Extension talk:Semantic MediaWiki/LQT Archive 1

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 * If you have a usage question, please post them to the SMW support mailing lists (archives).
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When asking for help or describing bugs, do not forget to provide necessary details about your configuration, version details for all relevant components, information about other extensions that are used, and, if possible, a URL where the problem can be seen.

The below talk page is most useful for comments regarding the wiki page, but of course you may do as you like (it's a wiki, after all). --Markus Krötzsch 16:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Creating a SemanticForm and using tags
Hi guys hope you can help. If I can get this working ok, this will be a MAJOR thing for us :>)

Example: Lets say I have an extension called NewTaskTag, which lets you insert a  into a wiki page, then you manually insert parameters as follows..

 Task = This task completed at.. Time = 6pm Priority = Severe Updated by =   Task = Time = Priority = Updated by = 

The extension then renders the html into a table like format.

Because this is a manual job, I wanted to make it easier to do this.

So, Ive installed Semantic Mediawiki along with SemanticForms.

These are great, but I wanted to know if you could use a form to do the above instead of using the normal edit option with Mediawiki.

The problem I see is how will the form know how to interpret and pass the entered bits/eg. the fields to the extension, and how would you say, in a form, place a filed to say to use ?

To further clarify what Im trying to say is the following.

If I want to use the  in a wiki page, I just go to a new page, click on Edit, and enter the following:

 Task = Time = Priority = Updated by =   Task = Time = Priority = Updated by = 

I then complete each line, eg.Task = This new task, Time = 6pm, etc etc.

What Id like to do is the following:

Create a new form that has this format:

Task: [___ Text Box for Task entry___] Time: [___ Text Box for Time entry___] Priority: [___ Text Box for Priority entry___] Updated By: [___ Text Box for Updated By entry___]

All the user would have to do is then input in the text boxes the required data, then the  would do the rest. The questions I have though are:

1)How would the form know that each text box is actually in the format: Task = --Roc michael 13:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

#ask sort
I am having an issue within the sorting function.

So, my desired end result is to have the table format I have within the template be sortable.

Here is the problem I encounter. When the table is first created the sorting is correct. When the sorting icon within the "Date" column is clicked to changing the sorting from descending to ascending the dates become out of order and can never achieve any type of logical order again (until the table is refreshed).

Now, to fix this I have used the following code:

This works, but I want the "mainlabel" result to display a linked image/icon or "View More Info..."

Thank you in advance for all responses and comments.

-Dgennaro 13:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

making a property without linking
Is there a way to make a property and not have an automatic link be generated from it? I read the SMW documentation on "Properties" and it eludes to this being possible but doesn't say how.--Iloveemeryville 23:35, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure thing - add the property has type:String or has type:Number to the property page. (Alex Brown)

Dynamic Pagelist vs. Semantic Mediawiki
I have started a Comparison of Dynamic Pagelist x Semantic Mediawiki. Please help to give valuable information for a good choice. --Jannis 19:19, 22 December 2009 (UTC)