Extension talk:Page Forms

Inserting a simple popup (modal) in a form
Hello there,

I would like to insert a popup (like a Bootstrap modal) into a form.

Do you know how I can do that ?

I know how to insert a Tooltip and to Enhancing query forms. But I didn't find anything about inserting a simple popup with simple text in it without using HTML.

Thanks a lot


 * What about a tooltip instead? For that you could use #info, if you have Semantic MediaWiki installed, or if not you could use the SimpleTooltip extension. Yaron Koren (talk) 16:50, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Yaron, a tooltip is to small for all the content that I want to insert in the popup (image + text) plus, it doesn't fit well in my webdesign. :( is there a way to insert a boostrap modal ? I use Chameleon skin by the way. Thanks.


 * I fixed the problem. To anyone that might be interested : I used [|this shortcode of Chameleon] and I remplaced the that is not interpreted by mediawiki by a simple div.

Code of "special:CreateCategory
Hello there,

at the moment i want something like the "special:createcategory" page, but which creates a category which has to be a subcategory of a category of a certain category tree. Preferably without the option to choose a form for it.

Using a form, it would be something like:

The problem with forms is that it creates pages, and not categories. How could i do to create a "category creator" with my own restrictions?

Thanks.


 * A "category" is just defined by a page in the "Category:" namespace. Couldn't you just create a regular form like the one you describe, and use it to create "Category:" pages? Yaron Koren (talk) 18:14, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

A form which creates categories? How come? You can create categories with a form, indicating the page created with your form is member of a category, but is there a way to create a form which just creates categories? Maiser(talk)

Modified form and template - duplicated data
Hello!

I created a few pages with a form, then I modified the form and the template (I added 5 properties to them in a table). Then on a page when I click on the edit with form button, enter the new inputs and click on save, the data is duplicated on the edited page. The first table doesn't have any values, the second table is filled out with the data I entered, and all other sections are duplicated too. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? 13:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)


 * It sounds like you renamed the template at some point? If so, you can use the Replace Text extension to modify all the existing pages to use the new template name - or just edit them manually, if there aren't too many. Yaron Koren (talk) 18:10, 5 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your quick response, but that's not the case, I didn't rename the template, I just added a few new properties to it. What else could be the problem? 13:24, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * It would help to see the form and template. Is this a public wiki? If not, could you pastebin them? Yaron Koren (talk) 14:02, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Of course, though I've already found out what the problem was. This was the bad one: http://pastebin.com/mNVhqppy and this is the working one: http://pastebin.com/iF1HwA4K 14:19, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Okay, great! Yaron Koren (talk) 14:50, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Show on select on Multiple-instance templates
Hello!

I would like to ask the experts how can I use "show on select" when using multiple-instance templates.

If I use "show on select" it this way, it does not work

But if I remove the multiple instance, then the "show on select" works.

...

Any hints?

Thanks in advance!


 * That should work... what versions of SF and MW are you using? And do you see any JavaScript errors if you look in the "console"? Yaron Koren (talk) 14:47, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help Yaron, we really appreciate it.
 * I am using:
 * - Semantic Forms (Versión 3.2),
 * - Semantic MediaWiki (Versión 2.1.1),
 * - MediaWiki 1.22.15


 * I do not see any error in the console, though I am a begginer in this fields. Here's the link to our form just in case


 * You've definitely found some sort of bug in Semantic Forms - I'm looking into it. Yaron Koren (talk) 18:58, 15 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I believe I've fixed this issue, in Git - if you try out the new code, please let me know if it worked for you. Yaron Koren (talk) 19:05, 16 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I upgraded to the new SemanticForms (3.3) and it worked!, Yaron Koren you are a genius and super hiper helpful. Thanks! 21:40, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * That's great to hear! Yaron Koren (talk) 12:37, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

missing icons in multiple form
hi there, using sf 3.2 and mw 1.23.9: the multiple form doesn't show the icons for new instance and delete instance. Same problem in firefox (v38) and ie (v9). What to do?


 * Is this a public wiki? If not - I'm guessing that this is a file permissions issue. The "delete instance" icon, for instance, should be viewable from the browser at /extensions/SemanticForms/skins/SF_remove.png in the wiki directory, like here. Can you see it on your wiki? If not, you probably need to make one or more of those directories world-readable. Yaron Koren (talk) 12:57, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanx for your advise; we use a central directory, were we save all extensions to simplify administration, because we have a lot of wikis on our server. I've made a directory extensions/SemanticForms/skins and put the .png into - works. Very fine.
 * Is it possible, that you use absolute path instead of relative path, to fetch the icons? Maybe you can change it, it might be more comfortable to administrate extensions for lots of wikis. Thank you.


