Help:Semantic Forms for selecting Categories
| Semantic extension(s): | Page Forms |
| Further extension(s): | -/- |
| Keyword(s): | category |
Description:
Extension "Page Forms"Allows to create and use forms for adding and editing pages with and without semantic data extension can be used for selecting multiple categories using a form, to do this you need to create two pages and you will probably want to enable the edit with form feature.
Form:Categories[edit]
The Form:Categories is used to generate the edit with form page and it places code like this into the page it is used to edit:
{{Category
|Category=Category Name 1, Category Name 2, Category Name 3
}}
And this is the code to generate the multiple select form:
{{{field |Category |input type=categories |top category=Top_Category |height=200 }}}
The Top_Category being the start of the category tree.
Template:Categories[edit]
The Template:Categories generates the category listing in the page:
[[Category:Category Name 1]] [[Category:Category Name 2]] [[Category:Category Name 3]]
From the code generated by the Form:Categories.
This is the code to transform the comma separated list of categories into the format needed to place the page into the categories:
{{#arraymap: {{{Category}}} |, |@@@@ |[[Category:@@@@]] | }}
