https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28260
Summary: Querying form variables
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: SemanticForms
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
I would like to use the values in a preloaded page to control the display of
the form, but I don't see how to query those values in my form when the page
has not yet been created. The values could be stored by the form's template and
then queried using #ask, but that's not possible until after the page is
created (and sure would be inefficient in many cases). I'm wondering if one
approach is a new SF parser function to query those variables specified in the
query string or in preloaded data, eg
<nowiki>{{#formvar:templatename|varname}}</nowiki>. Maybe there's a workaround
for the time being?
This new feature would eliminate many many forms that are merely minor
variations on a theme, e.g. making a field mandatory that is usually optional.
I note that if the category were an input, then the form could look up the
category and easily format those fields corresponding to its data model.
Thanks.
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