 * No, the icons are already included with a relative path, from the file /skins/SemanticForms.css. Yaron Koren (talk) 17:20, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Special Pages: Create Template...
Hi Yaron - I'm finding that when I try to create a template, the properties combobox will populate only for the first field, but the succeeding ones do not. Is there a "fix" for this? Thanks again for all your work with Semantic Forms. Dmlddsoms (talk) 15:16, 13 June 2015 (UTC)


 * What do you see in the additional ones? Yaron Koren (talk) 12:58, 15 June 2015 (UTC)


 * The combo-box is empty upon drop down, whereas in the first field, it's completely populated. Dmlddsoms (talk) 14:22, 16 June 2015 (UTC)


 * What versions of SF, MW and SMW are you using? And do you see any error messages in the JavaScript "console"? Yaron Koren (talk) 18:29, 16 June 2015 (UTC)


 * MW 1.23.9, SB 1.9.2, SMW 1.9.2 SF 2.7. I'm going to claim ignorance on the JavaScript "console"...Dmlddsoms (talk) 01:46, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah, you're using the version of Semantic Forms from Semantic Bundle. I don't know if I can help with that - it's an old version. You could always upgrade SF manually... or just wait for the next SB. Yaron Koren (talk) 12:36, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks.Dmlddsoms (talk) 13:22, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Create a form with multiple input fields
Hey, like I wrote above, I would like to create a forminput with multiple input fields. I want to do that because our workers always mess up the form Name and put in to many spaces or delete the commas. I hope you understand what I mean, if not I try to explain it better with this: Currently our Forminput looks like this and after that comes the rest of the form. Now this is only one input row, and I want three input rows where each contains a part of the title. Ort: Projektname: Rechner: If it stays like this our workers keep messing up the title names and sometimes the names are full of underlines. Sorry for my bad english, if there is something not clear I try my best to edit it.

So, this is what I already wrote on the Semantic Mediawiki Talk Page but they sent me over here. They also said I should try the info Tag but somehow I cant get it to work.

When I put this in my code:

It only prints out what is in the first bracket:

Hopefully someone can help me out with this problem.


 * Make sure that you are going to the form with #formlink, not #forminput - that might be the issue. Alternatively, instead of the whole page name formula thing, you could try the AssembleFormLink extension - it's still experimental, but it is what you're asking about. Yaron Koren (talk) 12:53, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

New Features
Hi Yaron,

I’m very excited about SF 3.x. In combination with SMW and MediaWiki this is the most powerful knowledge management platform in the world. Thank you very much for your enthusiastic engagement.

I would like to ask you about some ideas:
 * What about free2use parameters in forms? I.e. one could pass them to the form with query string=par1=val1 and so on. This would be very helpful for flexibilization and will reduce the number of forms needed.
 * In SMW there is a significant difference beetween the notation &#91;&#91;device::server,client,notebook&#93;&#93; and &#91;&#91;device::server&#93;&#93;, &#91;&#91;device::client&#93;&#93;, &#91;&#91;device::notebook&#93;&#93;.
 * For most of the users is it to difficult to discern, that this requires different requests, like &#123;&#123;#ask: &#91;&#91;device::~*client*&#93;&#93;&#125;&#125; using the first notation vs. &#123;&#123;#ask: &#91;&#91;device::client&#93;&#93;&#125;&#125; using the second.
 * What about a field type, which can take a comma separated list of values and save them in the second notation?


 * #autoedit is a great feature; can you give it a new function like user or usergroup with which one can restrict the access to change values?


 * Hi - it's great that you like the system! I wish more people shared your opinion. :)
 * For #1 - I doubt that's doable. Remember that everything in a form has to go into a template - and those are even less flexible.
 * For #2 - do you know about #arraymap?
 * For #3 - a nicer solution might be to use the #ifgroup function from the RightFunctions extension, to only display the #autoedit button in the first place if the user belongs to the right group. Yaron Koren (talk) 14:03, 24 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your quick support and hints, i'll try it next days.
 * For #1 - i only need it calling the form with #formlink or #forminput, maybe this will be doable?


 * Sorry, I don't understand. Yaron Koren (talk) 00:13, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, i'll try to explain:
 * &#123;&#123;#forminput: form=hardware&#124;link text=new hardware item&#124;query string=hardware[type]= printer &department=personal management&typeList=listOf Printer Types&#125;&#125;
 * &#123;&#123;#forminput: form=hardware&#124;link text=new hardware item&#124;query string=hardware[type]= clients &department=north-west-branch&typeList=listOf Client Types&#125;&#125;
 * in both cases i use the form named hardware; the (free2use) parameter typeList should be used in values from property=&#123;&#123;&#123;typeList&#125;&#125;&#125;
 * so it is possible to give the form different list types depending from the value of typeList
 * Second example:
 * same like above with another free2use parameter called typeDescription. Serves the user an information about correct data capturing for the defined type.
 * I tried it using the values you can give to the form with query string; in the example above using &#123;&#123;#ifeq: hardware[type] ...&#125;&#125;, but this doesn't work.


