Extension talk:Page Schemas

[Download link does not work]
Hi there, I would love to download the extension Page Schemas, but have unfortunately not been able to. I went onto the Extesion:PageShemas, under “Code and download” area where it says: “You can download the Page Schemas code, in .tgz format, here.” The download link “here” was as follows: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/PageSchemas.git;a=snapshot;h=4dd93fe74c8c39b6438b92f4927cfa71ca3b901a;sf=tgz Once I am clicking on the above link I am getting the following error message: “Unable to download gitweb from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Unable to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.” Would anybody please be able to help? Many thanks Pan


 * The link works for me. Could you try again? Gerrit may have been unavailable for a short time. Instead of clicking, you could also try "right-click / save as". Cavila MW 1.19.2, MySQL 5.1.66, Php 5.3.3-7, SMW 1.8, SF 1.5.1 11:21, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello Cavilla, I've just tried again and got the same error message. However, completely by chance I found the following link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Autoincrement and by selecting the extension I wanted it did allow me to download the PageSchemas files. Thanks for your reply. Pan

Issue with side infobox
Hi, I am having an odd error. The infobox came out as expected when I was using the other way to use a form (manually create property, create template, create form). When I deleted the template/form and tried to re-make the exact same thing in page schemas, i get a jumpled mess peppered with red links that say "Template:!" where the infobox should be.

Thanks so much for any help,

Matt


 * You should create the page at "Template:!", with just a single character as the contents: "|". I think the latest version of Semantic Forms takes care of creating that page automatically. Yaron Koren (talk) 19:23, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Perfect, thank you. I did download the semantic bundle maybe 2 days ago which had semantic forms. Wondering if that doesnt have the latest version and perhaps I should go update it....Matt

Two minor questions on page schemas (image upload, edit function)
Question 1: I am having trouble creating a form input field in a side infobox template of form created in page schemas - what I want is to have the user hit an upload button, they upload an image from their desktop, and then the picture shows (not the filename eg xyz.png). I did read in "Working with Mediawiki" by Yaron Koren about uploading files - where he says "This is done simply by adding the parameter "uploadable" to that field's declaration in the form definition (although this was for the shows filename xyz.png example) and I was unsure where exactly I put "uploadable" - any guidance here would be much appreciated.

Question 2: In Page Schemas if you select the output to be "sections" - when the user is reading the page each section has an "edit" hyperlink above it. unfortunately this takes you to editing the source code, not the form. Is it possible to either change this to point to the form, or remove it entirely? Thanks for any advice - I believe these answers will help the average person use page schemas more! --Matt


 * Hi - (1) you should add it in the form input's "parameter names and their values..." field. (2) you should add to the template. That's really a bug in the software - that tag should get added to the template directly. Yaron Koren (talk) 16:21, 31 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yaron, in response to (1), within the edit schema function, I added to the "additional XML field" of each field in the template that uses sections.  I also tried to manually add it to the code by hitting edit on the category page rather than edit schema, in many different places.....the latest one I pasted below just to see if you can let me know if I am doing something wrong:







NOEDITSECTION (I took out the __  __ on this posting)

Course Overview


 * All my tries yielded nothing. I can't help but wonder if perhaps I have a setting either wrong, or not in, localsettings.php.  especially since it looks like the  worked on this page....


 * As for item (2) about uploading docs, In the "Enter parameter names and their values as key=value pairs, separated by commas (if a value contains a comma, replace it with "\,"). For example: size=20, mandatory" field of "Form Input" in the Edit Schema section, I added "uploadable" (without " ") - when I refresh and go to my page, oddly it displays the following in my field on the Read tab of the page using the schema: "File:Mail-envelope.png" - I did not type or put that in. The code from the edit tab of the Category page for this, as created by edit schema, looks like this (BTW, i tried not to but maybe i killed the edit tabs in this page....can delete after.

  Score Card  Text   text <Parameter name="uploadable"/> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field>
 * Thanks again for the time you have spent on this subject, and all others, Matt


 * For (2) (which you called (1)), I don't think there's way to add it via Page Schemas at all - which is unfortunate. For (1) - that's very strange; I can't replicate that strange behavior. What version of MediaWiki are you using? Yaron Koren (talk) 13:48, 1 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Version MediaWiki 	1.21.1


 * PHP 	5.3.24 (cgi-fcgi)


 * MySQL 	5.0.96-log


 * Page Schemas (Version 0.3.1)


 * http://coursecaddy.org/index.php?title=Special:Version


 * Just to summarize since I screwed up the numbering (2 threads next time) - no way to ad NOEDITPAGES on a massive scale through page schemas, you have to do it page by page manually. for "uploadable," the way I have it should work, but something odd is going on - I re-did it this morning and instead of insterting envelope.png, its just a blank box I can type in, you can see that here: http://coursecaddy.org/index.php?title=Rustic_Canyon - Matt


