have some sort of (:title-override This Title Wins:)
. Then you can explicitly choose to have an override occur from an include without making a configuration change. Not sure if that's good or not...) Peter Bowers February 03, 2009, at 12:09 AM
This PITS entry is about title directives in included pages, and not about if the first or last title "wins". The code I suggested fixes just that. --Petko February 03, 2009, at 01:06 AM