Making semantic forms

This page documents making semantic forms in this wiki.

List of pages used for making a form and infobox for the Private: namespace

Make a Private:page with databox

Make a Private:Page by entering the name of the page you wish to make, or the name of an already existing page. You must start the name of the page with Private:. Then click 'create or edit'.

Logbook

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Extension added

Activated in Semantic Bundle
In the file LocalSettings.php in the main MediaWiki directory, add the following line below the Semantic MediaWiki extension line (both the main 'include_once' line and the 'enableSemantics' line):

include_once "$IP/extensions/SemanticForms/SemanticForms.php";

Using #forminput to make new pages with a form

See more here:^[1]

Make a new page by entering the name of an already existing or new page. Then click 'create or edit' and the form will be added to the new or existing page.

Form=Name of form

{{#forminput:form=|size=|default value=|button text=|query string=''query string parameters''|autocomplete on category=|autocomplete on namespace=|remote autocompletion|placeholder=|popup}}

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Combobox input in form

We added the code input type=combobox to the field definition in the Form:Private databox page in the field Copyright status. The combobox works.^[2]

Making a model class

This was done so we can see the codes that are generated for each of the fields that were made with different properties, types and values. To see this, go to the various pages based on the class 'Model' (for example Form:Model, Template:Model.

References

External links to pages that we used

[1] Extension:Semantic_Forms/Linking_to_forms

[2] MediaWiki>Semantic forms>Combobox input

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