Hi all, Version 1.6 of Semantic Forms has been released. This is a fairly major new version, with a lot of additions and bug fixes. They are:
- there are now inputs for letting you select a category. Being able to select a category is a feature that people have requested since almost the beginning of Semantic Forms, but I always rejected it on the theory that users shouldn't be adding categories to pages, and that a page shouldn't belong to more than one category anyway. I still think that's usually the case, but there are a number of wikis, like LexWiki, that use categories as inputs because they're the only thing that matches the need: a hierarchical set of values. It dawned on me that there's no way now, and probably no way ever, that semantic properties will be able to generate a hierarchical form input, so that you can, for instance, choose whether to set a car to be of type "Ford" or "Ford Taurus", with the latter a subset of the former. So, there are now two new input types for forms that display a category tree: "category" and "categories". Both use the CategoryTree extension, which must be installed for these input types to work: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree The difference between the two input types is that "category" only lets you select one value, while "categories" lets you select many: the first uses radiobuttons, while the second uses checkboxes. I should note that I haven't changed my opinion, the subject of a recent thread, that a page should only have one category *that has a default form*. - the 'CreateClass' special page was added. This page provides a form for letting you create all the components of a single "class" - properties, template, form and category - in one place, at the same time. This should be helpful for people who want to get a wiki up and running quickly, including beginning users. It should be noted that the page provides very little flexibility compared to creating each component separately - you can't have more than one template in the form, for instance. - Samuel Lampa's addition of setting a default filename for file uploads has been added, with some modifications: if you add the field parameter "default filename" to an uploadable field, it will set the default name given to that file. Also, the value of this parameter can include a "<page name>" variable, which will get substituted with the name of the page being created or edited. - mandatory radiobutton and dropdown fields no longer have a "None" or blank option show up, if they're set with a default value. - remote autocompletion now works for wikis that use the new SMW database structure (i.e., most SMW wikis). Until now, it always used the old table structure, for no good reason. - a bug was fixed so that the 'Category' namespace can have a default form associated with it. - the time placed in the form for fields with a "default=now" setting is now set according to the wiki's time zone; thanks to Patrick Nagel for the fix. - if the user is creating a page that has already been deleted once or more, a warning message, with a list of previous deletions, appears at the top of the form, just as happens with the regular "edit" tab. - if a page has more than one default form associated with it, due to multiple categories, a warning message appears at the top of the "edit with form" tab. (This warning doesn't show up if the page has one default form from its category and a different one from its namespace - category always supersedes namespace.) - the #tooltip parser function defined in SMW now works in forms. - a typo introduced in version 1.5 was fixed, for handling form fields not defined in the template. - the extension produces a more helpful error message if SMW is not installed. - language support was added for Veps. -Yaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to semantic-forms@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to semantic-forms+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
