Hi, No, they're technically different; and no, this has nothing to do with external data.
-Yaron On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dan Bolser <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
