Talk:Songs

Known Issues

Some dates claim to have a recording of a particular track, although they actually do not

For dates with partial recordings, all tracks in the setlist are erroneously claimed to have recordings from that date. The lists are generated by the DynamicPageList extension's linksto function, which finds what links to a song's page from any other pages - since there is no method to differentiate between the links in the Setlist section and the Track list sections, the issue occurs. I have spent many hours attempting to rectify this without an acceptable solution. I feel the issue is minor, although I would still appreciate a fix if somebody might have one.

For an example of this issue, view the following pages:

Never Let Me Down Again

2001-06-30 First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

In the Dates with available recordings of Never Let Me Down Again section, 2001-06-30 First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA is listed although the recording available does not actually contain the track Never Let Me Down Again. As the link to Never Let Me Down Again is present anywhere on the page, the DPL list adds the date to the list despite it being in the Setlist section and not the Track list section where links should only be obtained from.

The closest solution I have reached is a DPL query which includes "Track list" sections with a given track name inside the section. However, this results in the entire section being included in the list, which is undesirable for bandwidth and performance reasons, plus it can make the link quite lengthy depending on the number of recordings available of that track. There is a documented method to include only links to the sections, but then no results are returned because the parser does not find the given track name within the link by itself. It's something of a catch-22, if you will.