Thread:Project:Support desk/Help needed in a couple of areas

Hi all, I'm working with semantic mediawiki, building a wiki of literature, and there are a couple of things that I tried to make work but couldn't figure out exactly how. 1. I have the form:author, which sends the entries to the category:authors, but they list by their first names, and I need it to list by their last names. I tried using DEFAULTSORT, but I don't know how to add it to the syntax of the form or template.

2. When you look at a person's page you see their occupation, for instance, author, which comes from the property occupation::author. I want this to link to the category:authors. I couldn't find any way to piped-link from a template at all.

3. I have the authors birth date separated from their birth year. Is there a way to pick and display a date without the year?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the headache :) Asaf


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