BlueSpicePageTemplates

Extension: BlueSpicePageTemplates

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Overview
Description:	Displays a list of templates marked as page templates
State:	stable	Dependency:	BlueSpice
Developer:	HalloWelt	License:	GPL-3.0-only
Type:	BlueSpice	Category:	Content Structuring
Edition:	BlueSpice free, BlueSpice pro, BlueSpice Farm, BlueSpice Cloud	Version:	4.1+
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Features

BlueSpicePageTemplates allows users to create new pages from predefined templates to start with a basic page structure.

• Create a template (with headers, categories, boxes and other content) in the template namespace.
• Create a page template using the special page Special_PageTemplatesAdmin give the page template a name and a description.
• Each template should be assigned a template from the "Template" namespace that represents the structure of a document.
• Page templates can be assigned to a particular namespace, so that a certain template will only appear when creating pages in that namespace.
• The page template is shown as a choice when a new page is created.

Some aspects of this extension can be configured on the page Special:BlueSpiceConfigManager, under "Page templates". Here, wiki administrators can:

• Force a target namespace for the page that was created from the template
• Hide default templates

Default page templates

Since BlueSpice 4.2, several default page templates are provided through the Page templates manager. The templates themselves are located in the "Template" namespace and prefixed with the letters "PT" (example:Template:PT How-to article).

For more information on how to add or remove available page templates, see the help page.

Updates to the default templates:

If you have edited the default page templates in your wiki, they will not be overwritten during any BlueSpice upgrades. It is possible, however, that the default templates are added to the Page templates manager again after an update. You can simply remove the unwanted templates again.

An update to the current default version of all page templates can be forced with the following command from the wiki root:

php maintenance/update.php --quick --force

Technical Information

This information applies to BlueSpice 4. Technical details for BlueSpice Cloud can differ in some cases.

Requirements

• MediaWiki: 1.35.0

• BlueSpiceFoundation: 4.0

Integrates into

Special pages

• PageTemplatesAdmin

Permissions

Name	Description	Role
pagetemplatesadmin-viewspecialpage	Access to the Special:PageTemplatesAdmin special page, where page templates can be managed	admin, maintenanceadmin, structuremanager

Configuration

Name	Value
PageTemplatesExcludeNs	array ( 0 => -2, 1 => -1, 2 => 6, 3 => 7, 4 => 8, 5 => 9, 6 => 10, 7 => 11, 8 => 14, 9 => 15, )
PageTemplatesForceNamespace	false
PageTemplatesHideDefaults	false
PageTemplatesHideIfNotInTargetNs	true

API Modules

• bs-pagetemplates-store
• bs-pagetemplates-tasks

Hooks

• BSApiNamespaceStoreMakeData
• BSUsageTrackerRegisterCollectors
• HtmlPageLinkRendererBegin
• LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates
• MWStakeCommonUIRegisterSkinSlotComponents
• MediaWikiPerformAction
• MessagesPreLoad
• NamespaceManager::editNamespace
• NamespaceManager::getMetaFields
• NamespaceManager::writeNamespaceConfiguration

Accessibility

Test status:	2-testing complete
Checked for:	Web, Authoring tool
Last test date:	2022-08-05
WCAG level:	AA
WCAG support:	partially supports (workaround: no)
Comments:	keyboard access works. Screenreader: Extjs: Pagination in grids not announcing button labels at top and pagination buttons at bottom; actions menu has no keyboard support. switching between browse/focus modes enables finding out how many pages there are and moving to the next page. erm:27716
Extension type:	core
Extension focus:	admin