The problem: LinkedIn and Crunch base (see facebook page: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook) break up their data forms so that users can enter small amounts of information into different sections vs. all at once. My facebook research page looks like this: http://www.wikiwealth.com/private-venture:facebook. When a user sees how long my data form is they just exit the form without making changes.
Wish: Have the ability to easily break up long data forms into smaller sections. When a user saves that section, it is added to the entire page. Ideally, I would like data forms broken up by titles just like edit sections works.
Benefits: This wish encourages more contributions because it is less intimidating than entering all information at once. It also increases user experience, page views, and ad revenue.
I'm not sure how to accomplish this wish, but maybe combining the coding done on edit sections and anchor links would fix this problem.
Dave
Why not use several small forms? And connect them using a parent page?
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Unlikely because they use different technology.
That's for the devs to sort out (or not), not for you to worry about :)
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How does one create a work-around using small forms and connect them using a parent page? I've been trying to experiment, but nothing is working.
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I'll try something out. Keep you posted…
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I linked two forms in this little site…http://who-did-you-love.wikidot.com/… I made it to illustrate that it is possible to expand a form with as many entries as you wish for. But it off course also works for just one.
So on that site… if you consider the me-pages as step1 in a profile for example, than you can imagine that the girlfriend-pages are step2.
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Now I understand.
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Bump. Multiple forms with a parent isn't an option for me, so it would be so, so helpful to have section editing if that's possible.
My need is a page for each day, split into 6 sections (that could be edited simultaneously, a la edit sections) with at least 8 entries per section. There are many people working on one daily document, so full-page editing is out. I'd also end up with 48 new pages created each day.
The only other way I can think to solve my problem is if pages could automatically expire after a certain date, so the 48 pages per day wouldn't become a clutter problem.
i understand that you do not want the "easy" method of using parenting of equal dataform pages hanging under the day .. with their own "story:#..#//edit/true" link aside the header… this is on one side easy to maintan, but on the other side the growing ( autonumbered) count pages per day are a good argument.
And the other idea - to have the "edit sections" button as a stand alone button near the header is not soo good?
Or is there a different behaviour of dataform pages - which does not allow headers - with sections and their editing - as usual?
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Yes, dataforms behave differently to "normal" wiki pages and edit sections does not work with them.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Right. No sections allowed. And only one form per page, so I can't split it that way.
I tried to work around it by having one form that contains two sets of data (story1, author1 … story2, author2 …) and then display the content in separate sections. It displays correctly, but I still can't edit the sections :(
Example of what I tried:
I would like to make a test of my "easy" implementation on our http://community-playground.wikidot.com/ "community-playground". means - to build the _template for "lit": categroy, , the autonumering of it and the edit buttons on the showing "days" with the childs of it..
OK?
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I am very courious to see how this works… look forward to your test Helmuti
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I have an idea for this that uses CSS and doesn't require parenting or separate categories. I'll give it a go tonight and see if I can get it going.
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
I start on http://community-playground.wikidot.com/storyboard the overview of this implement.
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Now have a look on the storyboard ( and the source!) - the ground/basis dataform is a very small one without any comment-possibility ( i would put it on the _template! )
Feel free to experiment with this storyboard and insert some comemnts if you want.
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