Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-13 Thread Simon
I support allowing "deep linking", after all if you have visitors why discourage them. Use the sidebar, footer, or header to show a table of contents for the news page, or a last modified time for the news page - with of course a link Simon On 08/10/2008, Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You ca

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-07 Thread Sandy
You can put the news on the login page, and require people to log in before seeing anything. The password can be included on the login page. It would annoy people, but it would work. Sandy Graham Archer wrote: > Hi, > > I put "news" and other useful info on the front (home) page of the wiki. >

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-03 Thread Graham Archer
Hi, Thanks to everyone who gave  their ideas/view on this. This is "food for thought" indeed. I like the idea of check for cookie set etc ... and only if then display News link  ...  rgds Graham Graham Archer wrote: Hi, I put "news" and other useful info on the front (home) page

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-03 Thread Swift, Chris
TECTED] On Behalf Of Eemeli Aro Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:47 PM To: Graham Archer Cc: pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage 2008/10/2 Graham Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a way I can direct users who come to the wiki throu

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-02 Thread Eemeli Aro
2008/10/2 Graham Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a way I can direct users who come to the wiki through the side door > (i.e. a previously bookmarked page) to the wiki homepage and then perhaps > allow them to get to the original target page? It sounds like what you actually want is to commu

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-02 Thread Tegan Dowling
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Christophe David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way I can direct users who come to the wiki through the side door >> (i.e. a previously bookmarked page) to the wiki homepage and then perhaps >> allow them to get to the original target page? >> I'd be intere

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-02 Thread Randy Brown
Actually, what I suggested won't work, since users are bookmarking the URL. You'd have to test the referrer time rather than the referrer page name, and that is more difficult. Randy On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Randy Brown wrote: You might try using the httpvariables recipe: put in the grou

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-02 Thread Christophe David
> Is there a way I can direct users who come to the wiki through the side door > (i.e. a previously bookmarked page) to the wiki homepage and then perhaps > allow them to get to the original target page? > I'd be interested to hear if other wiki admins have solved this situation in > other ways too

Re: [pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-02 Thread Randy Brown
You might try using the httpvariables recipe: put in the group header (or else on each page) markup that says if the "from" variable not equal to 'HomePage' then redirect to HomePage. On the HomePage you would append to all links "from=HomePage". Randy On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Graham Ar

[pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

2008-10-02 Thread Graham Archer
Hi, I put "news" and other useful info on the front (home) page of the wiki. I'm finding that users are bookmarking other often used pages and returning to them directly. As a consequence the user misses the news information on the front page and then bumps into issues that I was trying to ale