Issuepedia:Form Templates

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Overview

Form Templates is a tool (well, actually a combination of tools) which make it easier to enter data into Issuepedia in a useful way. The pilot form, Issuepedia:Form.link.news, simplifies the process of creating a page for storing data about a news or opinion link. The resulting pages are categorized in such a way that they show up, nicely formatted, on the pages for which they have been tagged. (The process is still a little awkward; improvements will be ongoing.)

The Form Templates tool is actually a combination of the following tools:

• the Simple Forms extension
• the CreatePage special page, written specifically for this purpose
• several other extensions which help with the automatic display of tagged pages

This will all be documented eventually at greater length on HTYP.

Demonstration

Fill in this form with made-up answers (think of MadLibs):

{{#form:target=newpage|method=GET| }}

Your name:	{{#input:name=who}}
Your organization:	{{#input:type=select | name=org | pretty good reasonable a bit sloppy like Cosmo Fishhawk a complete pigsty }}
Favorite topic:	{{#input: type = select | name = what | value = {{#request:what}} | Stuff Things Whatever Miscellaneous }}
An adjective:	{{#input:name=adj}}
Write some sentences: {{#input:name=comments|type=textarea}} {{#input:type=hidden|name=title|value=Special:CreatePage}} {{#input:type=hidden|name=tpltpage|value=Issuepedia:Form Templates/template demo 1}} {{#input:type=hidden|name=nametplt|value=Sandbox - form demo - <<adj>> <<what>>}} {{#input:type=submit|value=Preview}}{{#input:type=reset|value=-clear-}}