Yes, alot of letters :) Thanks for the reply. I am wondering if there
could be a better method that doesn't rely on (what I am hearing) is
an arbitrary ordering of categories assigned to the page? Maybe what
I'm thinking of is a special property that can be assigned to a P(age)
-- call it: has Primary Category, or something -- that indirectly
calls out which form is to be used to edit the P(age)... Again,,
thanks for the reply.

On Mar 11, 12:38 pm, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow, that's a lot of letters. :) If I understand the question: there's a
> separate table in the MediaWiki database that holds each page's categories;
> that's where Semantic Forms looks, until it finds the first one that has a
> form associated with it (if it can't find one, as you guessed, it goes on to
> the namespace). I don't know how the order of categories in that table gets
> set, but I wouldn't count on them always showing up in the same order.
>
> -Yaron
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, John McClure <[email protected]>wrote:
>
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>
>
>
> > It seems that the form selected for editing a page is based on (a) the
> > first form found to be associated with a category assigned to the page
> > (b) the default form for the page's namespace. Is this correct?
>
> > I'm having no problems creating page P in namespace NS using form F2,
> > because the link [[form:F2]] is directly invoked. F2 is not the
> > default form for NS, rather F1 is, but F2 is the default form for C2,
> > the first category assigned to P (C2 is a subcategory of C1, whose
> > default form is F1). C2 is assigned to P via T2, the first template
> > invoked within P.
>
> > When P is edited. F2 is displayed, exactly right. But I am wondering
> > if F2 is being selected only because T2 happens to be the first
> > template specified within P. If it should be moved, say, to the bottom
> > of P following some other templates that specify other categories to
> > be affixed to P, categories that each have a default form: would that
> > have an effect on which form is displayed for editing P?
>
> > Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
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