 * It looks like "uploadable=", instead of "uploadable", is being added to the form, which causes the problem. This may have been fixed in the most recent SF version; I'm not sure. Yaron Koren (talk) 15:38, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! That was an easy fix.....and easy to implement on a mass scale but simply upating the form: after generating pages. Folow up question, once you upload a file through semantic forms, it loads the file into the file namespace and images directory, which is great.  How would you (if its possible) have it automatically display the image on the page in which you uploaded, after you upload it through semantic forms?  Again, trying to make this user friendly so they dont have to then type the [{FILE:...) to display.  thx as always, matt


 * The string "File:" needs to be added to the template, right before the variable that holds the file name, like " File: ". Again, that's a bug in Semantic Forms - it might have been fixed in the most recent version, but I'm less sure about this one. Yaron Koren (talk) 14:51, 2 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Worked perfectly, thanks. BTW I did update page schemas and semantic forms, both were a rev behind.  The uploadable bug is still there, and this one. - Matt

Output Format:Sections
I wonder if its a bug or I am doing something wrong. In using the Output Format:Sections functionality of page schemas, an odd thing happens with the template output. A " | " is added to the beginning of each section in the actual page that executes the templates through forms. I tinkered around with removing | from various parts of the template, with no luck. Any idea? example of output below:

Course Overview


 * Rustic Canyon is a tribute to the....


 * No idea. Can you link to the template? Yaron Koren (talk) 12:49, 5 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure, check out how the page looks here (see the " | " at the beginning of each section?) http://coursecaddy.org/index.php?title=Rustic_Canyon. The template is here: http://coursecaddy.org/index.php?title=Template:Course_Body & http://coursecaddy.org/index.php?title=Template:Yardage_Book.


 * I am also having some trouble with the field descriptions & display labels in the Yardage Book section of the form itself, and I don't know if perhaps it's related to the above. Once we get root cause on the above i'll decide if i should start another thread....Thanks,  Matt


 * Those extra pipes are coming from the "Course Body" template. Yaron Koren (talk) 15:58, 6 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I saw that too. When i change the output format in Page schemas to plain text and remove them from the template manually (i'm still wondering why Page Schemas adds them?) it looks great.  Perhaps I will just revert back to plain text.  When I try to remove them when the page schemas output is "sections" - it goes haywire.


 * Sorry, I didn't understand. Yaron Koren (talk) 11:35, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Create Schema page - Does not initialize
After successfully installing this plugin, I get the expected "Create Schema" on my category pages; however, these pages fail to initialize, and I am not able to get back any debug info. Any ideas? Oh, and this is not skin related. ~z929669 Talk 20:29, 29 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Do you mean that you're seeing blank pages? And if so, could this help to diagnose the issue? Yaron Koren (talk) 17:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Here is what PHP is reporting:


 * ... and the code snippet (270 is last line):


 * ~z929669 Ixian_Insignia_SM.png Talk 05:27, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * What versions of Semantic Forms and Page Schemas are you using? Yaron Koren (talk) 12:12, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I am using 2.5.3 and 0.4-alpha, respectively. ~z929669 Ixian_Insignia_SM.png Talk 14:58, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Ah, okay. It looks like this issue has already been fixed in the version of SF on Git - I guess it was fixed recently. You can either update your code via Git, if you have that, or just wait until the next version of SF is released, which I think will be this week or next. Yaron Koren (talk) 19:54, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Wonderful, thanks! ~z929669 Ixian_Insignia_SM.png Talk 21:46, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Form to PageSchema conversion
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19186528/page-schema-addition-for-converting-forms-to-schema


 * That's great! I just added that URL to the list of PS importing tools. Yaron Koren (talk) 12:32, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Please add your PS importing tools link as an answer to the stackoverflow question. This cross-linking might be helpful. Also you are kindly invited for personal communication via my webpage (see my user's profile on Stackoverflow). Unfortunately I can not come to Berlin next week since the event is sold out.


 * Unfortunately, I don't have a Stack Overflow account. Yeah, it's crazy how much interest there was in this SMWCon - hopefully we'll get to meet at a future event. Yaron Koren (talk) 02:54, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Generate pages doesn't work
MW 1.22.2 PHP 5.3.28 SMW 1.9.1 Page Schemas 0.4.1 7d4e35e 7 Feb 2014

I've designed a schema, but the Generate Pages does nothing.
 * I've read everything available on the extension and talk pages.
 * I've watched the tutorial video
 * I've executed runJobs.php manually and via cron.
 * I've queried the 'job' table (empty).
 * I've played with the $wgPhpCli setting.

The apache error log contains the following when I edit the schema: [Tue Feb 11 03:34:46 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: fieldDelimiterSet in /usr/local/devmediawiki-1.22.2/w/extensions/PageSchemas/specials/PS_EditSchema.php on line 260, referer:

I'm out of ideas. Thanks.


