Hi, I am amazed, thank you for your great work! Just one doubt about this passage:
> - 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. This doesn't mean that we can now have FCK editor into fields (input type=textbox), right? And another question, but I'll leave that to another thread, this one is more for saying thank you! Davide On May 28, 2009, at 1:02 AM, Yaron Koren wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
