Forms: Difference between revisions

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With the Forms extension, you can easily create any "content type" in your wiki, and use a form-based interface to edit/modify the content. This is a major win for usability of the wiki for editors and readers alike.

For example, we use the Organization form to enter organizations into our wiki. Then we can display that information in multiple ways: like this map or the table version.

But that's not all. Each form is linked to a template which takes the input and turns the data into properties which imbue meaning and context into the content for intelligence.

Other forms on this wiki include the forms for People and Feature

Training

https://demo.QualityBox.us/wiki/Training#tab=Page_Forms

References

Installation

smw:Maps/Installation

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-With Semantic MediaWiki and the Semantic Forms extension, you can easily create any content type in your wiki, and use a form-based interface to edit/modify the content.
+With the Forms extension, you can easily create any "content type" in your wiki, and use a form-based interface to edit/modify the content.  This is a major win for usability of the wiki for editors and readers alike.
-For example, at the Creative Commons website, they created a "Case Study" content type. By using the form (or [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Template:Case_Study|the template behind it]), you get content like https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Case_Studies/Cory_Doctorow
+For example, we use the [[:Form:Organization|Organization]] form to enter organizations into our wiki. Then we can display that information in multiple ways: like [[Local_experts|this map]] or [[Local_experts#tab=Free_Directory|the table]] version.
-Once the content is saved in the wiki, you'll no doubt want to have a way to present that content to users in a friendly way.  Take a look at this "overview" page https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Case_Studies
+But that's not all. Each form is linked to a template which takes the input and turns the data into '''properties''' which imbue meaning and context into the content for intelligence.
-{{@todo}} The Creative Commons wiki has changed and you can no longer easily see the details of the templates and methods they use.  Build up the examples here for better clarity.
+Other forms on this wiki include the forms for [[:Category:People|People]] and [[:Category:Feature|Feature]]
+== Training ==
+# https://demo.QualityBox.us/wiki/Training#tab=Page_Forms
+== References ==
+* http://workingwithmediawiki.com/book/chapter17.html
+* http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Page_Forms
+* [[smw:Help:Setting_values]]
+* [[smw:Help:Inline_queries]]
+* [[smw:Help:List_of_datatypes]]
+* [[smw:Help:Leaflet_format]]
+* [[smw:Extension:Maps/Displaying_maps]]
+* [[smw:Help:Import_vocabulary/Step-by-step_on_how_to_import_a_vocabulary]]
+* [[smw:Help:Import_vocabulary_(Example_of_importing_FOAF_vocabulary)]]
+=== Installation ===
+* [[smw:Maps/Installation]]
 [[Category:Wiki]]
 [[Category:Semantic]]