 * Ah, that makes more sense. I'm still not sure I fully understand, but - perhaps either "show on select" or "values dependent on" could help with this? Yaron Koren (talk) 14:08, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Right, show on select can help, but every used div must be content of the form;
 * Right, but i tried to use values dependent on several times without success... It tried it with the example on discourseDB, too; even without success... :-(

SF Upgrade Errors..
Hi Yaron,

I upgraded SF and am getting errors on Edit with Form of existing pages, not with adding new.

Error is: ext.semanticforms.main: Error: Module ext.semanticforms.main has failed dependencies Prevent this page from creating additional dialogues Dmlddsoms (talk) 13:56, 24 June 2015 (UTC)


 * There's a problem with multiple-instance templates that's happening for some people; I hope to have it fixed soon. Yaron Koren (talk) 14:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. Dmlddsoms (talk) 14:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi again Yaron - has this error been resolved with 3.3.2? Dmlddsoms (talk) 15:10, 15 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't fully remember this error, but probably. Yaron Koren (talk) 23:43, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Position of Form Fields and Template resp. to free text
Hello,

I am trying to setup a form to create new wikipages. Is it possible to have free text and form fields in a different order than wikipage text and template? What I am trying to do is the following:

Form: Free text input field in between other form fields:

Wikipage: Template above the text: My text

However, I get the text above the template. Is it possible to change this?

Thank you for your help!

--82.83.211.13 21:48, 24 June 2015 (UTC)


 * No, I don't think you can have a free text input displayed between two fields of the same template. If you really wanted that kind of display, perhaps you could use CSS or JavaScript in some way to move the free text display up... Yaron Koren (talk) 19:53, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks all the same! I'll come up with something. --82.83.217.225 21:38, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Add unique number if user is not logged in
Hi everyone!

Is there a way to add a unique number to the page title only when the user is not logged in?

I use a form to let users add a rating for certain items. Currently, I have the following code at the top of the form to create the page name (passing the user (which is either the user name or "anonymus" if not logged in) and the item to be reviewed): However, I only want to add the unique number if the user is not logged in.

As the help page stated that parser functions can be used in the "page name", I tried something like this (using the MyVariables extension, where CURRENTLOGGEDUSER returns either the user name or an empty string): But when trying to save a new review I get an error stating that the page "..._}" cannot be saved. So I guess the if statement does not get resolved correctly...

Is there any other way to achive what I planned to do? Thanks! --145.253.178.241 12:48, 25 June 2015 (UTC)


 * If you remove "start=1", the unique number will only show up if the title is a duplicate. Maybe that's a good enough solution? Yaron Koren (talk) 19:59, 25 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your suggestion. The aim was to prevent at least logged-in users from giving multiple reviews for the same item. I think that would still not work after removing the "start=1" . --145.253.178.241 06:49, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Set a field value silently when using form for editing [Solved]
I'm trying to set a field to a known value when editing. I can do this easily when the form creates a new page with the default= option. However when using a different form to edit the article I can no longer do this (default= for a hidden field only seems to work on page creation). I tried setting the field as mandatory|values=myknownvalue|hidden but this doesn't have an effect either. I ended up making a normal mandatory field declaration with one value for values=. This has the desired effect except that I'd rather it not be displayed in the form! Ideas? - Lbillett (talk) 19:25, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, by the time I finished articulating my problem, I think I found a workaround. If you wrap the field tag in a  it will hide the whole input field but the form will set the field as specified. move along! - Lbillett (talk) 19:25, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Dropdown Box?
I used to have a code that allowed you to pick a category from a dropdown box. This was with MediaWiki 1.19.4 and Semantic Forms 2.5.2 It looked like this:

I'm working on a new wiki installation now, and it's my understanding that the category input type disappeared with Semantic Forms 2.7. I can use tree, but can't find any documentation about dropdowns. Did dropdowns also disappear? Is there a way to replicate what I was doing with this older installation?

--Aekki99 (talk) 23:40, 10 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah, "use dropdown", I forgot about that. I think the answer is no, unfortunately. Yaron Koren (talk) 19:32, 12 July 2015 (UTC)


 * This is my super duper sad face. Alas! Maybe it will show up in a future update. Thanks for the reply! --Aekki99 (talk) 22:31, 16 July 2015 (UTC)


 * That is sad... what's wrong with the "tree" input? Yaron Koren (talk) 15:43, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Show on select on Multiple-instance templates
> Edit with form ==

Hello !

I use "show on select" on multiple-instance templates and it does not work when I try to edit a page with the form (no problem during the creation of the page or when I remove the "multiple" parameter). My form allows to create recipes with multiple steps and the user has to choose a type of media on a dropdown with "show on select" :

When I try to edit with the form, the first instance appears normally (only the good "div" is displayed) but I can't change the type of media. On the following instances, all the "div" are displayed and I can't hide them changing the type of media.

