Extension talk:Page Forms

Is there anyway to use this extension with another. If I wanted to use lets say.. the imagemap extension for an input instead of the input types that I can use with the semantic forms already? --198.70.22.217 19:58, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't really understand how that would work. The imagemap extension, as far I know, just arranges links within an image; it doesn't allow for data input. Yaron Koren 00:05, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You are right, that is a bad example. More along the lines of a flash video extension or something like that. More importantly, just any extension that requires some sort of input. --72.21.245.86 12:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * There would be no automatic way to combine the extensions, no; but if someone wanted to write code for data entry in Flash (or, say, AJAX), I'd certainly look into combining the two in some way, because that would be a neat feature. Yaron Koren 14:43, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * To continue this discussion a little, is it not possible to be able to use wikitext in any of the input types?? Would that be difficult to implement? --75.107.9.104 02:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


 * It's a possible enhancement. Yaron Koren 16:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this would be a wonderful enhancement!!! I think what you have done already is just specatular, but something like this would make me feel like a little boy getting a puppy for the first time!!!--198.70.22.217 17:25, 30 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Yea, I need to be able to use wiki markup text in forms instead of HTML (linking to same-wiki links is annoying using HTML, for example, when it would be much easier with wiki markup). —Eep² 03:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You can use wiki markup in the freetext area, can't you?--Robert Buzink 13:53, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Sure, but I need the wiki markup in the form titles to provide links to what they mean (or javascript/CSS popups). Having to write out URLs for local (and/or interwiki) links to wiki pages is ridiculous. —Eep² 02:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Help Help
I'm new to the Wikipedia extensions. I tried installing this extension along with the recommended Semantic Wiki as had been instructed. Copied all files and included the statements as instructed into the LocalSettings.php file. But...I'm getting two errors that I'm not sure how to resolve.

I get the following error when I try to create a new template: Fatal error: Class 'SMWInlineQuery' not found in /wiki/extensions/SemanticForms/includes/SF_GlobalFunctions.php on line 161

I also get this error a couple of times if I tried to incorporate a template as part of the form: Fatal error: Cannot access protected property SMW_LanguageEn::$smwDatatypeLabels in /wiki/extensions/SemanticForms/includes/SF_FormPrinter.inc on line 704

I am using the following: * MediaWiki: 1.10.1 * PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler) * MySQL: 4.0.18-log

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


 * It sounds like you don't have Semantic MediaWiki installed; is that possible? Yaron Koren 14:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I did install it. I tried running a very simple test with a couple of relations, and it looks like it's picking them up properly.  Is there any way to tell for sure whether it was properly installed or not?


 * If you're still having this problem, please contact me directly; this talk page is a very inefficient way of communicating. In general, that goes for everyone: if you have a question or a problem running this extension, you're better off emailing me directly, or joining the mailing list and posting the problem there. Yaron Koren 05:16, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Creating a SemanticForm and using tags
Hi guys hope you can help. If I can get this working, 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 = to proper wiki tables.


 * The reason you need to do all these re-saves is because of an SMW bug (which can be fixed) - it's in the SF documentation now, under "Semantic Forms issues". Yaron Koren 23:25, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Adding Namespaces
I would like to add some namespaces to our wiki after having installed "semantic wiki" and "semantic forms". Now I am not sure which ones I can use. In the "LocalSetting.php" I put $sfgNamespaceIndex = 150. Does that mean that I can continoue with the namespace 152 ? My best, --Gollum 12:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, you can use a lot of namespace numbers, but 152 should work fine. Yaron Koren 02:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

strange Characters show up on german sematic wikis
Having installed semantic forms on a german wiki (http://wiki-products.org) there are some problems with displaying some of the page titles. E.g. in special pages it says: "&lt;createcategory&gt;" instead of "Erstelle eine Kategorie". Also the form page itself (in the second step) (http://de.wiki-products.org/Formular:Fahrzeuge) shows a strange title e.g. "&lt;sf_adddata_title&gt;" instead of "Füge Seite hinzu:Audi A4 TDI". Is there anything I cn do about this? Everything else seems to be working fine. Keep up the good work! My best, --Gollum 12:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, congratulations on releasing your wiki. What you're seeing are some language values that weren't translated. It looks like you're using an old version of SF; if you upgrade to the latest version, those problems should go away. You should probably upgrade to the latest version of SMW while you're at it. Yaron Koren 16:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)