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This would be really useful for something like Brunhilda's brainchild: http://albums-template.wikidot.com/
Currently, we can create links like
[/category:temp-page-name/edit/true Create A New Page]
to create pages in a given autonumbered category without prompting for a title.
But we don't have the capability to set the parent or other options available to us in the NewPage module. It would be really useful to have a way to create a new page without the need for an input box to be completed first and to be able to use all of the NewPage module options.
-Ed
Community Admin
I've been thinking the same for the last few days. It'd be nice to have a link, "Start a new thread" instead of the input box and button.
An other way of doing this would be to pass the parent and tags as URL arguments.
Portfolio
I thought of that too. I even tried it hoping it might be an undocumented feature.
Community Admin
Ed, it should work. If you create a page using the NewPage module, look up at the URL and you will notice that settings like the page's title, and other settings, are in the title.
For example, when creating a new skin (aka. theme) on my CycloDS website, I get this URL:
http://cyclods.wikidot.com/skin:elvis-skin/edit/true/title/Elvis%20skin/tags/music/parentPage/download%3Askin
(Entered as tags="music")
(Entered as parent="download:skin")
But I agree, a button-only NewPage module would be even better in most circumstances.
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Thanks, Shane. I see that my usage was wrong. I tried /parent instead of /parentPage.
Is this documented somewhere? I just scoured Wikidot and the only reference I can find is in a discussion regarding the event calendar. (Ashe, if you're listening, how did you uncover this nugget?)
This is really helpful until the Wikidot genie grants my wish!
Thanks again,
-Ed
Community Admin
Probably in the same way that we uncovered the /edit/true and /tags/your-tags nuggets. You use a NewPage module to create a page as you would want it to, create a page, and extract the URL of the page it creates.
Hi Ed,
When I read this, I immediately down-rated it, because it is something you can do with a URL — as Shane points out, you can set the parent and tags of a page via the URL.
But then I realised — this is way too complicated for non-gurus. A user should be able to use the NewPage module and simply disable the text field as you point out.
Therefore, I rate up.
I've changed the forum-template to now use this technique to create threads. It is really much nicer, just a neat link in a table. I assume it's possible to style links as buttons if needed.
See http://projects.wikidot.com/section:Unclassified.
I'll make sure this technique is documented.
Portfolio
This discussion has been very enlightening!
One caveat I found is that it appears /edit/true/… must be the first parameter in the link, Otherwise the editor doesn't pop open. In the minimal testing I did with the other parameters, it doesn't seem to matter what order they are in. I also found that you have to be careful where you use %20 inside a link used in a live template (it seems to work fine to separate tags, but not something like /title/%%category%%%20%%name%%. Finally, /title/%%title%% breaks the link if the page title has a space in it.
These are all things I should be able to work around.
Now if I could figure out how to do the equivalent of [[image URL :first]] I'd be really happy! (I know, that's 2 different source parameters and won't work). What I'm really looking for is a way to display the first (and in my case the only) image that's located on a different page.
Thanks again for the discussion, guys. It was really helpful.
-Ed
Community Admin
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
This would be very useful!
…. And here is the weneed!
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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Proposal for the syntax? Make a design sketch, if you like and I'll chuck it into the issue tracker.
Portfolio
OK, here is my proposal. Edit it as you see fit!
http://blog.wikidot.com/wiki:extending-image-source-attributes
Pieter, I just noticed that you need to make the wiki: category autonumbered. The design proposal I just made had a page name of new-wiki (which your create link uses), but the page was not autonumbered after saving which will obviously cause some conflicts if we're not paying attention. :)
-Ed
Community Admin
Adding it now
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I'll mark this as _done, because I created a CSI specifically for this purpose here :)