[01:24:23] <_ken_> Hello everyone, my question is as follows: [01:25:49] <_ken_> After my admin recently upgraded to the latest Semantic version, all of my properties (under Special:Properties) show up as "of type Page." They should almost all exclusively be of type String. [01:26:25] <_ken_> This is having the unusual effect in that all of my pages that use those properties are full of red links (becuase the pages don't exist). [01:27:01] <_ken_> The odd thing is, if I select one of the properties at random and view it I can see indeed it has [[Has type::String]] within it. [01:27:22] <_ken_> So...the properties are saying they are of type String but they all show up as type Page. [01:27:48] <_ken_> Is there some type of refresh I need to run to ensure they show up as Strings? [01:27:57] <_ken_> Or some other fix? [01:36:12] <_ken_> I see someone else reports the same problem but suggestion doesn't help: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Help_talk:Properties_and_types/Wrong_property_type [01:39:43] <_ken_> Wow, nevermind. [01:40:21] <_ken_> I guess "String" isn't a valid type anymore. The version I was using allowed String but it appears that support is gone. [01:48:31] <_ken_> I guess my question is how do I make an alias to a property? I see this page but it doesn't help: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Type_String [02:26:36] <_ken_> I guess I will just edit my properties (200 of them) to be of type Text. Sad. [02:32:00] New patchset: Mwjames; "Refactor SMWFactbox, make it an instantiable class" [mediawiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki] (master) - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61171 [02:49:20] New patchset: Mwjames; "Use @covers annotation to allow forceCoversAnnotation="true"" [mediawiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki] (master) - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/67225 [02:52:14] Change merged: jenkins-bot; [mediawiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki] (master) - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/67225 [13:22:38] New review: Jamie Thingelstad; "SMW + Lua makes me so excited! I can't wait to dive into some modules with this!" [mediawiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki] (master) - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/56393 [14:36:49] Hello, I created a Semantic Form a few years back, that basically helps my users create a page in the format that i want. The Form contains several fields including one called House. I believe the field is actually a property? [14:37:07] Anyway the function of that field House categorizes the post based on the location that is input in that field [14:37:17] so i could type Delaware in that field and it would categorize it as Delaware [14:37:30] However, i recently noticed it stopped working [14:38:21] im not sure what changed or when it changed, i havent used it in a while and several people have access to edit it but since its been so long we arent sure what it was. [14:38:30] So what i'd like to do is figure out how to get it working again [14:38:54] its unfortunately an intranet site that isn't available to view outside of our network [14:40:04] the field should display a drop down with the available locations [14:40:14] but now the dropdown doesnt show any of the choices [14:41:31] when i visit the property page for it, it shows the allowed values [14:42:03] it says, "This is a property of type Page. It links to pages that use the form Houses. The allowed values for this property are: Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 [14:42:31] the issue is that those Options dont show up in the Form Houses in the House Property Drop Down - where do i check to fix this? [14:44:50] in the Form:Article it shows the following: ! House: | {{{field|House|input type=dropdown}}}{{#info:What specific House does this Article pertain to?} [14:59:02] heres the form:Article where it is being used http://pastebin.com/8JXWVQ4s [15:10:10] so im not sure if i need to be looking at the Form or the Property to get the drop down to work [15:10:16] and fulfill the values for the property [15:11:25] kevindank - I don't know exactly what the issue is, but you can probably get around it by changing the tag to "{{{field|House|property=House|input type=dropdown}}}". [15:14:18] yaron1: Unfortunately, that does not work. [15:14:37] I swapped that out on the Form:Article [15:15:07] i have another drop down in the same form that works fine [15:16:20] Morning / Afternoon everyone. I'm finally moving from 1.16 to 1.21, and having issues with some of the extensions, currently PageInfo. I've got a lot of debug options set, including capturing a debug log file, but I'm not really seeing anything to indicate why I'm getting to the default error page. Are there any diagnostic information links to help me find the culprit? [15:18:22] kevindank: is that property page located at "Property:House"? [15:18:51] Yaron: Yes [15:19:13] What version of SF are you using? [15:19:27] http://hastebin.com/bemixawigo.vhdl is what appears on that page [15:19:59] oops... probably a #mediawiki question, duh [15:20:00] smw 1.6.1 [15:20:23] Forms: Version 2.3.2) [15:20:37] on smw 1.17.1 [15:20:40] i mean mw [15:21:00] Those are rather old versions of SMW and SF... [15:21:06] Though I doubt that's the issue. [15:21:34] Yeah, i mean like i said i have another property setup the same way the other one was and it works okay. [15:21:45] Could i have to many values? [15:21:48] kevindank: what you just pastebin'ed is different from what you pasted earlier. [15:22:04] Or hastebin'ed, rather. [15:22:47] Did you hastebin the right thing? [15:23:10] What i just hastebin'd is exactly whats on the property:House page [15:23:42] the pastebin from earlier was the Form:Article page i believe [15:25:40] sorry for the confusion Yaron: [15:26:32] So your "House" property contains values like "Alliance Beverage"? [15:27:01] Yes. [15:27:19] Alliance Beverage is the House, this should appear in a drop down. [15:27:39] in case it helps, here is the template the Form Uses: http://hastebin.com/metufayihe.lua [15:27:51] Alright. What I meant before was that the text you pasted earlier included the sentence "It links to pages that use the form Houses.", and this one doesn't. [15:29:35] i revised that a little while ago to see if it made a difference to remove that sentnace [15:29:44] but it didn't [15:30:19] I also tried changing that sentance to It links to pages that use the form Article [15:30:42] that didn't work, so i left it out completely and the current version doesnt include it at all as seen in the latest hastebin [15:31:24] I don't know, then - that's strange. [15:32:08] here's another thing.... [15:33:29] Should i just create a new property and name it something else like House Updated and add the values on the Property:House Updated then insert "{{{field|House Updated|property=House Updated |input type=dropdown}}}". into the Form:Article [15:35:29] Sure, why not. [16:06:22] Yaron: Creating a new property and replacing the old one worked for me. [16:06:25] Thanks for your help. [16:06:39] Cool, I'm glad to hear it. [17:38:22] New review: Daniel Werner; "(1 comment)" [mediawiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki] (master) - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/34976 [23:31:46] Hey, I'm new to SMW, just trying to get past a problem - field was defined as boolean, but is showing up as a popup menu with the choices True or False. [23:31:59] is that supposed to happen? Would have expected a checkbox. [23:32:18] Second thing; is it possible to change the form after the fact to have different labels (if not different values?)