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 [[Has type::Text]].
 
 The allowed values for this property are:
 * [[Allows value::Idea]]
 * [[Allows value::In development]]
 * [[Allows value::Draft]]
 

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        = [[Start date::{{{Start date|}}}]] 
 

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

 | label5      = Owner
 | data5       = {{#arraymap:{{{Owner|}}}|,|x|[[Owner::x]]}}