I am using: - Semantic Forms 3.3 - Semantic MediaWiki 2.2.1 - MediaWiki 1.25.1

I don't see any JS error on the console.

Any help would be great !

Thank you in advance.


 * Try upgrading to SF 3.3.1 - the problem may or may not be fixed there. Yaron Koren (talk) 19:15, 16 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the quick response, unfortunately the upgrade did not fixed the problem.


 * Alright. What do you mean by "I can't change the type of media"? You can't select a different value in the dropdown? Yaron Koren (talk) 15:42, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I can select a different value but it has no effect on the hiding or displaying of the fields. You can see a page I have created with my form here. Feel free to edit it with form. Here are the form and the template.


 * Oops! It looks like the fix I put in actually made things worse for your wiki, due (I think) to your PHP configuration. I just checked in another fix; could you try updating again? Yaron Koren (talk) 14:56, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Updating done, I don't see any change. Again, thanks for your help. Eliott B 17:35, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks. That change did improve things but there was still an issue, which I think I fixed just now. Could you try updating again and see if it works now? Yaron Koren (talk) 17:20, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It seems to work perfectly! Many thanks!


 * That's great! Yaron Koren (talk) 23:44, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * And thanks for this, whoever you are! I wasn't aware that "show on select" was even possible with multiple instances of a template. Cavila (MW 1.22, MySQL 5.5.37-0, Php 5.4.4-14 squeeze, SMW 1.9.2, SF 2.7) 08:23, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It even works with fields holding templates. Great! Eliott B 09:29, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * This was indeed a pretty big issue and thank you for your fix of 2015-07-20 which indeed works! The nasty thing about this bug was not just not showing the other fields on the second edit of the page but to also automatically removing the contents added via the multi-instance template in the first place at the time of the second edit. Thus I suggest doing a new release at your convenience rather earlier than later. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 16:02, 27 July 2015 (UTC)


 * That's a good idea. Yaron Koren (talk) 17:48, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Show on select on does not work on Semantic Forms 2.7
Hello!

Just to let you know that Show on Select does not work in Semantic Forms 2.7

I upgraded to version 3.3 and it did work immediately

Semantic Forms 2.7 is the version used in SemanticBundle 1.9.2 which was the last version in 10 july 2015

Good luck and thanks for this great extension

Duplicate checkbox ID using Tree Input
Bit of a difficult one to explain - I have a long tree and I've discovered that adding some entries early in the listing will automatically select later entries and submit these. Having used Google Chrome element inspector it seems to be because the hidden checkboxes IDs are being repeated further down the page (and if one checkbox in the tree is clicked it will automatically check its partner further down). I don't know how this works - I've looked at the source and there is an ins element that might have something to do with it... Any help, suggestions or otherwise appreciated.


 * Are there any duplicate values in the tree? Is this part of a multiple-instance template? And what version of SF are you using? Yaron Koren (talk) 23:43, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * thanks for your quick response. There are no duplicate values (the values are academic disciplines from the JEL classification scheme with unique prefixes). There is a multi instance template elsewhere in the form but not here. 3.3.1.


 * Well, there go all of my theories. :) Is this on a public wiki? If not, could you try to replicate the problem on a public wiki, like http://scratchpad.referata.com? Yaron Koren (talk) 01:10, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I've put it at http://scratchpad.referata.com/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Study/Example_Study_(2015). The problematic field is JEL Disciplinary Classification(s). If you select for example A12: Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines it will automatically also add K2: Regulation and Business Law, seemingly because their corresponding checkboxes share an ID. A13 in turn shares with K3 etc etc. Please ignore the errors which I don't think are relevant (I use another extension to be able to embed links in my tool tips). Also, I assume you don't need to see my templates since the issue seems to correspond with how the form sends the data. Maybe I'm doing something totally wrong (hope so, that would be progress to know it!). I've also tested on a previous version of the wiki from a backup and the issue has been around from earlier SMW/MW/Semantic Forms versions. Really appreciate your help, and your fantastic free software.


 * Think I've found the issue and a fix - in SF_TreeInput.php (line 157)  means that you end up with checkbox ids of the form  . However, that means a clash between, what are, for example, essentially   and  . To resolve I've replaced that line with   so each individual index is hyphenated, like   and  . Please let me know if this is a sensible change or if it will break my wiki (I'm not an expert coder by any means)!


 * What you're saying seems reasonable... on the other hand, I can't actually see the problem you're talking about, on the Scratchpad wiki. Can you? (K2 is already pre-selected on that page you created, but you probably knew that.) Yaron Koren (talk) 13:15, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I've deselected it now so no checkbox is selected. If you try to select just A12 and either save then edit or hit show changes you'll see that K2 is added as well. I'm not that keen to go out of step with the shipped Semantic Forms code, so would be great if you could acknowledge that I'm not going mad (or that I am doing something wrong which is more likely!). Thanks!

