2009/1/22 Yaron Koren <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
> No, the meta-forms (I call them "helper forms") are all just directly coded
> in PHP. If you think a "free text" field in each of them would be
> worthwhile, maybe it's worth adding. In any case, if you hit "preview" in
> any of them instead of "save", you can add whatever text you want to the
> created page before saving.

Could you create them as instances of SF? or are they technically
different? I guess the latter given the following discussion.


> There's no way to have a single "back" button press work, because currently
> for all forms, helper and non-helper alike, SF uses an "interim page" that
> takes the user's input, creates wiki-text out of it, then pretends to be the
> regular MediaWiki edit form and submits itself. If someone knows of a way to

Is this when you could collect external data? I'm thinking
specifically about querying PubMed for citation data that could be
piped back into the page... Although that is probably a different
topic (building an 'EndNote' wiki).


> get a single "back" press working, though, I'd love to hear it, since the
> current system is not ideal.
> -Yaron

Cheers,


> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Dan Bolser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just started using SF on one of my projects. I was curious
>> about the 'meta-forms' that are built in to SF, namely the
>> CreateProperty, CreateTemplate, CreateForm, and CreateCategory forms.
>> Are these forms implemented 'within' the SF framework? i.e. are they
>> valid forms in the Form namespace?
>>
>> The reason I ask is because I would like to add a 'free text' field to
>> each of these 'create' forms to encourage documentation of the created
>> properties, templates etc. Is there a simple form definition for these
>> forms that I can edit to add this field?
>>
>> Also, is it possible to allow 'back' to work correctly after adding a
>> property using the "Create a property" form, for example? I have to
>> 'double back' if I want to add another property to the wiki.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the cool extension!
>>
>> Dan.
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>

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