SMW queries

Here you can see some examples for simple queries using the metadata of a wiki page. You can add these queries to any wiki page.

Creating page lists

{{#ask:
[[:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
|format=ul
|limit=4
}}

• About maintenance
• Adding RSS feeds to a page
• Administration and safety
• Announcement/Log4Shell

... further results

Notes:

[[:+]] show Pages in the Main namespace. [[Myspace:+]] shows pages in the namespace Myspace.

[[:+||Help:+]]shows pages in the Main namespace and in the namespace Help.

Output in category style

{{#ask:
[[:+]][[Modification date::+]]
|format=category
|limit=12
}}

A

• About maintenance
• Adding RSS feeds to a page
• Administration and safety
• Announcement/Log4Shell

B

• BSD 3-Clause

B cont.

• BlueSpice 2.23
• BlueSpice 2.23.1
• BlueSpice 2.23.2
• BlueSpice 2.23.3
• BlueSpice 2.27.0

B cont.

• BlueSpice 2.27.0 Notable New Features
• BlueSpice 2.27.1
• ... further results

Show pages from a category

{{#ask: 
[[Category:Administration]] 
| limit=4 
| searchlabel=
| format=ol 
}}

1. Authentication with LDAP
2. BlueSpice Layout/Footer
3. Config manager
4. Customize the main navigation

Seiten mit gleichem Namensanfang

{{#ask: 
[[~Visu*]][[:+||Manual:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
| limit=5 
| searchlabel=
| format=ol 
}}

List of pages in the Main namespace and in the namespace Manual that begin with "Visu".

1. Visual version comparison (VisualDiff)
2. VisualEditor
3. VisualEditor/Tables/Examples
4. VisualEditor/Version comparison
5. VisualEditor: Insert Images

Results format: Table

Format "broadtable"

{{#ask: 
[[~Visu*]][[:+||Manual:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
| limit=5 
| searchlabel=
| format=broadtable
}}

Visual version comparison (VisualDiff)
VisualEditor
VisualEditor/Tables/Examples
VisualEditor/Version comparison
VisualEditor: Insert Images

Format "datatable"

{{#ask: 
[[~Visu*]][[:+||Handbuch:+]]
[[Modification date::+]]<!-- necessary to filter deleted pages -->
| limit=5 
| searchlabel=
| format=table
| class=datatable
}}

Important!

The format declaration

|format=datatable 

currently does not work with the BlueSpice skin. Instead, use the following syntax:

|format=table
|class=datatable

Visual version comparison (VisualDiff)
VisualEditor
VisualEditor/Tables/Examples
VisualEditor/Version comparison
VisualEditor: Insert Images

Related info

• SMW "ask" queries
• SMW result formats