Difference between revisions of "Template talk:Infobox News"

Latest revision as of 04:24, 16 December 2006

you test 2 time the "news" object Patul 03:44, 14 December 2006 (EST)

I *hoped* it would be working to get an infobox that isn't limited in the number of entries as the number of news can't be pre-determinated. How have I to "code" it? Is it required to create the infobox code on this site from 1. to 100. possible news?

For now I even didn't understand the entries themselves so I tested twice? *ggg* Didn't notice.

Do you have an idea to get it working, maybe a formula or else? Khaibit

As I know, I asked asomebody more experimented than me in wiki (its easy), there is no formula in wiki it is a linkage of page, as I read also the wiki purpose is sharing knowledge an not news as a real site. I will try to know more :) Your method is as I know the only one.

• what do you want to show exactly : lines of text, links to new posts... and how do you espect manage it ?

Patul 14:05, 14 December 2006 (EST) ---

Yes, this site is the link-template. I just don't know how to adjust the template to work on the sites as it shall appear like :lol: Quoting from [this site] - I wrote the important stuff, summary or "news" (if you have an idea for a better fitting word feel free to change it =) ) as an ordinary list first.

News:

• The Material Types will be listed twice, alphabetical and categorised (maybe seperated on 2 pages).
• The categorised list will use hierarchial branching.
• To every Material Type a short quickinfo ("x" - submaterial of "y", - for "function z"/ outdated/ stand alone] will be added to the alphabetical list.
• Because of the hierarchial branching only group-headlines and quickinfos about outdated material typesd should be required for the categorised list.
• "Found in "cMaterialDefinition" in Content." will be added on top of the Material Types - page(s).

The reason for this is a preparation (this stuff is listed on the discussion pages, our workspace to preparate the "gigantic topic material definition") of infos we want to offer as understandable and as technical as possible - at the same time. So it is tricky and helpful for us to avoid loosing the leitmotiv to keep our "headlines" on top.

In doubt just take a look at the link listed above, should be clearer then :)

To answer your questions:

• lines of text, written immediately in the info box of the site (auto-adding to the main page would be great but no prob if this doesn't work)
• no, no links to new posts. Nevertheless it might happen that a link to another Wiki page might be required - if I understood this coding-thingy correctly adding a link is possible with the ordinary wiki bracket-way.
• managing: we discuss suggestions of "how tos" first, how the data can be presented best etc. and whenever we made it to agree in one point one of us can add the agreement to the "news" on top of the site that it's easy to see though a long discussion follows (BTW, "we" are Numenor, Niol, Pixelhate and me, sorry, forgot to mention :D)

Patul, thanks a million for your help =)

Khaibit 14:50, 14 December 2006 (EST)

The pblem of auto adding is especially a management problem ! WWW : Who ? When ? Why ? add a record in the list (it is a databese basic question) As your news are "managed" to be or not in the news section the category solution is possible, and easy to manage as a page may bellong to many categories. This is just a flag in a page to be shown or not in some cases. Patul 04:43, 15 December 2006 (EST)

Unfortunately I haven't been working with databases yet :D so I don't know if I could follow you - you mean the TXMT-discussion pages (the only pages where these news shall appear as the news only belong to them) has to be set into a category? In this case this won't be possible because this preparation don't belong to "Modding" yet. It's nothing but a communication tool on discussion pages for one certain project only so the www will always be: one of the 4 team members (Numenor, niol, pixelhate, Khaibit); when isn't required for us, only for this database listing; why will always be: because of a résumé of our work in progress. If the only way to get this certain talk page only connected to the TXMT discussion and it's sub pages by set it into it's own category I have to think about another, less soigné solution...
So did I understand you right?
Khaibit 22:22, 15 December 2006 (EST)