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[[!template id=plugin name=trail author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]
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[[!tag type/chrome]]
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This plugin provides the [[ikiwiki/directive/trailoptions]],
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[[ikiwiki/directive/traillink]], [[ikiwiki/directive/trailitem]],
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and [[ikiwiki/directive/trailitems]] [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]].
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It's sometimes useful to have "trails" of pages in a wiki where each
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page links to the next and/or previous page. For instance, you could use
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this for a guided tour, sequence of chapters, or sequence of blog posts.
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In this plugin, a trail is represented by a page, and the pages in the
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trail are indicated by specially marked links within that page, or by
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including groups of pages with a [[ikiwiki/directive]].
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If using the default `page.tmpl`, each page automatically displays the
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trails that it's a member of (if any), with links to the trail and to
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the next and previous members. HTML `<link>` tags with the `prev`,
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`next` and `up` relations are also generated.
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The [[ikiwiki/directive/trailoptions]] directive sets options for the
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entire trail.
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Pages can be included in a trail in various ways:
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* The [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] directive with `trail="yes"` sets up an
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[[inline]], and at the same time adds the matching pages (from `pages` or
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`pagenames`) to the trail. One use is to navigate through all posts in
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a blog:
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\[[!inline pages="page(./posts/*) and !*/Discussion" archive=yes
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feedshow=10 quick=yes trail=yes]]
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This only works if the trail and [[!iki plugins/inline desc=inline]]
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plugins are both enabled.
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* The [[ikiwiki/directive/trailitems]] directive has optional `pages` and
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`pagenames` options which behave the same as in [[inline]], but don't
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produce any output in the page, so you can have trails that don't list
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all their pages.
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* The [[ikiwiki/directive/traillink]] directive makes a visible link
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and also adds the linked page to the trail. This will typically be
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used in a bullet list, but could also be in paragraph text:
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* [[!traillink Introduction]]
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* [[!traillink "Chapter 1"]]
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* [[!traillink Chapter_2]]
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* [[!traillink Appendix_A]]
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or
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To use this software you must \[[!traillink install]] it,
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\[[!traillink configuration text="configure it"]],
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and finally \[[!traillink running|run_it]].
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This also counts as a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] for things like the `link()`
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[[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] item.
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* The [[ikiwiki/directive/trailitem]] directive adds a page to the trail
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like `traillink`, but produces an invisible link, rather like `\[[!tag]]`:
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To use this software you must \[[!traillink install]] it,
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\[[!trailitem installing_from_packages]]
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\[[!trailitem installing_from_source]]
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\[[!traillink configuration text="configure it"]],
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and finally \[[!traillink running|run_it]].
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\[[!trailitem troubleshooting]]
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Like `\[[!tag]]`, this still counts as a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] even though
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there's no visible link.
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You can mix several of these directives in one page. The resulting
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trail will contain all of the pages matched by any of the directives,
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in the same order that the directives appear (unless you use the `sort` or
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`reverse` options on `\[[!trailoptions]]`).
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