Best Practices for Forms and Templates

Links

• https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Properties_and_types

Conventions

• Use Sentence case property names
• Use verb phrases (like "Has capital") - see https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Property_naming

You can assign the type of a property and restrict a property's value by creating a page for that property.

This is a property of type TextProperty "Has type" is a declarative property and can only be used on a property or category page..

The allowed values for this property are:
* IdeaProperty "Allows value" is a declarative property and can only be used on a property or category page.
* In developmentProperty "Allows value" is a declarative property and can only be used on a property or category page.
* DraftProperty "Allows value" is a declarative property and can only be used on a property or category page.

Also, the following create a link to a property page and show its information:

 [[Property:Has_paper_status]]
 {{Property:Has_paper_status}}
 

Notes

Check that you did the following:

• Put the category in the template itself
• Make sure that there is a default form associated with the template

 {{#default_form:McNair Projects}}
 [[category:McNair Projects]]
 

Use simple assignment whenever possible:

| label6       = Start Date
| data6        =  

If you have to use an array ref, here's the syntax:

| label5      = Owner
| data5       =