WSU Technology Knowledge Base:Adding Dynamic Page Lists to Articles
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The DynamicPageList extension allows authors to use categories to automatically generate dynamic bullet lists of links to other wiki articles. This is an easy way to create a "Related Links" section in a wiki article. The lists are dynamic in that they are created each time an article loads and will automatically update depending on the configuration of this list. DP lists differ from SubPageLists or SP lists in that categories, not sub-directories, are used to populate the lists.
- By default, DP lists select articles for inclusion based on the date and time that they were added to the category. The most recently added articles are selected. Note that this is not necessarily the same as selecting the most recently created or modified articles. This can be changed (e.g., select the most recently created articles) by specifying a different ordermethod.
- Multiple categories can be specified in If multiple categories are specified, DP lists select the articles that were most recently added to the first category.
Example 1 - Listing Five of the Most Recently Created Articles in the
Here is a simple example of a DP list that displays This code...
<DynamicPageList> category = D2L count = 5 order = ascending addfirstcategorydate = true </DynamicPageList>
...generates this list
No pages meet these criteria.