Two thoughts:
- I would recommend looking at the Special:CreateClass page in SF as well -
it uses the job queue to create multiple pages, so it's probably even more
relevant than the Replace Text extension.
- Unfortunately, I doubt there's any way to check with 100% certainty
whether all the relevant pages have the same value for a given field... even
parsing each page every time may not always work.
-Yaron
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Laurent Alquier <laur...@alquier.org>wrote:
> I want that !
>
> Is it going to behave like multiple edits apps and preserve already
> existing values ?
>
> As for Ajax vs HTTP, I would favor keeping it as simple as possible. There
> are already many conflicts between javascript from multiple extensions
> (headertabs, maps, forms, etc...).
>
> - Laurent
>
> On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Hauke Pribnow wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > I am currently working on an extension to Semantic MediaWiki that should
> > enable the user to edit a bunch of pages at once through a user-friendly
> > interface as provided by Yaron Koren's Semantic Forms extension.
> >
> > To demonstrate the main idea of how the GUI should look and behave like
> > I threw together an example page:
> > http://home.arcor.de/t.mod/multieditexample/
> > (I know - the code there is still pretty bad. It'll be fixed in the real
> > extension, I promise.)
> >
> > Concerning the use of JavaScript: I want to let the user decide if
> > he/she wants to use the Ajax-style Web 2.0 in-page dialog that currently
> > pops up when clicking on the "Edit selected page" button, or - as an
> > alternative - if he/she prefeers Web 1.5 where the button will simply
> > trigger a HTTP POST and send the user to a special "Edit selected pages"
> > page.
> >
> > Currently I'm still in the process of gathering information of how to
> > actually implement this extension. Yaron gave me the suggestion to use
> > the Page Object Model extension, lch on IRC pointed me to the Replace
> > Text extension (especially interesting because it's using the job
> > queue). Do you have any other additional suggestion where I can save
> > some work? (Of course I'll also try to re-use as much code as possible
> > from Yaron's Forms extension.)
> >
> >
> > Besides this, I have a more specific question: Since I want to make
> > everything as user-friendly as possible, I plan to also implement
> > checkboxes à la popular MP3 tag editors to let the user decide which
> > fields should acutally be overwritten when submitting a multi edit page.
> > (See this for an example of a typical MP3 tag multi edit interface:
> > http://www.applelinks.com/images/uploads/kirk/itunesbatch3.gif )
> >
> > Therefore it would be great if my extension could automatically
> > determine if some or all fields of the selected pages contain the exact
> > same value. If this is the case the according value should already be
> > pre-entered in the form field and possibly also the
> > "overwrite-this-field" checkbox should already be ticked when a user
> > clicks on "Edit selected pages". Otherwise the form fields should be
> > empty of course.
> >
> > The question is: How to do that?
> >
> > Since the SFStore doesn't want extension developers to send SQL
> > statements directly to the database (for a good reason of course) I'm
> > looking for other ways to deal with the situation. I already though of
> > temporarily adding unique special properties/fields to all selected
> > pages to be able to query the number of pages with that unique
> > property/field that have the same field content as the field of the
> > first selected page. Something in this direction.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions that are somehow better/more elegant?
> >
> > Thanks for any input already in advance!
> >
> >
> > Hauke
> >
> >
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