Glad to hear it worked out! Have you read Yaron's MediaWiki book? I found it quite helpful when investigating SMW at my last job. [ http://www.amazon.com/Working-MediaWiki-Yaron-Koren/dp/0615720307 ]
--Daniel From: greg.rundl...@gmail.com [mailto:greg.rundl...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett (freephile) Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:52 PM To: Daniel Renfro Cc: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list; Daniel Barrett; Yaron Koren Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] New extensions from Vistaprint On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Daniel Renfro <dren...@vistaprint.com<mailto:dren...@vistaprint.com>> wrote: Cheers Greg, We here at Vistaprint have very little experience with SMW/SMW forms. I personally experimented with it at my last job[1] but haven't used it in years. Our staff directory consists of a home-rolled extension that uses locally cached information from ActiveDirectory (via LDAP.) I also didn't find much via Google on implementing a personnel-directory with SMW...I don't think there is much out there. It sounds very plausible and I encourage you to try SMW, I've heard great things about it. Well, I tried it and succeeded at making a Company Staff Directory using Semantic MediaWiki and the PageSchema extension. Much thanks to Yaron Koren for his help :-) This "PageSchema" sets up a Category entry for "Person". Using the Page Schema extension, you can generate the templates, properties and forms for the object. Then, using DataTransfer I was able to inport a CSV to populate my Company Directory with people. I did have to do a bit of manual tweaking (for example you can't specify an uploadable file input through PageSchema, so I had to adjust the semantic form manually.) If I get time, I plan to implement a bigger project and/or do a writeup and documentation. I'd say this was a LOT faster than the time I setup an LDAP directory. Of course it's not an LDAP directory, but it could proove to be more useful. <PageSchema> <semanticforms_Form name="Person"> <CreateTitle>Create a new Person</CreateTitle> <EditTitle>Edit Person</EditTitle> <standardInputs freeTextLabel="Free text" inputFreeText="1" inputWatch="1" inputSave="1" inputCancel="1"/> </semanticforms_Form> <Template name="Person" format="standard"> <Field name="First Name"> <Label>First Name</Label> <semanticmediawiki_Property name=""> <Type>Text</Type> </semanticmediawiki_Property> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>text</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> <Field name="Last Name"> <Label>Last Name</Label> <semanticmediawiki_Property name=""> <Type>Text</Type> </semanticmediawiki_Property> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>text</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> <Field name="Company" display="nonempty"> <Label>Company</Label> <semanticmediawiki_Property name=""> <Type>Page</Type> <AllowedValue>Benu (Billerica)</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Benu (Contractor)</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Benu (India)</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>PrimeSoft</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Tech Mahindra</AllowedValue> </semanticmediawiki_Property> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>dropdown</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> <Field name="Department"> <Label>Department</Label> <semanticmediawiki_Property name=""> <Type>Page</Type> <AllowedValue>Engineering</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Engineering - Tech Pubs</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Engineering - Sustaining</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Engineering - SQA</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Manufacturing</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>General & Administrative</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Sales Engineering</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Sales</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Support</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Marketing</AllowedValue> <AllowedValue>Other</AllowedValue> </semanticmediawiki_Property> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>dropdown</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> <Field name="Manager"> <Label>Manager</Label> <semanticmediawiki_Property name=""> <Type>Text</Type> </semanticmediawiki_Property> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>text with autocomplete</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> <Field name="Email Address"> <Label>Email Address</Label> <semanticmediawiki_Property name=""> <Type>Email</Type> </semanticmediawiki_Property> <semanticforms_FormInput/> </Field> <Field name="Subversion Username"> <Label>Subversion Username</Label> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>text</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> </Template> <Template name="Skill" multiple="multiple" format="plain"> <semanticforms_TemplateDetails> <Label>Skills</Label> </semanticforms_TemplateDetails> <Field name="Skill Name"> <Label>Skill</Label> <semanticmediawiki_Property name=""> <Type>Page</Type> </semanticmediawiki_Property> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>combobox</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> <Field name="Photo" display="nonempty"> <Label>Photo</Label> <semanticforms_FormInput> <InputType>text with autocomplete</InputType> </semanticforms_FormInput> </Field> </Template> </PageSchema> Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com http://freephile.org _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
