Template:PropVals

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Description

This is the main-entry-point of a complex template-class

It is used to automatically list all the values of a property of a page as an un-ordered list.

This generated-output will be used in {{Infobox}} to automatically show relevant info.

See these pages for documentation on functions used:

• Help:Selecting pages
• Help:Displaying information
• Help:Inline queries (Parser function #show)
• Extension:StringFunctions (#explode:)

Other pages with relevant info are:

• List the set of unique values for a property
• Multiple values for the same field

Functional logic

• {{PropVals}} is used as a wrapper to inject extra arguments into {{PropVals/List}}, using the output of {{PropVals/getGroupedRecords}}.
  1. {{PropVals/List}} is used as a wrapper to inject extra arguments into {{PropVals/Print Entry}}, to output each entry of a grouped-record under a common group-heading when appropriate, as list-items <li>...</li>.
     • {{PropVals/Print Entry}} is used to display each entry in a visually appealing way, by outputting an icon-image followed by a link to the page of the object followed by the amount when requested.

       It uses {{PropVals/Split}} to extract the name- and amount-fields from the entry.

  2. {{PropVals/getGroupedRecords}} is used as a wrapper to inject extra arguments into {{PropVals/Group}}, using the output of {{PropVals/getRecords}} as input, to output grouped-records, for further processing by {{PropVals}}.
     1. {{PropVals/Group}} is used as a wrapper to inject extra arguments into {{PropVals/Group/NextPart}}, using records as input, to output grouped-records.
        • {{PropVals/Group/NextPart}} is used as a helper-template, to output a grouped-record that starts with the group-heading followed by entries.

          An entry is a record with its heading-field removed, that has the same heading-field as the previous record.

          It uses {{PropVals/Group/heading}} and {{PropVals/Split}} to separate the fields in the record.

          The structure of a record is: Objectname{{{sep}}}Amount{{{sep}}}Groupheading

     2. {{PropVals/getRecords}} is used to retrieve all the values of a property of a page, and output them as records for further processing by {{PropVals/getGroupedRecords}}.

Syntax

Type the below code somewhere inside {{Infobox}} or a page:

{{PropVals |prop=RequiresObj |page={{FULLPAGENAME}} |sep={{{sep|;}}} |grpsep={{{grpsep|/\}}} |showamount={{{showamount|no}}} }}

Examples

1. {{PropVals|prop=RequiresObj|page=Help:Infobox/testdata|showamount=y}} gives:
   
2. {{PropVals|prop=RequiresObj|page=Help:Infobox/testdata|showamount=y|debug=y}} gives:
   

Sub-templates

• Test data used in examples: PropVals testdata
• {{PropVals/Group}}
• {{PropVals/Group/NextPart}}
• {{PropVals/Group/heading}}
• {{PropVals/List}}
• {{PropVals/Print Entry}}
• {{PropVals/Split}}
• {{PropVals/getGroupedRecords}}
• {{PropVals/getRecords}}
• {{PropVals/getIcon}}

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