Hi,

Can you explain how this would be used? What would be a sample value for
"Has field label format" - is it a template name, a function name, or
something else?

-Yaron

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Daniel Friesen <li...@danielfriesen.name>wrote:

> I was in need of something in Semantic Forms so I implemented a small
> new feature.
>
> My use case was countries. I wrote a country datatype that used country
> codes and displayed the localized country name on the wiki (factboxes,
> content areas, etc...).
> The issue of course was a limitation in Semantic Forms, values are used
> as labels in dropdowns, etc... and you can't customize them.
>
>
> So I implemented a small label setup that takes advantage of output
> formats in semantic types.
> If you use [[Has field label format::formatstring]] along with [[Allows
> value::]] then SF will pass that formatstring to the output format of
> the type for that property and use the formatted value as the label in
> the case of dropdowns, listboxes, multiple checkboxes, and radio boxes.
>
> Now that I think about it, a |label format= in the {{{field might be
> possible. Perhaps along with something like |label[value]= for when you
> are using |values=.
>
> --
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>
>
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