According to the plugin page, it's possible to provide flags to a pagelist, thereby influencing its output.
One such pair of flags is nofirsth1 to show the page name and firsth1 to show the first headline of the page instead. Furthermore, you set the default flag in the DokuWiki configuration manager.
In my tests, the default is always applied to pagelist tables, I can't seem to override it using flags. So, assuming the pagelist:
<pagelist&firsth1>
- [[ns1:site1]]
- [[ns1:site2]]
- [[ns1:site3]]
</pagelist>
This would still show me only page names if that's the default setting. The flag "firsth1" is ignored, just as the flag "nofirsth1" would be if the default was set the other way round.
Am I using the flags wrong?