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diff --git a/doc/forum/report_pagination.mdwn b/doc/forum/report_pagination.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..03a77b16d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/report_pagination.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +I am thinking of adding pagination to the [[plugins/contrib/report]] plugin, but I'm not sure which is the best approach to take. (By "pagination" I mean breaking up a report into multiple pages with N entries per page.) + +Approaches: + +1. generate additional HTML files on the fly which are placed in the sub-directory for the page the report is on. These are not "pages", they are not under revision control, they aren't in the %pagesources hash etc. But using the `will_render` mechanism assures that they will be removed when they are no longer needed. + +2. create new pages which each have a report directive which shows a subset of the full result; add them to revision control, treat them as full pages. Problems with this are: (a) trying to figure out when to create these new pages and when not to, (b) whether or not these pages can be deleted automatically. + +3. some other approach I haven't thought of. + +I'm afraid that whatever approach I take, it will end up being a kludge. + +> Well, it should be perfectly fine, and non-kludgy for a single page to +> generate multiple html files. Just make sure that html files have names +> that won't conflict with the html files generated by some other page. +> +> Of course the caveat is that since such files are not pages, you won't +> be able to use wikilinks to link directly to them, etc. --[[Joey]] |