Re: [Semediawiki-user] [SF/SIO] partial forms question

[Dan B. <dan...@gm...>]

On 6 December 2010 13:43, Yaron Koren <ya...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think what you're really asking about is editing only one instance of a
> multiple-instance template - unfortunately, there's no way to do that.

I logged this as a feature request here, just to help keep track of good ideas:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29130


> If people, in general, should only be editing data from their community, one
> alternate possibility is to store the "local notes" data within location
> pages, instead of within species pages - it could then be queried in species
> pages, to produce the same display.
>
> -Yaron
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Matt Goff <go...@na...> wrote:
>
>>
>> I see where it is possible to have partial forms that will allow editing
>> only a portion of a page.  What I would like to do is make it possible
>> edit only one SIO at a time.
>>
>> For example, on the page
>> http://wiki.seaknature.org/American_Pipit
>>
>> I would like to have a link displayed for each location under the "Local
>> Notes" that enabled a user to edit only the information for that
>> location.   The information for each location is stored in an SIO.   Right
>> now having all the communities on the same form isn't much of a hassle,
>> but eventually I anticipate having more information included for each
>> location, and a form that included all of them could be quite lengthy.  In
>> addition, I hope to get collaborators from other communities who would
>> most likely only be editing the information for their community, so I
>> think it would reduce mis-edits if a user could select only that part, and
>> not have to deal with sorting through the rest in the form.
>>
>> I currently have the page set up so that there is a template
>> LocationOccurrence which saves each occurrence into an SIO, but does not
>> display anything.  The display is handled by a separate template
>> LocationDisplay (which basically consists of an {{#ask: }} query and a
>> template for displaying the results.
>>
>> As best I can figure, my best approach would be to build into the template
>> which displays each record from the {{#ask:  }} query a link that allowed
>> editing the data for the corresponding SIO data (so targeting the specific
>> LocationOccurrence call in the page), but I don't know if this is possible.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt Goff
>>
>>
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