DPL talk:Manual - DPL parameters: Controlling output format

Actual output examples

This page could do with actual output examples instead of showing just code... Also, how do I get a template's field value to show up as specified in the template (with wiki markup)? -Eep² 12:22, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

I agree. But I would not like to have all the examples within the manaul page. We should take the way 'selfhtml' went. So there should be a new Category called 'DPL Manual Demo' or something like that. Each Demo sample should be memeber of that category. It should have a back ling to the manual. And of course the manual should have a link to the exampe ;-). Maybe one could even find a generic way to show the sourcecode of the example - this would be quite helpful.

Gero 15:03, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

getting wiki markup

I do not quite understand the question from above. If you use the template substitution mechanism parameters will be expanded before they are passed to the "surrogate" template. If you use the {templatename}:xx syntax a primitive scanner will identify the position of the template call in the wiki text of the caller and it will return the wikitext it finds between the parameter name and the next '|'. This is enough in many cases, but does not work correctly if the parameter value itself contains another template invocation.

Gero 15:09, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

See http://www.tnlc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Comparison_table for what I'm trying to do. Template:game doesn't use templates but does have wiki markkup which I would like each field that appears in the comparison table to contain (that, in this case, links to the category of the same name). How do I do this? Obviously, if I pulled in this game template's fields, they would also categorize the comparison table into every category too, so I just need a way to add category links to each field in the DPL output (preferably also being able to use a template if desired). Is this possible?

I see there is a %SECTION% parameter for secseparators but I don't see a %FIELD% for use with templates. Can this be added that will pull in the template field's contents and allow it to be wiki-formatted ([[%FIELD%]], [[:Category:%FIELD%]], etc) and, if specified, have escapelinks (or a relevant parameter like parse) to either strip the wiki markup or show (parse/whatever) it as it would be if the template field was in a normal wiki article (with wiki links, category designations, etc). If all of this is already possible with DPL, please tell me how. -Eep² 08:04, 27 July 2007 (CEST)

I don't understand what you mean by "{templatename}:xx syntax"--I thought that was only for the includepage parameter? Why doesn't it work correctly if another template inclusion is in the parameter value?

Also, is there a resultsfooter parameter? I'd like to create a "totals" row below the table of how many games there are but resolutsheader only seems to be able to appear above the table.

Lastly, the edit page has a lot of "undefined" text that appears, trying to render non-existent edit buttons, probably. -Eep² 15:23, 26 July 2007 (CEST)