How to work with Template:Mindtouch/Control template commands?

[jeesee]

I've been browsing the Mindtouch community and this forum for hours now, but I can't find an answer to the following:

Mindtouch 10 comes with some template files, under the template path: Mindtouch/..
Examples for templates are ListPages, PageDirectory, or TagDirectory.

I tried the command, named in the code, for example:

{{ ListPages ( pages: wiki.getpage("/").subpages, sort: "viewcount", reverse: true, limit: 10 ) }}

But I get an error message:

EOF expected: /content/body/p/span, line 1, column 9

How can I use these templates in my own structure?

[neilw]

You're calling a template using a parameter map, so you need to enclose it using curly braces {} rather than parentheses ():

{{ ListPages { pages: wiki.getpage("/").subpages, sort: "viewcount", reverse: true, limit: 10 } }}

See this knowledge base item for a full explanation.

[neilw]

Aaaaaand one more thing. To call the ListPages template inside Mindtouch/Controls, you actually need to use this form of call:

{{ wiki.template( "Mindtouch/Controls/ListPages", { pages: wiki.getpage("/").subpages, sort: "viewcount", reverse: true, limit: 10 } ) }}

This form is also shown in the referenced KB item, albeit not in the detail it deserves. I'll have to update that one of these days.

[jeesee]

YES! Thanx Neil, that was the trick!
I like the Mindtouch Controls Templates very much, but didn't know how to use them. Now it works!

[jeesee]

One more thing: Why isn't the following syntax displaying subpages from root?

{{ wiki.template( "Mindtouch/Controls/ListPages", { pages: wiki.getpage("/").subpages, sort: "created", reverse: true, limit: 10 } ) }}

[neilw]

Same code works fine on the MCP. Do you have that code inside a DekiScript block, or just entered on a page? If you're surrounded by double-curly braces, then it should just be entered directly on a page. If it's in a DekiScript bock, get rid of the surrounding curly braces. See this if you're not clear. Otherwise, it should work.

Oh, and the ListPages template allows you to simply specify the path of a parent page, and it'll automatically take the subpages of that page. So you could do this:

{{ wiki.template( "Mindtouch/Controls/ListPages", { pages: "/", sort: "created", reverse: true, limit: 10 } ) }}

[jeesee]

The code DO show me a list of pages, but only parent pages are shown.
I need a list on the root wiki page, which shows me the latest pages that are added in the whole wiki.. Is that possible with ListPages?

[neilw]

Ah, the old "newest pages" problem. First off, the "subpages" of a page only refers to the direct children of the page, not all descendants. That's why you weren't getting anything useful.

There is not, at present, any built-in way to get a list of the newest pages. It's easy enough to get a list of most-recently-updated pages, but not most-recently-created pages.

Methods to produce this list via DekiScript get very slow very quickly unless your wiki is very small, so I don't recommend them.

[cz6970]

Hi to all,

Its really fun working with templates. I wonder if there is a way to pass in parameters to a template directly by typing as URL.

example: ..wiki/Titre_de_la_page_&action=edit&template=../A_template + parameters

thanks

[neilw]

There are ways to do pretty much everything, but in this case I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you want to pass parameters to a *script* through the URL, or pre-populate the fields of a page template via the URL? I initially assumed the former, but then I noticed "action=edit" in your sample URL, and I got confused. Please describe exactly what you're trying to do.