From: Robin P. <Ro...@sl...> - 2014-04-29 11:06:01
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The "better solution" before you open to the public is to change the form (and maybe a few properties) so that day, month, and year are entered in separate fields, thus not needing any "difficult template" to set those as separate properties. Familypedia has been doing that (for all events) since SMW arrived. It lets you easily display handy tables such as "Everyone whose birthday is today". Robin F Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City, New Zealand http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/User:Robin_Patterson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krabina Bernhard" <kr...@kd...> To: "Stephan Gambke" <s7...@gm...> Cc: "Semantic MediaWiki users" <sem...@li...> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Semediawiki-user] SF: default= does not work if page already exists ..... I don't want to mass-set entries. There are 8.000 entries in the wiki with a birthdate entered manually in a form. Everything would be fine if only SMW would allow to query for day, month and year separately, but this does not work. I am using quite a hack to parse the (partly incompelete) dates to extract day, month and year to separate values that can be queried. If now the wiki is opened to the public, I'd like to provide a better solution for new or edited entries... ..... |