2009/6/21 Chris Croome <ch...@webarchitects.co.uk>:
>
> Hi
>
> On Sun 21-Jun-2009 at 11:27:14PM +0100, Dan Bolser wrote:
>>
>> 2009/6/21 Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > 1) No - you'd need some script to convert bare category tags into
>> > field values within template calls (which is the only type of data
>> > that Semantic Forms can edit).
>
> Ah, OK, thanks.
>
>> > 2) No - another possibility, though, is to make the Image: (or
>> > File:) namespace editable by a form, so people can afterwards add
>> > categories to the uploaded file.
>
> Great, I'll have a play with that.
>
>> > 3) No. (I see a trend here. :) ) It might make sense to have a "hide
>> > this category from Semantic Forms" indicator for categories; the
>> > Semantic Drilldown extension somewhat has need for a similar
>> > feature.
>
> OK, that feature would help me out, in the meantime I'll see if I can
> bodge it somehow...
>
>> > 4) That seems like a fairly elegant way to do it. Another option is
>> > probably to find the name of that language value, then turn it
>> > blank, by editing that value's MediaWiki page. (I hope that made
>> > sense.)
>
> It didn't make sense, but don't worry about it :-)
>
>> > 5) By "comers", did you mean "corners"? In any case, I can't think
>> > of another way to do it.
>
> Sorry I can't spell 'commas'...
>
>> I guess you mean 'commas'. Indeed, the above code will generate a
>> string of commas because the comma is the default delimiter for the
>> output of the arraymap function.
>
> Right.
>
>> Just do it like this... "{{#arraymap:{{{Category}}}|,|x|[[Category:x]]
>> | }}
>>
>> Which specifies a blank output delimiter.
>
> Ah, great that solves it, I had tried adding newlines and that dodn't
> work, I don't know why I didn't try a space.
>
> It might be worth documenting how to use an arraymap for multiple
> categories on the Semantic Forms page on mediawiki.org -- it took me
> quite a few hours to work this out...I was wondering if you would write a new 'tip' on the http://smw.referata.com page? As I said, I haven't been looking at SF for categorization, so it would be really useful for me if you created something like a quick start 'tip' :-) All the best, Dan. http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Special:BrowseData/Tips >> BTW, it is possible to use the MW API to list the categories a page is >> in, therefore it should be possible to build a 'category adder form' >> independently of SF. I haven't played with these features, so I'm not >> sure how easy it would be to integrate. Where is a good example of how >> to use SF to categorize pages? > > Ah, that sounds good, I'll do some more investigation... > > Thanks again for all the help. > > Chris > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
