Using partial forms and saving them or getting just the preview after filling the form destroys the content if there is not just text, but also other wiki templates in a text field. Then the content becomes destroyed by a wrong replacement (see above). Maybe inner templates should not be replaced by } and a superscript 2? Just a guess.

Kind regards
Andreas

Please try to analyse the problem. This bug seems to be the same as

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23246

reported already in April, and where a patch was already proposed.

For me the problem is a total blocker. We have invested much effort into creating semantic forms, but have to keep them turned off as long as every use destroys previously the field content (e.g. a small template like {{smallcaps|the-text}} which we use a lot for formatting).

We use mediawiki 1.17 at SVN rev. 69050 at present.

About versions: on

http://scratchpad.referata.com/wiki/Form:Builder

the bug can be verified for Semantic Forms (Version 2.0.7rc1) (SVN r78505)
(http://scratchpad.referata.com/wiki/Special:Version)

As far as I know, this bug has been fixed in SVN; and the fix will go into the next version of SF, 2.0.8. Feel free to re-open if it's still a problem.