-- Marcelo
-> See [[todo/discussion_page_as_blog]] for some of my own thoughts on this
+> See [[plugins/comments]]
> --[[Joey]]
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I would be especially interested in a list of variables which can be used in such a template.
-I have a page template with some structured information as parameters. For example `location="nowhere"` and `price="20"`. Is there a possibility to extract those information, i. e. access the parameters, to compose the item for the inline directive from these information? For example the line »Go to nowhere for 20 bugs.« is shown inlined.
+> I try to keep ikiwiki's templates self-documenting, so if you take
+> a look at a template used by inline, such as the default `/usr/share/ikiwiki/template/inlinepage.tmpl`,
+> you can see all or nearly all the template variables in use in it.
+
+I have a page template with some structured information as parameters. For
+example `location="nowhere"` and `price="20"`. Is there a possibility to
+extract those information, i. e. access the parameters, to compose the item
+for the inline directive from these information? For example the line »Go
+to nowhere for 20 bugs.« is shown inlined.
--[[PaulePanter]]
+
+> Let's not confuse the template directive with the templates used by inline.
+> When a page is inlined, any template directives in it are first expanded,
+> using the user-defined templates for that. Then, the inline directive's
+> template is used to insert it into the inlining page.
+>
+> So no, you can't reference template directive parameters inside inline's
+> template, because it's already expanded at that point. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thank you for the explanation. Can you think of another way to accomplish
+>> my goals?
+>>
+>> Right now, I only see the option to edit the title with the
+>> `[[/ikiwiki/directive/meta]]` directive and the field `title`.
+>>
+>> How could a solution look like?
+>>
+>> 1. The possibility to add custom fields to the `meta` directive.
+>> 1. The possibility to specify in a page, how the page should be displayed
+>> when used by inlined. That could be done by a new directive `cinlined`
+>> (for »custom inlined«) which is chosen by the `inline` directive to
+>> display if told to do so.
+>>
+>> [[!cinlined text="""Text which can also use Parameter, bla blubb …"""]]
+>> --[[PaulePanter]]
+>>> You can make the body of a page change depending on whether it's being
+>>> inlined, with the [[ikiwiki/directive/if]] directive from the
+>>> [[plugins/conditional]] plugin:
+>>>
+>>> \[[!if test="inlined()"
+>>> then="""[[!template id=productsummary
+>>> location="Warehouse 23" price=20
+>>> ]]"""
+>>> else="""[[!template id=productdetail
+>>> location="Warehouse 23" price=20
+>>> description="Every home should have one"
+>>> ]]"""
+>>> ]]
+>>>
+>>> Perhaps that does some of what you want?
+>>>
+>>> If you want to go beyond that, my inclination would be to write
+>>> a simple plugin to deal with whatever it is you want to do (bug
+>>> metadata or product metadata or whatever) rather than prematurely
+>>> generalizing. --[[smcv]]
+
+## meta parameters are not enough
+
+I think I have the same problem as Paule, as I want extra arbitary parameters in my template.
+
+This is what I am doing currently, which makes my skin crawl. In `wgts/foo.mdwn`
+I have resorted to using AUTHORURL as the location of this widgets icon:
+
+ [[!meta authorurl="/ico/aHR0cDovL2JvbmRpLm9tdHAub3JnL3dpZGdldHMvYmF0dGVyeQ==.png" ]]
+
+In templates I have a file called `wgtlist.tmpl`:
+
+ <div class="widget">
+ <TMPL_IF NAME="AUTHORURL">
+ <img src="<TMPL_VAR AUTHORURL>" />
+ </TMPL_IF>
+ <TMPL_IF NAME="PERMALINK">
+ <a href="<TMPL_VAR PERMALINK>"><TMPL_VAR TITLE></a><br />
+ <TMPL_ELSE>
+ <a href="<TMPL_VAR PAGEURL>"><TMPL_VAR TITLE></a><br />
+ </TMPL_IF>
+ Posted <TMPL_VAR CTIME>
+ </div>
+
+My index page has:
+
+ [[!inline pages="./wgts/*" show=5 feeds=no actions=no rootpage="wgts" archive="yes" template=wgtlist]]
+
+Else can you please suggest a smarter way of getting certain data out from pages for a inline index?
+
+--[[hendry]]