Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceSmartList

The extension SmartList allows to insert a list of pages in a wiki page using the tags smartlist, newbies, or toplist. The selection criteria can be set using a dialog box.

Note:Smart lists will only include pages that have been created or edited within the last 90 days. If you need to show all pages instead of recent pages, use an SMW query instead.

Available tags

Magic word smartlist in VisualEditor

The extension SmartList offers three different tags:

• <bs:smartlist /> - display a list of pages based on different criteria
• <bs:newbies /> - display a list of recently registered users
• <bs:toplist /> - display a list of most visited pages

All of the tags listed above can be added through the menu Insert > Magic word in VisualEditor. For more information on how to insert magic words, see InsertMagic.

Smartlist

ptions of the smartlist tag

Parameters

The SmartList can be limited or extended with the following parameters:

Label	Parameter	Values	Description
Count	count	number	The number of articles to be shown. Default value: 5
Namespace(s)	ns	number or name	Only articles from given namespace will be listed. The namespaces can be entered by IDs or by names. Several namespaces can be named with pipes: ns="0|2|5" or ns="Help|User|Test". Default: All namespaces are included.
Category	cat	name	Only articles from given category will be listed. Selecting several categories is not possible. Default: All categories.
Category mode	catmode	AND, OR	Show pages if they are in at least one of the categories (OR) or show pages if they are tagged with all categories (AND).
Show minor	minor	true, false	Minor changes (changes marked with an "m" in the recent changes) will not be listed. Default: Minor changes are listed.
Period	period	-, month, week, day	Only changes within given period are shown. Default: No limit.
Show only new articles	new	true, false	Only new pages will be listed. Default: All pages are shown
Heading	heading	text	Adds a heading above the list
Sort by	sort	Title, Time	Sort results by title or by latest edited.
Sort order	order	asc, desc	Ascending or descending sort order.
Trim	trim	number	Long article names are not cropped. Default: The title is cut off after 30 characters.
Show text	showtext	true, false	With this option, a line of the article contents will be shown alongside the title.
Trim text	trimtext	number	"trimtext" sets the number of characters of an article's content shown. This is only relevant when showtext="true"). Note: trimtext="0" is not possible.
Show namespaces	showns	true, false	If true, the namespace prefix is shown with the page names.
Number with text	numwithtext	number	Anzahl der Artikel die mit Einführungstext angezeigt werden sollen. Nur effektiv wenn showtext=true
Meta	meta	true	The username and date for the last edit are shown.
Target	target	-	Obsolete
Exclude namespace(s)	excludens	number or name	Articles from given namespaces will not be shown. The namespaces can be entered by IDs or by names (comma-separated). Default: All namespaces are included.

Example output in source code:

<bs:smartlist category="ISO9001" new="true" count="7" ns="104" trim="false" />

Newbies

The tag <bs:newbies /> shows recently registered wiki users.

Parameters

Label	Parameter	Values	Description
Count - count			The number of users to be shown; the default value is 10.

Example in wikicode

<bs:newbies count="7"/>

Toplist

This tag shows a list of the most visited pages.

Parameters

Label	Paramter	Values	Description
Count	count	number	The number of articles to be shown; the default value is 10.
Namespaces	ns	text, text	Only articles from these namespace will be shown. You can put several namespaces here, separated by commas.
Category	cat	text, text	Only articles from this category will be shown. You can put several categories here, separated by commas.
Period	period	month, alltime	The period that should be used. The default is alltime.

Example in wikicode

<bs:toplist count="7" ns="Help|QM" />

• Page templates
• Reference:ContainerFilter
• Manual:Extension/TabberNeue
• MediaWiki:Tabb...ansclude-category
• Mytransclusion2
• Mytransclusion1
• Testübersetzung
• How to debug
• Unformatted wiki page
• Manual:Create pages

Related info

• Reference:BlueSpiceSmartList
• Reference:BlueSpiceInsertMagic

Technical Reference: BlueSpiceSmartList

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