 * Hi - I'm familiar with that error message (it'll be fixed), but I'm pretty sure that's not the cause. How many pages are you trying to generate? And what happens if (using the checkboxes) you try to only generate one or two of them at a time? Yaron Koren (talk) 13:21, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I am having the exact same issue, I can create the schema with no issues, but page generation will not work. Also tried generating pages one at a time and still a no go...


 * Did you try running runJobs.php? Yaron Koren (talk) 01:10, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

That worked, I'm assuming then that it is a permissions issue? Also, i have to do a null edit with forms to get the updated changes to work, is this normal?


 * Hi - no, it's not a permissions issue; if you're using MW 1.22 (which I'm guessing you are), it's a bug in that version of MediaWiki - see the "Common problems" section. I didn't understand the second question, though. Yaron Koren (talk) 02:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Uploadable issue, partial handling of list of value in a field issue, and some suggestions
Hi there,

After using MW 1.22.5 + SMW 1.9.2 + SF 2.7 + PageSchema 0.4.2 for a week, I have noticed some issues, and some enhancements to perform to get a fully usable extension without need to manually custom templates or forms generated.


 * Issue 1 : Whereas I work with all most recent extension versions, the issue of “uploadable=” in the form generated through PageSchema is still present. So the equal sign still needs to be manually removed, and the bad thing is that you will to need to do it each time you want make evolution on the form.

! Display label But in order to embed the picture in the generated page I would need to have this : ! Display label
 * Enhancement 1 : To go further with uploadable feature, when a field is set to be uploadable, would it be possible to automatically add to the generated template the file name property. For example, if I want a field to import a picture, “Picture” will be the label of the field. By using current feature and adding file namespace to my field, I can get in my template :
 * File:
 * [[File::File:]]


 * Issue 2 : I got another trouble by using multiple values for the same field. So I created through Page Schema a template using a field that can hold a list of values. On the model I ticked “Can hold a list of values” option. On the property, I wrote the allowed values. At generating form, all is ok, list option is appended to the field in the form. At generating model, the parser function #arraymap is not used for the field. That means that even if I can choose on the form multiple values for the field, field in the page generated through the form doesn’t support multiple values in it. Again, I have then to manually modify my template by using #arraymap. So I think when, on a particular field for a template, we choose “Can hold a list of values”, the template generated should use #arraymap. Moreover this is the behavior of the special page CreateTemplate.


 * Enhancement 2 : Finally, I have a suggestion for next version of page schema: can you add an optional category field for the template, as it is done on the special page CreateTemplate : “Category defined by template (optional) “?


 * Issues #1 and #2 both sound like bugs - I'll have to look into those. (I'm especially surprised by issue #2.) I'm also surprised by enhancement #1 - if you add a property for that field, it should show up in the template - not in the syntax you have it, but with a #set call, which should have the same effect. Does the #set call not show up for you? And for enhancement #2, I felt that that was not necessary because the category where the page schema is defined is already being added to the template. Do you need to add a 2nd category? Yaron Koren (talk) 13:44, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

generate pages doesn't work
M.W. 1.22.5 smw 1.8.0.5

Schemas looks like a great extension.

I get this message when i try to generate: Fatal error: Call to a member function getNsText on a non-object in /home/yidtrave/public_html/mw/extensions/PageSchemas/PageSchemas.classes.php on line 66


 * That's strange... what version of Page Schemas are you using? Yaron Koren (talk) 21:07, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Version 0.4.1


 * Alright. My guess is that it's something specific to this schema, in some way. Is this a public wiki? If not, could you put the schema XML somewhere, like pastebin, or email it to me? Yaron Koren (talk) 11:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for emailing it to me. I couldn't reproduce the problem; but I just realized that you're using an older version of Page Schemas - 0.4.1 instead of 0.4.2. Could you try upgrading, and see if that fixes the problem? Yaron Koren (talk) 20:48, 30 April 2014 (UTC)


 * This was resolved - the issue was something I should have thought about right at the beginning, which was the MW 1.22 jobs bug. Yaron Koren (talk) 12:51, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

MW 1.23
''If you are using MediaWiki 1.22, there is a good chance that trying to generate pages automatically will not work, because of a bug in MW 1.22 in which jobs that modify pages simply do not get run. If that is happening for you, it is recommended to add this call in LocalSettings.php, which should restore the correct behavior:''

I have same problem with MW 1.23.1 and SMW 1.9.2, but $wgPhpCli = false; don't solve the problem.


 * It's not surprising that that fix would not help. If you call runJobs.php, do the pages get created? Yaron Koren (talk) 23:40, 29 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, this is the solution I use now. Baxi69 (talk) 16:22, 3 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Alright - this problem came up for the Replace Text extension as well, which similarly makes page edits via jobs, and there some people were able to get around the problem in MW 1.23 by adding this to LocalSettings.php:

$wgRunJobsAsync = false;
 * That might work here. Yaron Koren (talk) 16:42, 3 July 2014 (UTC)