Re: Page list templates

You could add a custom page variable holding the first 4 letters of 
$Name:

In local configuration:

   $FmtPV['$Name04'] = 'substr($name, 0, 4)';

And use that in a template:

(:template first "{=$Name04}":)
'''{=$Name04}:'''

This may work best if the pagelist is ordered by name.

Petko

On 18/03/2025 09:08, Simon wrote:
> Page list templates are a powerful and useful mechanism in PmWiki.
> 
> I've got a use case where I have many page names prefixed by date -
> i.e. "yyyy-mm-dd etc"
> 
> I would like to group then into years, e.g. by something like this
> 
> (:template first {(substr {=$Name} 0 4)}:)
> 
> any suggestions on how I can achieve this.
> As you may surmise the above does not work
> 
> thanks
> 
> Simon
> 
> PS note interestingly I can do this
> 
> (:template defaults year='{(substr {=$Name} 0 4)}':)
> and use {$$year} successfully in the page list template
>