+[[!template id=plugin name=report author="[[rubykat]]"]]
+[[!tag type/meta type/format]]
+[[!toc]]
+## NAME
+
+IkiWiki::Plugin::report - Produce templated reports from page field data.
+
+## SYNOPSIS
+
+ # activate the plugin
+ add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff report ....}],
+
+ \[[!report template="blog_summary"
+ pages="blog/*"
+ sort="mtime"]]
+
+## DESCRIPTION
+
+This plugin provides the **report** directive. This enables one to report on
+the structured data ("field" values) of multiple pages; the output is formatted
+via a template. This depends on the "field" plugin.
+
+The pages to report on are selected by a PageSpec given by the "pages"
+parameter. The template is given by the "template" parameter.
+The template expects the data from a single page; it is applied
+to each matching page separately, one after the other.
+
+Additional parameters can be used to fill out the template, in
+addition to the "field" values. Passed-in values override the
+"field" values.
+
+There are two places where template files can live. One, as with the
+[[plugins/template]] plugin, is in the /templates directory on the wiki. These
+templates are wiki pages, and can be edited from the web like other wiki
+pages.
+
+The second place where template files can live is in the global
+templates directory (the same place where the page.tmpl template lives).
+This is a useful place to put template files if you want to prevent
+them being edited from the web, and you don't want to have to make
+them work as wiki pages.
+
+## OPTIONS
+
+**template**: The template to use for the report.
+
+**pages**: A PageSpec to determine the pages to report on.
+
+**sort**: How the matching pages should be sorted. Sorting criteria are separated by spaces.
+
+The possible values for sorting are:
+
+* **page**: Sort by the full page ID.
+* **pagename**: Sort by the base page name.
+* **pagename_natural**: Sort by the base page name, using Sort::Naturally if it is installed.
+* **mtime**: Sort by the page modification time.
+* **age**: Sort by the page creation time, newest first.
+
+Any other value is taken to be a field name to sort by.
+If a sort value begins with a minus (-) then the order for that field is reversed.
+
+### Headers
+
+An additional option is the "headers" option. This is a space-separated
+list of field names which are to be used as headers in the report. This
+is a way of getting around one of the limitations of HTML::Template, that
+is, not being able to do tests such as
+"if this-header is not equal to previous-header".
+
+Instead, that logic is performed inside the plugin. The template is
+given parameters "HEADER1", "HEADER2" and so on, for each header.
+If the value of a header field is the same as the previous value,
+then HEADER**N** is set to be empty, but if the value of the header
+field is new, then HEADER**N** is given that value.
+
+#### Example
+
+Suppose you're writing a blog in which you record "moods", and you
+want to display your blog posts by mood.
+
+ \[[!report template="mood_summary"
+ pages="blog/*"
+ sort="Mood Date title"
+ headers="Mood"]]
+
+The "mood_summary" template might be like this:
+
+ <TMPL_IF NAME="HEADER1">
+ ## <TMPL_VAR NAME="HEADER1">
+ </TMPL_IF>
+ ### <TMPL_VAR NAME="TITLE">
+ (<TMPL_VAR NAME="DATE">) \[[<TMPL_VAR NAME="PAGE"]]
+ <TMPL_VAR NAME="DESCRIPTION">
+
+### Advanced Options
+
+The following options are used to improve efficiency when dealing
+with large numbers of pages; most people probably won't need them.
+
+**trail**:
+
+A page or pages to use as a "trail" page. When a trail page is used,
+the matching pages are limited to (a subset of) the pages which that
+page links to; the "pages" pagespec in this case, rather than selecting
+pages from the entire wiki, will select pages from within the set of pages
+given by the trail page.
+
+**doscan**:
+
+Whether this report should be called in "scan" mode; if it is, then
+the pages which match the pagespec are added to the list of links from
+this page. This can be used by *another* report by setting this
+page to be a "trail" page in *that* report.
+It is not possible to use "trail" and "doscan" at the same time.
+By default, "doscan" is false.
+
+## TEMPLATE PARAMETERS
+
+The templates are in HTML::Template format, just as [[plugins/template]] and
+[[ftemplate]] are. The parameters passed in to the template are as follows:
+
+***fields***:
+
+The structured data from the current matching page. This includes
+"title" and "description" if they are defined.
+
+***common values***:
+
+Values known for all pages: "page", "destpage". Also "basename" (the base name of the page).
+
+***passed-in values***:
+
+Any additional parameters to the report directive are passed to the
+template; a parameter will override the matching "field" value.
+For example, if you have a "Mood" field, and you pass Mood="bad" to
+the report, then that will be the Mood which is given for the whole
+report.
+
+Generally this is useful if one wishes to make a more generic
+template and hide or show portions of it depending on what
+values are passed in the report directive call.
+
+For example, one could have a "hide_mood" parameter which would hide
+the "Mood" section of your template when it is true, which one could
+use when the Mood is one of the headers.
+
+***headers***:
+
+See the section on Headers.
+
+***first and last***:
+
+If this is the first page-record in the report, then "first" is true.
+If this is the last page-record in the report, then "last" is true.
+
+## PREREQUISITES
+
+ IkiWiki
+ IkiWiki::Plugin::field
+ HTML::Template
+ Encode
+
+## DOWNLOAD
+
+* browse at GitHub: <http://github.com/rubykat/ikiplugins/blob/master/IkiWiki/Plugin/report.pm>
+* git repo at git://github.com/rubykat/ikiplugins.git
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