[01:59:52] <ghostofsparkles>	 howdy guys, is anyone free to give me a point in the right direction?
[02:00:48] <ghostofsparkles>	 I've been stuck on this for a whole day now and google has nothing :/
[02:14:46] <Yaron>	 ghostofsparkles: what's the issue?
[02:17:30] <ghostofsparkles>	 I'm trying to build a Page Form which will drive a query in a template
[02:17:51] <Yaron>	 Alright.
[02:18:01] <ghostofsparkles>	 the actual Query is passing fine, but I also want the user to be able to select which optional properties are shown
[02:18:14] <ghostofsparkles>	 they are coming from a 'token' inputtype in the form
[02:18:21] <ghostofsparkles>	 comma-delimited
[02:19:07] <Yaron>	 Ah, you want the printouts (like "?A|?B") to be set via a template parameter.
[02:19:07] <ghostofsparkles>	 the problem is, I can't seem to get mediawiki to understand that I want to insert pipes and questionmarks |? to the start of each property
[02:19:12] <ghostofsparkles>	 yeah
[02:19:16] <ghostofsparkles>	 let me show you that line of code
[02:19:22] <ghostofsparkles>	 |?{{#arraymap:{{{DisplayProperties}}}|,|x|x| {{!}}?}}
[02:19:27] <Yaron>	 Right - that's tricky... I'm not sure if it's possible.
[02:19:31] <ghostofsparkles>	 i'm using the magicword for the pipe
[02:19:36] <Yaron>	 Right.
[02:19:49] <ghostofsparkles>	 i also tired used <nowiki> tags
[02:19:53] <ghostofsparkles>	 *tried
[02:19:56] <ghostofsparkles>	 also tired tbh
[02:20:01] <ghostofsparkles>	 very tired
[02:20:03] <ghostofsparkles>	 :D
[02:20:03] <Yaron>	 :)
[02:20:49] <Yaron>	 I'm not surprised that that has failed - there's certainly a chance that what you're trying to do is simply not possible.
[02:20:57] <ghostofsparkles>	 hahaha
[02:21:11] <ghostofsparkles>	 good stuff
[02:21:24] <ghostofsparkles>	 I think I'll just set a restriction
[02:21:30] <Yaron>	 If you really need this kind of feature, you may possibly have to create a Lua module for it.
[02:21:30] <ghostofsparkles>	 say 10 properties
[02:21:46] <Yaron>	 Using a combination of the Scribunto and "Semantic Scribunto" extensions.
[02:22:04] <Yaron>	 Those definitely give a lot more flexibility.
[02:22:16] <Yaron>	 But it's more work.
[02:22:26] <ghostofsparkles>	 I'll weigh it up, it's just a little project
[02:22:58] <Yaron>	 Ah.
[02:23:12] <Yaron>	 Yes, what's the harm in just displaying everything?
[02:23:28] <ghostofsparkles>	 probably nothing
[02:23:32] <ghostofsparkles>	 I'm probably just overthinking it
[02:23:35] <ghostofsparkles>	 trying to be clever
[02:24:00] <ghostofsparkles>	 if I just set a limit I can probably use switches or something
[02:24:25] <ghostofsparkles>	 or if that fails, as you said, I'll just show everything
[02:25:08] <ghostofsparkles>	 thanks for your help Yaron, I'm gonna idle for a bit and see if anyone has any other fun ideas :)
[02:25:24] <Yaron>	 Alright, sounds good. :)
[02:25:56] <Yaron>	 You might have more luck during the day... i.e. for Europe or the Americas.
[02:29:21] <ghostofsparkles>	 yeah I'm in Germany so I should probably go to sleep and try tomorrow :)