Oh, I get it - it's not that the other checkbox gets checked right away, it's that its value shows up when you submit the form. Well, both your diagnosis and your fix were spot on - I just checked in your fix, and it seems to be working a lot better now. Thank you! Yaron Koren (talk) 19:14, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Create page based off form input
I am working on a project where it would be really useful to have the form set the target page based off user input in the form. Is there a way I can do that? Nunabas (talk) 15:07, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * What do you mean by "based off"? Yaron Koren (talk) 18:27, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * If I wanted to pick say a date, and location the resulting page title would be location/date as the page title, and then be able to fill in a template for the page content. Nunabas (talk) 10:23, 23 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Have you seen this section? It may be what you're looking for. Yaron Koren (talk) 13:50, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Stop browser from 'focusing' on #forminput field after page load?
When loading a regular article that has a #forminput element on it, chrome seems to immediately put browser focus on it. In some cases this is ideal, but it also creates some un-desired cases in that the user's view can be immediately scrolled halfway down a page if there's a field there (when what they wanted to see was the top). Is it possible to adjust this behavior? IE9 does not do this, not sure if that helps identify the cause. - Lbillett (talk) 14:17, 30 July 2015 (UTC)


 * The focus was done on purpose, actually, in this change. I didn't think there would be a downside to it, but evidently there is. I guess this will have to be another parameter for #forminput. Yaron Koren (talk) 14:25, 30 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah, ok. It's not a big deal, I can move it up higher in my template so it output's earlier, or replace it with a #formlink process or something (just means one extra step, which in this case is totally fine). I'll probably do that. Cheers - Lbillett (talk) 14:33, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Multiple instances: Removing edit buttons and dragging
Hello guys. I've looked through the archives and nobody seems to have wanted to do this before.

I have a page with 84 instances of a template. When editing with form, I dont want my engineers to be able to add/remove entries or drag them around, because the order corresponds to the order in a legal document. Is there any way to get rid of these features for this page/form only, without hardcoding the whole thing?

I've tried defining in the form as workaround. So far, the form is unimpressed and still lets me add more entires. SMW 1.6.2, SF 2.2.1 --212.103.80.194 08:18, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I can't think of an easy way to do it just for one page. You could just hide the "edit with form" tab for that page... or even disable editing on it altogether. Or you could use the Approved Revs extension to allow you to check any edits made to that page before they actually take effect. Yaron Koren (talk) 14:33, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your answer. I do want them to use the form! I just don't want them to be able to add or remove instances or move them around (I only want them to change the contents using the form). But maybe you're right. We do have a document release system in place and I'll just have to trust people not to delete anything.. Is there a possibiliy to remove the drag-feature systemwide? --212.103.80.194 15:07, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * No, there's no way to disable dragging. That seems... extreme, even for your use case. The implementation of min/max depends on the SF version - I think in recent versions, those params truly do prevent you from adding/removing, even before the form is submitted. Though I still don't see how that would work for you, given that it's only one page you want to have this restriction for.


 * More generally, now I'm curious: why would your users want to add/remove/rearrange the template instances on this page, given that the underlying data (whatever it is) presumably hasn't changed? Yaron Koren (talk) 15:17, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Because they can ;-)
 * The EU Medical Device Directive defines 84 requirements. For each one our engineers must decide whether that particular one applies to our device or not, this has an impact on the device's development. I've just created a new form which will greatly simplifly this for them. However, some engineer might decide to just delete an instance he feels doesn't apply instead of just marking it as not-applicable. This is a problem because it would create a gap in our documentation. Instead of explicitly being marked as not-applicable it would be undefined - The FDA would not like that at all. Thats why I want to prevent people from (accidently) deleting instances of my form.


 * I've just tested the Min/Max on a testserver with a higher version. These settings wont prevent the user from deleting an instance, but it will prevent them from saving, at least. --212.103.80.194 15:34, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh - so every page that uses this form has 84 instances, and always in the same order? If that's true, maybe you should just hardcode all the fields, instead of using a multiple-instance template. Yaron Koren (talk) 17:31, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Well thanks so much for taking your time. Im a bit worried that hardcoding every element of every instance might seriously slow down loading times. I'll give it a shot and test it and weigh them up to each other :) Have a great day --212.103.80.194 07:17, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Extension:Semantic Forms/Quick start guide. Example problem. [Solved]
I am trying to set up the Semantic Forms-based books and author wiki from scratch, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Quick_start_guide.

When I try to create the template for author and fill in the "Aggregation" fields as described in the example I get: Notice: Undefined property: SFTemplate::$mAggregatingLabel in ...\extensions\SemanticForms\includes\SF_Template.php on line 358.

