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 ## Templating, and other uses
 
 Like you mentioned in [[ftemplate]] IIRC, it'll only work on the same page. If it can be made to work anywhere, or from a specific place in the wiki - configurable, possibly - you'll have something very similar to mediawiki's templates. I can already think of a few uses for this combined with [[template]] ;) . --[[SR|users/simonraven]]
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+> Yes, I mentioned "only current page" in the "LIMITATIONS" section.
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+> What do you think would be a good syntax for querying other pages?
+> It needs to resolve to a single page, though I guess using "bestlink" to find the closest page would mean that one didn't have to spell out the whole page.
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+>> I don't know the internals very well, I think that's how other plugins do it. *goes to check* Usually it's a `foreach` loop, and use a `pagestate{foo}` to check the page's status/state. There's also some stuff like 'pagespec_match_list($params{page}` ... they do slightly different thing depending on need. --[[SR|users/simonraven]]
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+>>> No, I meant what markup I should use; the actual implementation probably wouldn't be too difficult.
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+>>> The current markup is {{$*fieldname*}}; what you're wanting, perhaps it should be represented like {{$*pagename*:*fieldname*}}, or {{$*pagename*::*fieldname*}} or something else...
+>>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
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+> I'm also working on a "report" plugin, which will basically apply a template like [[ftemplate]] does, but to a list of pages given from a pagespec, rather than the current page.
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+> -- [[users/KathrynAndersen]]
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+>> Ooh, sounds nice :) . --[[SR|users/simonraven]]