New wiki page types

[rhowlett]

Is it possible to click on a link and have a new page of a certain type open? The type of the page would depend on the template used.

Ideally the user interface would allow for the creation of new wiki page types.

[SteveB]

I'm not sure what you mean. Your question is somewhat ambiguous. Can you go into more detail?

[rhowlett]

Ok lets say that I have a template that formats a page for Product Information. Currently I create a new page, select 'Template:Product Information' from the drop down and insert it.

I would prefer to have the option of creating a new page with the template applied with as little user intervention required as possible. Perhaps wiki.template might be what I need?

[SteveB]

Are all you product information pages sub-pages of the same page? In 1.10, we're adding a mechanism that a parent page can set a content tempalte for newly created child pages. For instance, you would set the sub-page template to be Template:Product_Information. Then each time someone clicks 'New Sub-Page', it would start with the contents of the Template:Product_Information page.

Will that address your use case?

[rhowlett]

Yes that would be perfect in fact! Looking forward to using it...

[mdn01]

Are all you product information pages sub-pages of the same page? In 1.10, we're adding a mechanism that a parent page can set a content tempalte for newly created child pages. For instance, you would set the sub-page template to be Template:Product_Information. Then each time someone clicks 'New Sub-Page', it would start with the contents of the Template:Product_Information page.

Steve,

Doesn't look like this new feature actually made it into the Jay Cooke release (not listed on new features and I tried naming a new template as described above but didn't work). Are plans to have such a page-specific content template feature incorporated into a release in the near future? This would be extremely useful for us.

Thanks,

- Marc

[SteveB]

We changed the approach. Instead of using a template type that would be magically inherited, we added the wiki.create with which you can achieve the same effect.

For example, the following will embed a button that will create a new page for you with a specified template. The benefit of this approach is that you can embed several different buttons to suit your needs instead of being limited that whatever pre-defined template type the parent page happens to have had.

{{wiki.create("Add product", _, "Product_Information")}}

[mhoydis]

This new approach doesn't allow you to specify a Page Title for the newly created page. That is lame
When you use wiki.create, the newly created page has a title of "Page Title" which must be manually edited. That still makes page creation from a template a 2 step process, so nothing has been improved IMHO.

I have a current situation where I use web.link to create a page with a dynamically created title.
{{ web.link(page.path.."/"..date.year(date.now).."-"..date.month(date.now).."-"..date.day(date.now)..", "..date.dayname(date.now)..", Second Shift","Create today's shiftnote page for Second Shift.") }}
I want to combine that ability with the automatic insertion of a template. Without both, it's still a two step process.


Umm I guess I posted this yesterday here...
http://forums.opengarden.org/showthread.php?t=2828

[mdn01]

Great! That will definitely work for our purposes and thanks, by the way, for the prompt reply and excellent new release.

mhoydis does have a point regarding allowing an option to specify a Page and/or Display Title for the newly created page. What about adding a third 'button' option to also include a text entry field (e.g. no button, show button, button with text entry with ability to specify default) for the Page and/or Display Title? I think that might pretty cleanly resolve this.

- Marc

[SteveB]

Maybe if you ask nicely and don't call the implementer "lame" he might think about it!