It would be nice to be able to place data -- such as hidden directive page text variables -- in a section or chunk of a page that would not appear when viewed using a (modified) editing template.
The idea is to allow novice editors to be spared from having to view the underlying hidden PTV data generated by input forms (or PmForm, FOX, etc) when editing a page, while still storing that data in a portion of the page that is accessible to pagelists. This can avoid the need to create secondary data pages, which can make pagelists more complicated and slower to execute. If the section or chunk were located at the very start (top) or end (bottom) of a page, authors might think of it as virtual page header or page footer and recipes could direct data by posting it to the top or bottom. Examples of code to do this could probably be found in a very small subset of the SectionEdit recipe, which uses pre-chunks and post-chunks and a modified editing template to select or exclude a portion of the page for editing. Right now, I can get SectionEdit to pretty much approximate the behavior I am looking for by turning off the section edit links for headings, placing hidden PTV directives at the top of a page followed by a heading, and modifying the edit links to append the following string: &s=1&auto=y The result is that clicking the edit link opens the page starting with the heading at the top. But then when changes are saved, the browser navigates away from the page based on the string that is posted to the url. Moreover, if there is a second heading on the page, the editing screen does not show the rest of the content. Clearly the SectionEdit code is overkill for the limited functions that I am trying to achieve. Is there already something out there that is a closer fit than SectionEdit? If not, is does the SectionEdit recipe provide the basic model that could be scaled down to its essential core? Any suggestions or comments? (Anyone interested in taking this on?) Pico _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users