Oh, that's interesting. I was envisioning that the link text could look
like "Create this page", as I noted in my previous email. Perhaps it would
be ideal to have two different link text parameters for #formredlink, for
use when the page either does or doesn't exist.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Hermann Schwärzler <
hermann.schwaerz...@uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi Yaron,
>
> probably I am doing things not in the best possible way. :-)
>
> This is my use-case: I have images that have a page where a title and up
> to three keywords can be assigned to them. For the keywords I have a
> custom namespace "Keyword" (to avoid possible name clashes with
> image-page titles).
>
> In the image-page template I show the keywords like this:
> {{#formredlink:target=Keyword:{{{keyword1}}}|link
> text={{{keyword1}}}|form=Keyword}}
>
> That means that for not yet existing keywords I see a red-link with the
> keyword as link-text. For existing keywords I see a blue link with
> "Keyword:keyword" as link-text because my "link text" parameter is
> ignored and the "target" parameter is used in this case - which looks
> "ugly" and is not the way I think it should be.
> I found this strange and made the change to the code.
> How else could I get what I want (to see just the keyword with a link to
> the keyword-page in the Keyword-namespace)?
>
> To turn the tables: What's the use case for the way it is right now?
> The information about the existence of the page the link points to is
> already encoded in the colour of the link, isn't it?
>
> Greetings
> Hermann
>
> On 05/29/2015 12:49 AM, Yaron Koren wrote:
> > Hi Hermann,
> >
> > That was done on purpose - the idea was that #formredlink has two
> > different behaviors, depending on whether or not the page in question
> > exists. If it doesn't, then of course you see a red link, pointing to a
> > form, with text that possibly looks like "Create this page". If it does,
> > then there's just a normal link to that page, and users wouldn't know
> > that there's anything special going on behind the scenes. What's your
> > use case for wanting the same link text to show up whether or not the
> > page exists? And what could such text be?
> >
> > -Yaron
> >
> > [...]
>
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