Extension:TemplateFormEditor/Example

Example

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Defining a Template which uses the Form-Editor

First condition: your template must contain at least one parameter. The parameter can be named or unnamed.

Second condition: your template must define the type of its parameters

Here is a simple example: The sourcecode of the page "Template:Bugreport"

= Introduction =
 
This template is used as a headline for a bug report
 
= The Template itself =
<onlyinclude>
= Bugreport=
 
{|
|-
!Operating System
|{{{Operating System}}}
|-
!Application
|{{{Application}}}
! Version
|{{{Version}}}
|-
!Area
|{{{Area}}}
|}
 
== The bug can be reproduces as follows ==
{{{1}}}
</onlyinclude>
 
= Type Definiton =
<typedefinition>
 * Operating System : oneof (Windows NT,Windows XP, WindowsVista,
                             Linux 2.4.x,Linux 2.6.x, FreeBSD, MacOS X) // choose one! 
 * Application : - // Official Name.
 * Area : someof ( Documentation, GUI, Database, other)
 * 1 : text (60,10) "can be reproduces as follows:"
</typedefinition>

Using a Template

After you have created the template shown above you can use it:

• Create a new article e.g. "Bugreport 0815"

  the default editor appears.

• write "{{Bugreport}}" into the textbox and push the button "show preview"

  Now the form-editor is shown.         -       the following screenshot shows this example on a german wiki

screenshot of the form generated by this extension

Up to now it only makes sense to use the Form-Editor provided by this extension with articles that only contain one template

Combinations with other extensions

Defining parameter types in the template definition page has two disadvantage:

• e.g. defining a "oneof" or "someof" element with 10 elements you can not define which of these elements are shown at which page
• when new options are needed you need to edit the definition page.

Using the Extension:RegexParserFunctions and Extension:DynamicPageList inside the type definition you can define a dynamically calculated set of allowed values:

E.g. the following definition defines that allowed values are the Titles of all Pages of category "MyCategory"

*page:someof (
 {{#regex:{{#regex:{{#dpl:category=MyCategory|notcategory=Template|mode=inline|format=,%TITLE%# ,,}}|%#$%|}}|%#%|,}}
 ) "A Page" // All currently existing pages of category MyCategory are listed.

The following defines that parameter a and b are only available on a pages containing "AB Page" in its page name:

* parameter:oneof ( {{#regex:{{#regex:{{#regex:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|%^.*AB Page.*$%|#}}|%[^#]%|}}|%#%|a,b,}} c , d )