Extension talk:Page Forms

Sub-Form of Semantic Forms
Hey, dear All

Is there any possible to build a Sub-Form inside Semantic Forms? Or, can we create a Sub-Property which belongs to a Property?

Right now the case is, we want to create a Form, and for Property A, there is no direct content for A, but A has for Sub-Properties, A1,A2,A3 and A4, and we need to input content into A1-A4.

Is there any possible way to do this?Many thanks in advance.


 * I'm not sure I understand your question - but "show on select" might be helpful here. Yaron Koren (talk) 16:50, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Many thanks, as your suggestion, I use the "mutiple template" and it seems to fit with our target, but still we need to talk about it tomorrow.


 * But many thanks anyway, for every help!!

Weirdness using "button" formlink
For some reason when I try to use any formlink with type BUTTON, it doesn't work but instead the popup only loads the main page of the wiki. Weird thing is that I've checked the form action and it is indeed the correct string (even pasted it in to ensure that it would bring me to the right form entry). Just tested this on SF 2.4 (fresh download) and MW 1.17. Thinking back, this actually broke a while back. Maybe I posted here already? Not sure. Weird! It might be conflicts if nobody else is experiencing this. Thorncrag   20:10, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Don't know about the release version. Just tried it on an MW 1.17 with the current dev version of SF and it worked alright. Maybe give it a try. There were several changes in the handling of parser functions. --F.trott (talk) 20:19, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Lingo Extension
Hi. I have started using Semantic Mediawiki 1.7.0.2 wit Semantic Forms 2.3.2

If I have words or phrases in Field names that are on a page called Terminology and used by the Lingo Extension then the extension is interfering with the rendering of the "Edit with Form" page. The inserted Spans are a problem.

I will have to be careful with my terminology!


 * Fixed in the dev version of SF on SVN. --F.trott (talk) 22:57, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Preloading data into multiple instance template
What preload data into form with multiple instance template? --Pastakhov (talk) 10:24, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * If I understand the question correctly - you need to add another index in the query string; see here for one example: http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Item/Some_Item?Opinion[Topic][1]=ABC (sorry, it was too hard to make it a link). Yaron Koren (talk) 01:52, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, thanks :-) --Pastakhov (talk) 06:40, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

fancybox not being loaded by form pages
I am having trouble with uploading files in my forms. Fancybox.js does not seem to be loaded with the page. I am running mediawiki 1.18 and SF 2.4.1 at first i thought it was a problem with resource loader but i saw SF is on the list for "Resource loader compatible extensions". If it's not showing up on the page, how do i go about tracking down the problem? Can i manually load it somehow?


 * I have no idea - are you using a skin other than Vector? Or are you using some other extension that might be interfering with the Javascript? And what version of Semantic MediaWiki are you using? Is this a public wiki, by any chance? Yaron Koren (talk) 01:28, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Mediawiki 1.18 semantic forms 2.4.1, here is an example page, i have enabled editing for anons so you can see what i'm talking about. PlantWiki. I use a custom skin based off Monobook (pretty much only css has been changed). I'm a LAMP developer and don't have much experience tracing javascript so i'm a little lost. Thanks for the help!


 * Ah - the fact that it's a public wiki is extremely helpful. Your problem is a Javascript error, coming from this file. (I've never heard of the "JavaScript" extension before.) And you're using version 1.7.0.2 of Semantic MediaWiki, by the way. Yaron Koren (talk) 11:56, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Text box too large
Hello everyone, I'm having trouble enlarging or shrinking a text box (not a textarea) size. I tried using 'size=' parameter but it just remains the same. I have also tried using different browsers but the outcome is still the same. Please help.


 * What's the full tag you have? Yaron Koren (talk) 19:31, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

request: wikieditor textarea size
Since textareas where editor=wikiEditor are contained by the wikiEditor UI and we thus don't appear to have control over the wikiEditor container size, it would seem logical to disable the number of columns and disable setting width to 'auto' when editor=wikiEditor. Thoughts?


 * Nevermind, I found that [[Media:Screenshot 1.png|this]] happens when the textarea is set to autogrow. When autogrow is taken off, the textarea fills the wikiEditor space.

Are you using WikiEditor with forms? I know a lot of people have been asking about this but Yaron has mentioned it's currently not possible.


 * When did I say it wasn't possible? It's been possible since version 2.3. Yaron Koren (talk) 11:56, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Problems editing a page
I would like that the tab "Edit with form" shows up in every page. So, I created the page "MyWiki:Main" (but changing with my wiki's namespace) with the content Page has default form::form-name.

Am I doing something wrong?

Also, when I'm editing a page, it doesn't show the real source and I really like to edit the source.

For example, the source is: Name: ABC

When I try to edit it shows:


 * For the first question - it should be "Has default form", not "Page has default form". For the 2nd question - that is the real source. Maybe you should read up more about MediaWiki templates. Yaron Koren (talk) 11:57, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Category select depth
I have the following code in a form:.

However, there seems to be an issue in that I can only select categories up to depth 1. I am able to expand categories to view subcategories of them, but I can't tick the box next to a subcategory, rendering them slightly pointless.

Considering the large number of categories (and especially subcategories) my project has, that is annoying. Is there any way to fix it? Dendodge (talk) 00:49, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Dynamically extend form
Hi,

I try to do the following: I have a base form/template ("Job") and I want to extend the base form with a specific other template depending on the selection of a "Job type" list box. This already works with:

I have two  section in my form (with id "jobtype_website" and "jobtype_application"). These two DIVs contain a complete form specification.

Now, when I save the form, both template definitions are included into the final page, even the one that was not visible in the form. Is it possible to create a template definition only when the DIV containing the form is visible? Or when a specific field inside the extended form is filled?

Or, as an alternative solution: Is there a possibility to limit the "multiple" form to allow only 0 or 1 forms?

Thanks. Jens--157.161.162.66 15:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi - being able to limit the number of instances of a multiple-instance template might have been a reasonable solution here, but unfortunately it can't be done. What's so bad about having the extra, unused template in the page, though? If the issue is that it's displaying some header that you don't want it to, you can get around that by using #if to only show the header when necessary. Conversely, you don't need even need three templates - you can have everything in one big template, again using #if to only show the relevant parts each time. Yaron Koren (talk) 17:02, 12 March 2012 (UTC)