Page Forms

With Page Forms, users without administrator rights can use forms to create and edit pages to query data - without programming knowledge.

The use of the extension is documented on documented on MediaWiki.

Main features

• Definition pages in the namespace Form The New forms can be created using the special page Special: CreateForm. Here, users select an existing template which provides the paramaters for the form. This means that before a form is created, the required template is always created first. All created form definition pages are saved in the Form namespace. Subsequent edits to the form definition page have to be made in source editing mode.
• Application example: info boxes Page Forms is often used to add and edit infoboxes on a wiki page. If Semantic MediaWiki is used, the collected data in the templates can be stored and retrieved.
• Edit existing forms values via menu item Existing values in a template can be updated using the menu item "Edit with form" of the page edit button, for example.
• Automatic completion of fields Users Users are offered existing values when entering them, depending on the form input type. This reduces problems with naming ambiguities, spelling, etc.
• Free text field Free text on the page that is not part of the template itself can be displayed in a separate input field called "Free text" for editing directly in forms mode.

BlueSpice input types

In addition to the default input types, BlueSpice offers the following additional input types:

Input type	Result	Function
bs-grid
bs-usercombo	User name (with link to the profile page)	(Single selection).
bs-usertags	Comma-separated user name	Menu that allows to select existing wiki users (multiple selections possible). Note: To link to the profile page, the corresponding paramter in the template needs to be formated accordingly: {{#arraymap:{{{myParameter|}}}|,|@@@|[[User:@@@|@@@]]}}
bs-mvvisualeditor	Formatted text	Text box with simplified VisualEditor.
bsvisualeditor	-	Obsolete - replaced by bs-mvvisualeditor

Special pages

Page Forms defines some special pages that are used for data input and data maintenance.

Among others, the following special pages are important for data collection:

Related info

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms/en