[Webmacro-devel] Idea for site

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

Just a quickie... with Lane's recent postings and some revelations to me=
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someone who has used WM for a long time but not managed to keep up with =

all the new stuff:

How about we add a page to the site with an "I need to..."=20
problem+solution style. i.e:

Task: I need to set a variable to a large amount of text or HTML
Solution: Use the #setblock directive

Task: I want to have a variable cycle between a set of values, such as=20=

colours so that I can change the colour of table rows inside a loop
Solution: Use the #alternate directive

I know it seems trivial, but a simple list like this with slightly more =

detailed explanations, would go a long way to helping people get the mos=
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from WM. If us lot still don't use every feature to the max you can be=20=

there are plenty of regular users who don't get anywhere near it.

Of course, somebody has to write this. I'm more than happy to but I don'=
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know when I will get the time. I might manage to squeeze it in just so=20=

that I get to learn all the new things myself.

This is very much like a FAQ however, and I suppose these things should =

just be added to the FAQ. If so, it would probably be nice to separate=20=

the various FAQ sections into separate pages so we can get more stuff in=
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there without the page becoming too unwieldy.

A list of questions that highlight the typical usage of existing=20
directives would help in expanding the FAQ in this way. Currently there'=
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not much in there in terms of "tips" for people writing templates.

Marc