Sorry - I guess a simple explanation would have been better :)

I've edited the page above, please re-read it now and let me know if you're still not sure what I mean.

leiger: iftags works inside ListPages as long as you don't use separate="false".

as long as you don't use separate="false"

That's ridiculous. separate="false" should be the ONLY way ListPages works. With separate="false", you can achieve amazing things (as we already do).

Please tell us why this is the case.

Edit: Oh, and if you need a “use case” for amazing things via separate="false", just look at every single application I have made for Wikidot ;-)

leiger: iftags works inside ListPages as long as you don't use separate="false".

Okay, that clears thing up a bit. I've removed separate="false" from the test page and it works fine now.

Two questions:

• Could you explain why iftags it doesn't work when 'separate' is false?
• I thought I had to set 'separate' to false to get tables working… but it looks like I don't. Could you (or James) remind me what the purpose of 'separate="false"' is and when it is has to be used?

If there are times that separate="false" must be used in conjunction with iftags, I'd like to ask that you remove the need to set 'separate' to true to get iftags working, as part of this wish.

Could you (or James) remind me what the purpose of 'separate="true"' is and when it is has to be used?

Purpose: To enclose each page item in a <div> block
When it has to be used: Never. It's flawed.

Ah, sorry. Wrong question. I meant, when is separate="false" used? (will edit my post)

separate="false" must be used if you wish to perform:

• Tables, where each page contains the content for a single row/cell of a larger table
• Conditional content, where you can provide customised text for when no pages match the criteria
• Inline data with the content from each page (for example, “%%title_linked%% \”)
• Advanced Includes
• Anything that may utilise the prependLine/appendLine variables

So simply put:

• When separate="true", the imported page is compiled before it is placed on the main page
• When separate="false", the imported page is compiled after it is placed on the main page

Aha, thanks. This explains a lot. Had to read through it slowly but I'm pretty sure I understand what you're saying. The main thing that is affected by the 'separate' attribute is the scope of variables (where they are relative to)…

Well, I can use iftags in the situations I wanted to now, just by removing the separate="false" syntax (thereby using the default separate="true" instead).

Thanks!

This is the current explanation of "separate":

Separation specifier:

• "yes" means place each page item into a separate container (divs).
• "no" means put all items into one container, so they can become a single list, for example.
• default is "yes".

I believe it should be more clear or at least point what breaks when separate="no".

I think the best way to represent this is to use a table.

Based on what I can understand of your description with how this works, I've created this table — is it correct? If it is I'll gladly add it to the ListPages module documentation :)

Cheers,
Shane

That would be awesome!

Gabrys… I can think of several cool things I could do if I could toggle things based on tags that another page has attached to them … especially once you've added the ability to toggle tags using buttons.

My users could have tag toggle buttons on their profile pages… then I could use the ListUsers module like so (a bit like the 'breadcrumb' setting idea that was being discussed just a little while ago)

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I assume this would work? If yes… I'm just going to sit here drooling with anticipation…! ;-) (Wow, what a geek I am, getting so excited over a potential syntax change that a wiki farm is making… :D)

This would work. Please add a wish :-).

Already did just before I saw this ;-) http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:285

'Twas national Geek day a few days ago =D
_{Too bad you missed it!}

C'mon James, admit it. You're disappointed you missed it as well :P

_{well… yes :(}