One more important addition in SF 2.2.1 that I forgot to mention: the values
of all parameters within {{{field}}} tags in the form definition are now
parsed by the MediaWiki parser, so they can include parser functions and the
like. This feature was again added by Stephan Gambke.
-Yaron
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Yaron Koren <yaron@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Version 2.2.1 of Semantic Forms has been released. Changes in this version
> include:
>
> - The awesome #autoedit functionality that was added in SF 2.2 is now
> available via the MediaWiki API as well, using the new "sfautoedit" action.
> The addition of this "RESTful" approach means that editing of template calls
> can now be easily done by any sort of script or bot, in any language. Thanks
> to Stephan Gambke for this exciting new feature.
>
> - You can now restrict editing of a particular field to a specific user
> group, instead of just to administrators, by using the new
> "restricted=group-name" syntax. Thanks to Stephan Gambke for this feature as
> well.
>
> - There was a bug, with the "textarea with autocomplete" function, where
> HTML from the form showed up within the textarea, at least for some
> browsers. This has been fixed.
>
> - Handling of quotes within values was fixed for the "combobox" input.
>
> - The declaration of the 'sfUserCanEditPage' hook was fixed, so that it
> can now work correctly with the HaloACL extension. I'm told that this was
> the last patch needed so that SF can work off-the-shelf with the SMW+
> package.
>
> - Some early support was added for the Page Schemas extension, by Ankit
> Garg. Page Schemas hasn't been released yet - it's an extension being
> developed right now by Ankit as part of the Google Summer of Code, in a
> project for which I'm the mentor. You'll be hearing more about it later,
> though!
>
> Also, there was some general restructuring of the SF code, done by both me
> and Stephan.
>
> For more information, and to download the new version, see the SF homepage:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms
>
> -Yaron
>
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