Manual:Extension/InputBox

The InputBox extension allows to automatically create a new page via an input field with a specific page name and - optionally - in a specific namespace.

Creating meeting minutes from an inputbox

Inputbox to create a wiki page

A typical example of this is creating meeting minutes that follow a consistent content structure. The following code can be added to the source code of a page:

<inputbox>
type=create
default={{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}
prefix=Meeting:IT/Jour fixe/
preload=Meeting:Standard minutes
buttonlabel=New minutes
break=no
width=30
useve=true
arialabel=New minutes
</inputbox>

Description of the settings:

	Wert
type	create	Creates a new page
default		Suggestion for a name for the new page; here in the example: current edate
prefix	Seitenpfad	Path to a namespace or subpage.
preload	Pfad zur Vorlage	Loads the default text for the new page from a template, if you are not using a template, this line can be deleted. If the template is not found, a blank page is created.
buttonlabel	Text	Text that is shown on the button.
break	no	Places the button behind the text field rather than below.
width	30	Size of the inputbox in characters
useve	true	Opens the new page directly in visual editing mode

Show latest minutes

If you want to display links to the last 5 meeting minutes by creation date directly below the input box, you can add the following query in the source code below the input box, specifying the path to the logs in the square brackets in the #ask query (i.e. the prefix-path from the inputbox followed by a *:

List of minutes:
<div>
{{#ask:[[~IT/Jour Fixe/*]]
|limit=5
|sort=creation date
|order=desc
|format=ul
|default=There are currently no minutes
|searchlabel= &#8594; More IT-Jour Fixe minutes
}}
</div>

Beschreibung der Einstellungen zur Anzeige der letzten Protokolle:

Name	Wert
#ask [[ ]]	create	The path to the minutes is pecified here. Alternatively, the category if the logs are assigned to a category.
limit	Zahl	Number of results. Below, a more... link will be shown
sort	creation date	Sorting of resulst by creation date
order	desc	Ordered descending
format	ul	Results format is an unordered list
default	Text	Text to show if no results exist
search label	Text	Label for the link to additional results (is shown only if there are more results than the defined limit]

Related info

• www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox

Technical Reference: InputBox

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