Thank you, "textarea with autocomplete" has definitely improved my situation.
I'm not sure how I missed it in the documents - I consult that page regularly.
I actually don't want to go with linefeeds for delimiters because a long list
will make the form look even longer that it is... and it's not a short form. I
also plan to include a preview near the input so users can see what pages exist
and which will be redlinked. This should help insure that the users have
specified what they think they have.
Thanks again. Any other thoughts on making my interface slick, pleasant and
powerful are appreciated.
Thanks,
Frank
From: yaro...@gmail.com [mailto:yaro...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yaron Koren
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:16 PM
To: DeRosa, Frank
Cc: semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Optimizing the Semantic Forms UI
Hi Frank,
You should definitely upgrade all your software. But to answer your specific
questions:
- for suggestions/autocompletion, you should change your input type to
"textarea with autocomplete".
- for having newlines as delimiters, just set "delimiter=\n".
-Yaron
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:10 PM, DeRosa, Frank
<derosa...@battelle.org<mailto:derosa...@battelle.org>> wrote:
Hi, my name is Frank and I fairly new Semantic MediaWiki developer. I would
appreciate help with designing the interface for some semantic forms and a
varied audience of users. My setup includes MediaWiki 1.15, SMW 1.5.6, and
Semantic Forms 2.3.2. I understand that these versions may limit my options.
Upgrades may be possible. These are the only versions I have used, so please
bear with me if I am out of date.
My forms will be collecting multiple values for properties. I've started with
the basic method, fields that look like this:
{{{field|FacilityEvents|input
type=textarea|autogrow|rows=4|cols=74|property=Hosted|delimiter=;}}}
It works - no complaints there. Here's how I am looking to improve it:
* Suggestions: I tried using the "values from category=" attribute in
the field tag and it still doesn't suggest values. I assume this is a
limitation of the textarea. This is important as I'd like to avoiding typos
and other errors of entry and save keystrokes on long names which are already
in the wiki.
* Simplicity of use: semicolon delimiters are easy enough for me, but
my non-technical users may happily separate values with line breaks.
Instructions will be provided but I'm looking to user-proof this aspect.
* Ease of use for lots of data entry. Using a textarea is about as
easy as it gets, but if other features get added (like suggestions) I realize I
may have to sacrifice this ultra-simple method.
I'm open to suggestions, extensions (off the shelf or custom),
JavaScript/jQuery or most other alternatives. I'm happy to look at resources
or examples in the wild or anything else. User participation and satisfaction
is key on this project. To collect lots of good data, it's worth it to invest
in the best UI that I can muster.
Thanks to everyone for the amazing tools you have developed and the support
given on this mailing list.
Thanks again - your help is appreciated!
Frank DeRosa
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