I am using: MediaWiki 1.25.1 PHP      5.4.26 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL    5.6.17 Lua      5.1.4

Semantic Forms    777ed50 Semantic MediaWiki 2.2.2

Running on a Windows Small Business Server 2011

--Olht (talk) 21:46, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Oops! That bug has apparently been in place for a long time. Thanks for letting me know; I think I just fixed it. Yaron Koren (talk) 23:46, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you, but sorry, the problem still exists. I have downloaded Semantic Forms again and updated my SMW installation. The problem can be shown in my website: http://www.hattebol.no/Spesial%3AOpprett_mal.

My localsettings.php: include_once "$IP/extensions/SemanticForms/SemanticForms.php"; enableSemantics('hattebol.no'); /** Adjust to yours.*/ setlocale( LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8" ); $smwgNamespacesWithSemanticLinks[NS_TEMPLATE] = true; --Olht (talk) 12:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Are you sure you upgraded SF? It looks like you're still on 777ed50. Yaron Koren (talk) 13:52, 5 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I used git clone https://git.wikimedia.org/git/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticForms.git. I thought that would give me the latest version. --Olht (talk) 14:27, 5 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I really don't know... perhaps you did get the latest version of the code, but didn't put it in the right place? Yaron Koren (talk) 14:37, 5 August 2015 (UTC)


 * That was it, thanks for the help, kudos to you. However my version of Semantic Forms still show 777ed50. --Olht (talk) 15:08, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiEditor no longer working in SF after upgrade
Hi, after upgrading MW to 1.25 (from 1.19) and upgrading SF to 2.7 I no longer can get WikiEditor working for free text fields in Forms. If a form contains this:

I get this popup: ext.semanticforms.fancybox: Error: Module ext.semanticforms.fancybox has failed dependencies and no WikiEditor toolbar appears. Any ideas? SzymonS (talk) 10:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)


 * OK, disregard that; apparently the problem was with SF 2.7 (installed as part of SemanticBundle) and has been fixed by upgrading SF to current (3.3.2).

Semantic forms and inputbox bug
I am trying to get an input box where users can input a new title and SF takes the user to that page and prompts them to create the form via a defined SF. However I get the source editor. Is there any way to fix that?


 * I don't know... why not just use #forminput? Yaron Koren (talk) 16:52, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Tree Input Structure appears broken in 3.3.3
Upgrading SF from 3.3.1 to 3.3.3 seems to break Tree Inputs that use the Structure option. Only the uppermost parents are displayed, no child options/checkboxes. Thanks!


 * Sorry about that - I just checked in a fix for this bug, here. Yaron Koren (talk) 20:04, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

MWException in RunQuery
Not sure if I'm alone in this problem, but I'm getting the following error on RunQuery pages after upgrading to the newest version.

MWException from line 639 of ***\extensions\SemanticMediaWiki\includes\SemanticData.php: Data for a subobject of RunQuery cannot be added to RunQuery_dummy_title.

I changed the exception error line to ignore RunQuery_dummy_title for the mean time and everything seems ok, but of course a better fix would be better.


 * Does this happen with any form that you "plug in" to Special:RunQuery, or only one? And did you mean the newest version of SF, or SMW? Yaron Koren (talk) 18:46, 25 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Hey Yaron. It seems to happen with any forms, and they're pretty varied in their functions.  I recently updated everything to the newest versions, including SF, SMW, and MW.


 * Alright. My guess is that it's an issue with SMW - there hasn't been a change to the operation of Special:RunQuery in a while. Yaron Koren (talk) 13:24, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Alternate fix is changing line 515 of Semantic Form's SF_FormPrinter.php to "$this->mPageTitle = Title::newFromText( 'RunQuery' );" That way the two match up.  Not sure if this would cause any other problems, but looks like an easy fix.


 * Does that work for you? Yaron Koren (talk) 13:11, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, the fix appears to work. The SMW error is complaining that expected RunQuery title is not the same as RunQuery_dummy_title set by that line.  Changing it to just RunQuery fixes that.  Hope this helps.  Thanks


 * Alright, I just put in a similar fix in the code. Thanks for that suggestion. Yaron Koren (talk) 16:48, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

div id for 'show on select'
Just a question. I've noticed that using 'show on select' in SF 3.3.1 you cannot reuse a 'div id' in a form. This is not necessarily a problem because you can always create a second 'div id' in its stead. Something to add the documentation perhaps, but I recall that reusing 'ids' was actually possible in an earlier version of SF. So is this a minor regression? Cavila 11:16, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, there's mention of a HierarchyRequestError in the browser console, which sounds like it could be the party pooper responsible for this. I can't find anything about javascript conflicts that could be causing this, unfortunately. Cavila (MW 1.22, MySQL 5.5.37-0, Php 5.4.4-14 squeeze, SMW 1.9.2, SF 2.7) 11:38, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


