Thread:Semantic-mediawiki.org:Community portal/Is it possible to specify and obtain another pages properties in a query results table?/reply (7)

> Would SMW ever support such a scenario out of box let's say that it won't ever require such a heavy and hard to understand template scenario as mine?

I really haven't looked at what your doing but of course the template format is given to users to do things that are generally hard to commodities because any special handling comes at the cost of extra code, maintenance, and possible errors that have not been uncovered by the time a feature is introduced.

> Probably something being able to "peek deeper" across several pages?

One would need a compelling use case that is generalizable together with a clear guideline of what a "peek deeper" across several pages entails without introducing a performance bottleneck.

I don't know whether resolving a property chain on a printrequest (|?Foo.Bar.Foobar) would be worthwhile considering or not.

> I'm abusing the SMW facilities?

Well, I have seen worse ;-) but of course sometimes one should think about what kind of data are stored and where. It can be easier to store the output of a template as property value and use this as starting point instead of doing everything ad hoc and dynamic.