Actually, let me take the first one back: you could create templates to define property and category pages, and create corresponding forms for those; it wouldn't be possible to do the same thing for template and form pages, though. -Yaron
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