 * How could having the same div ID more than once in a form have worked before? How could the system know which div to show/hide? Yaron Koren (talk) 13:46, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Good question, I've no idea. Cavila (MW 1.22, MySQL 5.5.37-0, Php 5.4.4-14 squeeze, SMW 1.9.2, SF 2.7) 18:30, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

ConfirmEdit no longer working with SF
It looks like the ConfirmEdit extension is no longer working with Semantic Forms. When a user goes to save the page it throws a mwexception which I traced back to line 471 in SF_AutoeditAPI.php. The confirm edit hook throws an expected error, and SF fails. Before, saving the form would take the user to a regular edit page with the semantic form's updated info, the user would fill out the captcha, and the edit would be saved. Is there any way I could get the old behavior back, or maybe an improved behavior? Thanks!


 * What's the exception, and what versions of SF, CE and MW are you using? Yaron Koren (talk) 20:14, 31 August 2015 (UTC)


 * it happens at line 471 "case EditPage::AS_HOOK_ERROR_EXPECTED: // A hook function returned an error" and throws the sf_autoedit_fail at line 480. Versions are MW:1.25.1, CE 1.3, and SF 3.3.2. What I assume is happening is, SF goes to edit the page, but CE blocks it because of captcha.  If I turn off confirm edit or log in, it saves the page fine.


 * This is now tracked on Phabricator. Yaron Koren (talk) 20:23, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Added the code listed in the change and it looks like it works for editing forms. Thanks!  One problem I noticed that is still an issue, is editing using an  link.  For those it notifies the user that their IP will be logged and claims to succeed, but no changes are made or pages are created.  Before, these edits were allowed to be made without filling out the captcha, which is fine with me since they are more structured.  Any way we could have this behavior returned?  Thanks again Yaron!


 * I'm glad the last issue was fixed. This new one is now tracked on Phabricator too, here. Yaron Koren (talk) 15:23, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Horizontal code output from form?
Hello Does anyone know whether its possible to force a form to create horizontal code eg.

instead of

I don't want this on every form, so im not looking for a global setting. any ideas?


 * I don't think it's possible, unfortunately. Yaron Koren (talk) 18:14, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Save And Continue breaks multi instance forms with divs
Just a heads up, though this might be a bit specific... I have a form with multiple instances. Additional fields appear/disappear depending on your choice from a dropdown. Pressing save and continue and then changing your choice from the dropdown will load the fields as it should, but they're greyed out and not editable until you reload the page. SMW 1.6.2, SF 2.2.1

Automatic page creation "broken" with SMW's
On our wiki pages get created automatically with SMW's  (previously called  ) and. We use the ExternalData extension to load customer data into the wiki. When a customer is new the page will then be created automatically. This worked fine but stopped working in SMW 1.9.2. In this release the move was made from  to. I tested this on MW 1.23.9 and different SF versions, 2.8 and master.

Testing this in my home wiki (MW 1.24.1, SMW dev-master and SF 3.3.1) the same thing happens. Example with a property page called Property:Testname with the following content:
 * Has type:Has type::Page
 * Creates pages with form::Testcaseautofill

Test pages

 * Testname::Testcase1
 * Testname::Testcase2
 * Testname::Testcase3
 * Testname::Testcase4

After saving the page and running  the 4 pages get created automatically.

When I then delete Testcase1 and rebuild with: php rebuildData.php --no-cache -v and php runJobs.php The page Testcase1 does not get created. The property Testname actually has the value Testcase1 but with a red link. Even when I use the Data repair and upgrade function and run  the page Testcase1 does not get created.

I am pretty sure that  added pages to be created to the MW job Que which you could then "empty" by using. I am not sure why this is not working any more. It seems that SMW's  is "ignoring"   or SF as a whole or SF is not doing its "job".

Because of this "problem" it is not possible any more to get pages to be created automatically. The only way to do this in the example above is to refresh the Property:Testname page and run. I already reported this on GitHub (half way the discussion) because I noticed this behaviour during testing. It would be a shame when this "functionality" is lost. Is this something that can be fixed in SF or in SMW or both? Regards, --Felipe (talk) 12:27, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * The discussion on GitHub has progressed. Yaron, when time permits could you have a look at the comment from MWJames on GitHub? Is this part of a possible "solution" for the problem discussed here, if so is it something that can "easily" be achieved with SF? Thanks, and regards. --Felipe (talk) 12:26, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually, I'm planning to replace the "Creates pages with form" special property with a parser function, like was done with "Has default form" and "Has alternate form". That will remove the SMW-related issues, and will enable Cargo support as well. I'll try to get to that soon. Yaron Koren (talk) 13:34, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks. --Felipe (talk) 14:30, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

