Very good tutorial and very useful
I like this tutorial a lot. Just curious, but is there a site for tutorials like these?
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A Simple Plan by ARTiZEN
Sorry posted by Artizen but wrong profile
Hi,
I'm starting to feel really stupid by now but i have tried the above several times and can't get it to work. Every time i click on create new entry i get prompted with a 'this page (New) does noet exist yet'. Also following Artizen's sample has the same result. The new page somehow is not linked to the template with the form definition.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Dirk
You probably create pages using "New page" button, its truncate "_" from "_template" word (look at browser location bar). You need to rename yours pages from "template" to "_template" ( bottom toolbar: + Options -> Rename).
Bartłomiej Bąkowski @ Wikidot Inc.
';.;' TeRq (Write PM)
Thanks, TeRq,
That was it! Works fine now…thanks a million! I just started using Wikidot today so am still finding my way around…
Cheers, Dirk
Did you find my tutorial helpfull?
Should I change something?
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This is a great tutorial and I have it working perfectly. Thank you! Now, if someone wants to delete one of the pages they've added, what's the easiest way to set that up?
Go to the bottom of the page, click Options, then click Delete. You have the option to delete the page completely or rename it to deleted:…
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Thanks Rob. That's the hard way, and people entering form data are lazy. There's no way to create a clickable link in the page list table to delete each entry (as there is to edit each entry)?
One way you could do it uisng the button delete syntax is as follows:
[[module ListPages category="support" perPage="25" order="title" separate="false" prependLine="||~ Title ||~ Updated ||~ Delete||" appendLine="||||||||~ ||"]]
|| %%title_linked%% || %%updated_at|%e %B %Y%% || [[button delete]] ||
[[/module]]A working version of this is at http://www.strathviewconsultants.co.uk/support:delete although I have set the permissions so you can not actually delete my pages!
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Rob, you're a legend!
If the delete button actually works in the ListPages results as it should (deletes the current result, rather than the page with the LP module on it) - then you just solved a long standing issue I've had with my "no comment" page-based forum.
Thanks!
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Ah…..rats! As you hinted, it deletes the page with the LP on, not the current result line. I'll have a re-think.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
If all the pages have a tag that switches visibility on or off.OR the pages that don't need to be seen get a tag "_hide" for example… an automated taggingsystem should do the trick. SO the "delete-button" triggers an action to change the tags of the targetted page, and it adds for example "_hide" to the tags. In the Listpages that creates your table… you need a tag-selector or you need to expand it with tags="-_hide"…
I'll see if I can make a CSI for this.
A - S I M P L E - P L A N by ARTiZEN a startingpoint for simple wikidot solutions.
@Leiger…
if you would set the tag to "_delete-by-cron" you could get a cron-script running on your server that sweeps those pages by renaming them to the delete-category.
I asked for a delete-option for the API but that wish was rejected.
A - S I M P L E - P L A N by ARTiZEN a startingpoint for simple wikidot solutions.
This CSI (cross side include) works and makes it possible to add a link to your table or inside your listpages-module that generates your list, that will remove that line from the list or table. The corresponding page is not deleted however but will not be visible in this list.
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