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Protecting Template page gives Lua error: expandTemplate: template "pp-template" does not exist.

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IlseMul (talkcontribs)

I wanted to protect the Template:Shortcut. When I had set the protection, the page returned with this error:

Lua error: expandTemplate: template "pp-template" does not exist.

What is this about? Does this mean I need to use the LuaSandbox instead LuaStandAlone?

Also... what has this to do with Lua?

Thanks for the help!

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Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

The error seems to indicate you're using expandTemplate() somewhere to load {{pp-template}}, but {{pp-template}} doesn't exist on your wiki.

IlseMul (talkcontribs)

Okay.... Well, it's the template I downloaded from here. I thought that with export & import everything needed for the use of the page was exported. I guess I was wrong there. I'll have to figure out where it is used. The Template:Shortcut doesn't give any redlinked underlying templates, but maybe there's something else....

Was I wrong with the assumption that really everything is exported?

Thanks again for the help!

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Apparently Special:Export has some limitations when other templates are requested dynamically inside Lua modules. Probably hard to resolve, though.