Extension talk:Page Forms

Can't seem to get "info|page name=" working?
I'm currently unable to get the "info" tag working partnered with a "page name" variable... My form code is copied below, any hints would be most welcome:



Free text:

and the call for the form:

Clicking the button just directs you to the "main" frontpage of the wiki site. Ashimema (talk) 12:06, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


 * OK, I've just narrowed this down to being a problem with "link type=button".. if I leave that out it seems to work as expected? Ashimema (talk) 12:28, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


 * What version of SF are you using? Yaron Koren (talk) 18:15, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry Yaron, should have included that detail in the original post.. Silly me. MW 1.19.0, SMW 1.7.1 and SF 2.4.2 (Also have Results Formats 1.7.1 and Form Inputs 0.5 Installed to.. but don't think they're affecting this issue?) Ashimema (talk) 08:09, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Correction to above, I noticed that Semantic Forms Inputs had a new release i hadn't spotted.. just updated to 0.6. Problem with button type is still apparent. Ashimema (talk) 08:18, 6 July 2012 (UTC)


 * It's definitely not related to SFI. Actually, my guess is that it's due to your URL structure, in one way or another. What's the URL it take you to when you press on the button - is it literally ".../Main_Page"? Yaron Koren (talk) 18:17, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Periodic Disappearance of Data

 * MediaWiki 1.18.3
 * http://foreclosurepedia.org/reo (the front page has a map which used to display markers on a map based upon #ask)
 * http://foreclosurepedia.org/reo/index.php?title=Special:Version (for all the versions of the SMW stuff I use)

About every other month Semantic Forms (or whatever else is on the back end of SMW) completely wipes my data from forms I have entered. Specifically, when I save a form a category is assigned. I then use the category to display an #ask to display pins on a map. They always vanish every other month (I can almost set a clock to this) I have filed multiple requests for help on this and Jeron is familiar with the issue and stated something about a new map update needed. In the past it simply would not be able to list markers on a map which I then had to go in and manually resave to update. Now, though, it has removed the Category association with tons of files; however, they still appear in the All Pages section.

I am pushing a ticket with my host at the same time, but if SMW is going to be consistently unreliable simply let me know so that I may pursue a different platform. I work for the US Government and we felt that this software package would be a good open source alternative to be able to demonstrate it's capabilities. So far, it is not proving such.

I am willing to submit any logs, passwords, etc. you may require as I am hopeful that the SMW community is interested in providing a quality product. --Coffeehound (talk) 06:10, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

A Note: You will notice one pin on the map on the main page. It is there because I selected a file and clicked the Edit and then Saved it. So, I had to manually update --- for NO reason whatsoever other than a glitch --- to keep the data I originally entered! It also added it back to the Category of REO Property Inventory. --Coffeehound (talk) 06:30, 7 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I had my site rolled back to restore the data. So, you will see the main page with map markers populating the data and the files have been restored to their proper category.  The issue still remains, though, and I anticipate it will continue. --Coffeehound (talk) 16:49, 7 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi - are you sure that this is a Semantic Forms issue? Is the data being lost in the text of the pages themselves, or only in the underlying data being stored by SMW? It's only an SF issue in the former case. Yaron Koren (talk) 02:45, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I do not know where it is getting lost as I do not code. I speculate that as the pages are still in existence, it is related to however SMW moves it's data around and stores it. It only happens with pages which are created by Semantic MediaWiki Forms though. If you want access to the logs or whatever you need let me know. If you need to move the thread so be it. I messaged you as I have some information which is proprietary.

Here is what happens:


 * I enter data through Semantic Forms
 * It stores it just fine and is searchable via Category as well
 * Using an #ask formula my stuff posts to the map (http://foreclosurepedia.org/reo)
 * Every month or so everything vanishes and can only be found via the All Pages feature
 * The pages must be individually edited and then saved to repopulate both the Map and repopulate into the Category
 * There is no known activity on my host's end to explain these actions

Thank you. --Coffeehound (talk) 23:10, 8 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay - so the problem is not in the contents of the pages, but rather just in the data stored by SMW. So the issue is with Semantic MediaWiki - or maybe something weird is going on behind the scenes, like some cron job that wipes out all the SMW data in the database. In any case, it doesn't sound like a Semantic Forms issue. The fact that all these pages were created by SF isn't necessarily that relevant, is it? I mean, aren't all of the pages that contain semantic data editable via forms? Yaron Koren (talk) 00:17, 9 July 2012 (UTC)