Hi all, Version 1.7 of Semantic Forms has been released. Before I get to the details, I want to thank Ontoprise, who sponsored the development of this version; it's a great relief to me to be able to have this core development work paid for, so hats off to them.
So - this is the first time the SF version number has skipped right from one "sub-decimal" to the next. There are a number of important new developments that justified that change. This version has the following changes and additions: - the special page 'RunQuery' was added. This page lets you run a query that's contained within a template. Technically, there's nothing query-specific about the page: it's just a page that lets you enter data into a form and view the resulting page without saving anything; though in practice, I assume this would only be used for queries. People have asked for a while now about adding querying to Semantic Forms; I always turned down the idea because SF edits templates, and I assumed a query system would have to be a different mechanism. I didn't realize that querying could just be done using the same form-template system; thanks to Philip Kinlen for that important insight. You can see an example of this querying in action here: http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Special:RunQuery/Item_query (Note that the query is case-sensitive, due to SMW's "::~" operator being case-sensitive: that's annoying, and maybe the solution is to change SMW's handling.) - the FCKeditor can now work on a free text input that's placed among the fields of a template; thanks to Eugene Mednikov for the fix. - also, FCKeditor, when it's installed, works now with all versions (I think) of Internet Explorer. - for pages created by forms, you can now have only the page's free text, and not any of its template calls, show up when the page is viewed, and have the template calls hidden within a "<noinclude>" tag. This is done using a new parameter to the '{{{info}}}' tag, 'includeonly free text'. This is important for pages that get transcluded in other pages, whether they're templates or anything else; so that the semantic properties of the original page won't get carried over to the new page. People tried achieving this before in various hack-like ways; now there's a way to do it without a hack. Thanks to Daniel Hansch of Ontoprise for the excellent patch for this feature. - the default size for text inputs for fields that are lists was increased to 100; which should have been done a long time ago. Especially since 100 was what the documentation said. :) - the "edit with form" tab is now named "create with form" when the page doesn't exist yet; to match the "edit" tab now being similarly called "create" in recent versions of MediaWiki. - newlines can now be added to the "new delimiter" argument for #arraymap and #arraymaptemplate, using "\n". This was possible for a long time before for the "delimiter" argument, but not for "new delimiter", for no good reason. Now you can have newlines in both (or all four, that is). - Semantic Forms now adds some of its special pages (such as 'CreateProperty', 'CreateTemplate' etc.) to the 'AdminLinks' special page, defined by the Admin Links extension. For those who don't know this extension, it can serve as a "control panel" for many of the various SMW-related extensions; you can read about it here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Admin_Links - the feature added in version 1.6, of a form, when it adds a page that was previously deleted, showing a warning message at the top, crashed on older versions of MediaWiki which didn't define the required classes: this has been fixed. -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
