Help:Forms
From Open Energy Information
A form is a way for users to input data on the wiki that can then be used to display data on a Template, "the form feeds the template"
Creation
Forms are a standard way for the wiki to store data whose content is designed to be transcluded (embedded) inside other pages. Forms follow a convention that the name is prefixed with "Form:", assigning it to that namespace. Therefore you can create them like any other wiki page.
Usage
Forms are wiki pages which can be used to enter data:
{{#set:Page has default form=MRE Project}}is included in the template associated with form, but only if we wish for them to be connected when a user hits "Edit With Form"
Control form inclusion
You can control form inclusion by the use of <noinclude> and
<includeonly> tags.
Anything between <noinclude> and </noinclude> will be processed and displayed only when the forms's page is being viewed directly.
Possible applications are:
- Categorising forms
- Interlanguage links to similar forms in other languages
- Explanatory text about how to use the form
- Links to pages that were created with this form
See also
- Help:External searches – a template special use case example
- Help:Magic words – fancy stuff you may find in some templates
- Help:Parser functions in templates
- Help:Templates
- MetaWiki: Help:Template
- MetaWiki: Help:Embed page – embedding pages from namespaces other than
Template:.