[SOLVED] Query for the page title in a query form
Hello,

how can I query for the page title in a query form? Since the page title is created via the first form field in the two-step-process, there is no manually created property behind it. I need to have a form field where I can search in the page titles. – I have the feeling I might just be missing something very obvious. –Zabien (talk) 16:52, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * You just need to have the template store the page name via a property (if you're using SMW) or field (if you're using Cargo). In either case, you can use the magic word. Yaron Koren (talk) 20:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * So I have to use e.g.  to be able to query for it later? Okay, that seems to be the obvious I've missed. Thought there might be an even more direct way. Thank you for the quick help! –Zabien (talk) 21:36, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I think that's the easiest way. Although using #set might be preferable, since you don't want to display a value to the screen. Yaron Koren (talk) 23:16, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Good point! I'll give this a try! Thanks heaps! –Zabien (talk) 10:21, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Missing values in "Semantic Property" dropdown box
I am using Mediawiki 1.25.2, Semantic MediaWiki 2.2.2, Semantic Forms 3.3.2 (2e5712c). I tried to create a template. The semantic property dropdown box only list 14 values. Even I add additional properties via Special:CreateProperty. Does it happen to your version? Any fix? --153.20.95.74 08:24, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I had restarted php-fpm and the problem went away, i.e., there is a cache issue. Is there a mean to force the update of cache? Also renamed properties (redirects were deleted too) also showed up in the list of values of Semantic Property --153.20.95.74 08:29, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't know - this might be a Semantic MediaWiki issue. The SF code is just calling an SMW function to get the list of properties. Yaron Koren (talk) 13:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I would like to confirm that even the property is deleted, the SWM function (please point me to the file or function as I am new to mediawiki and php) still return the deleted property.


 * That is a known SMW issue - I'm guessing that you can also see that same deleted property on the page Special:Properties. If so, you should ask the SMW developers about it. Yaron Koren (talk) 14:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * For a discussion about deleted properties/subjects (and its apparent reappearance), please have a look at the #1100 issue.--MWJames (talk) 14:59, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Using query string in #forminput
I have a form which has a property "Student ID" and I want this property to be filled from #forminput via query string and using value from the title of the page.



If I use form name "12345699A", the immediate URL is http://localhost/wiki/Special:FormStart?page_name=12345699A&form=Student&Student[Student+ID]=Student

What I want is http://localhost/wiki/Special:FormStart?page_name=12345699A&form=Student&Student[Student+ID]=12345699A

I do not know how to get or parse URL using the existing standard extension as I did not install Extension:UrlGetParameters.


 * I'm not completely sure I understand, but it sounds like you'd be better off using #formlink instead of #forminput, and a page name formula. Yaron Koren (talk) 14:40, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I tried #formlink just now, do not know how to enter the "Student ID". My original question can be simplified to

1) Enter 123456789A into the textbox

2) I want $forminput to generate the url http://localhost/wiki/Special:FormStart?page_name=12345699A&form=Student&Student[Student+ID]=12345699A instead of http://localhost/wiki/Special:FormStart?page_name=12345699A&form=Student&Student[Student+ID]=Student --Yoonghm (talk) 14:59, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * The specific thing you're asking about can't be done. However - if the student ID is always the page name, why do you need a form field for it at all? Can't you just always use the page name? Yaron Koren (talk) 15:03, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * The problem for beginner likes me is that there are too many features within mediawiki and its extensions, there is no other good reference except your book. I want to put the Student ID as a property as I cannot prevent people from changing it and can be used for semantic query. Okay, I will consider your suggestion. --Yoonghm (talk) 15:30, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Max size for properties
I would like to start a review site and store the reviews in properties. Yet even a comparably short review (800 words, 4500 signs) breaks the parser. What would be the recommendation in order to deal with this? I would like to add interviews with the length off 12(!) A4 pages into a property. Currently, I had to move all into a standard input field in order to avoid broken parser tags.

To give an example of what I talking about: http://adsol.oneyoudontknow.com/index.php/wiki/Anticosm_-_Anticosm
 * Top: the text added as a property (text)
 * Below: text added as a free field.

The lack of formatting is due c/p it from the bottom.

--Temptuousinsolence (talk) 18:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Is this a Semantic Forms question? Anyway, I don't think it's the size of that text that's causing the problem, but rather the fact that it contains square brackets. Yaron Koren (talk) 01:21, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Group pages (created via Semantic Form) in Category: according to other properties instead of page name
I have created several pages using Form:Student with the following page names.
 * 1111111A
 * 1111112B
 * 2222222C
 * 3333333D

These pages are in Students category.

Form:Student uses Template:Student which has the following properties

In the Category:Students page, these pages are grouped under 1, 2 and 3. How can I use Tutorial Class property to group them? --Yoonghm (talk) 02:18, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Constraining the user to use forms to create a page.
I want to constrain users the use the forms to create a new page.

In other world, users can't create new pages on my wiki. They can ONLY add new pages thought the form. Is there an easy way to do that ?

Thanks a lot.