X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/a7cb3090902e23e2b0f2371539ade7ec5a4ba01b..3ae8a75101c88712517294b4ebbb3e4bc68d446d:/doc/ikiwiki-calendar.mdwn diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki-calendar.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki-calendar.mdwn index e2cc612f3..fd3244694 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki-calendar.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki-calendar.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ikiwiki-calendar - create calendar archive pages # SYNOPSIS -ikiwiki-calendar [-f] your.setup [pagespec] [year] +ikiwiki-calendar [-f] your.setup [pagespec] [startyear [endyear]] # DESCRIPTION @@ -16,19 +16,21 @@ You must specify the setup file for your wiki. The pages will be created inside its `srcdir`, beneath the `archivebase` directory used by the calendar plugin (default "archives"). -You will probably want to specify a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] -to control which pages are included on the calendars. The -default is all pages. To limit it to only posts in a blog, +To control which pages are included on the calendars, +a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] can be specified. The default is +all pages, or the pages specified by the `comments_pagespec` +setting in the config file. A pagespec can also be specified +on the command line. To limit it to only posts in a blog, use something like "posts/* and !*/Discussion". It defaults to creating calendar pages for the current -year, as well as the previous year, and the next year. -If you specify a year, it will create pages for that year. +year. If you specify a year, it will create pages for that year. +Specify a second year to create pages for a span of years. Existing pages will not be overwritten by this command by default. Use the `-f` switch to force it to overwrite any existing pages. -## CRONTAB +# CRONTAB While this command only needs to be run once a year to update the archive pages for each new year, you are recommended to set up @@ -37,13 +39,20 @@ the calendars to highlight the current day. An example crontab: - 0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup "posts/* and !*/Discussion" + 0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion' # TEMPLATES -This command uses two [[template|wikitemplates]] to generate +This command uses two [[templates]] to generate the pages, `calendarmonth.tmpl` and `calendaryear.tmpl`. +# [[plugins/calendar]] setup option + +Most of the goals of this command can be replaced by setting up +`calendar_autocreate` setup option (of plugin [[plugins/calendar]]), and +running `ikiwiki -setup you.setup`. The only thing that `ikiwiki-calendar` can +do and that `ikiwiki` cannot is forcing page generation (using `-f` switch). + # AUTHOR Joey Hess