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Create dedicated input methods for transclusion parameters (using "Param#type" from TemplateData)
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"unbalanced-wikitext" and "unknown" – continue as a raw wikitext input field

All others need the ability to bypass for raw values (e.g. {{#if:…}} instead of "4" for number):

  • "string" – A plain text input widget, allows multiline
  • "number" – A number input widget – T124850
  • "boolean" – A checkbox input widget – T144155
  • "date" – A date input widget – T100206
  • "url" – A link input widget
  • "wiki-page-name" – An mw.widgets.TitleInputWidget with validity checking – T124734
  • "wiki-user-name" – An mw.widgets.UserInputWidget – T124736
  • "wiki-file-name" – An image search and selection widget of some kind
  • "wiki-template-name" – An mw.widgets.TitleInputWidget for NS10 with validity checking
  • "content" – A full VE surface – T52355
  • "line" – A plain text input widget, not multiline – T55613

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Use widgets for wiki-page-name, wiki-user-name, wiki-template-name, boolean, URL and line template fieldsmediawiki/extensions/VisualEditormaster+208 -25
Use widgets for wiki-template-name, boolean and URL template fieldsmediawiki/extensions/VisualEditormaster+77 -10
TitleInputWidget: Allow config to disable validationmediawiki/coremaster+2 -1
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 OpenNoneT55613 Create dedicated input methods for transclusion parameters (using "Param#type" from TemplateData)
 OpenNoneT100206 Calendar input widget for dates in template parameters
 ResolvedmatmarexT97425 Create a datepicker input widget
 OpenNoneT106242 Create API to get both Parsoid HTML and wikitext for individual template parameters in a given transclusion block
 Resolved• AlexMonk-WMFT124734 Create dedicated input methods for "wiki-page-name" transclusion parameters
 Resolved• AlexMonk-WMFT124736 Create dedicated input methods for "wiki-user-name" transclusion parameters
 OpenNoneT124850 Create dedicated input methods for "number" transclusion parameters
 ResolvedMooeypooT124856 NumberInputWidget is not actually an InputWidget
 Resolved• PrtksxnaT132488 Disabled NumberInputWidget takes scrolling (touchpad, scrollwheel) into account when it shouldn't
 Resolved• PrtksxnaT132489 NumberInputWidget: Triage changing `type=text` to `type=number`
 ResolvedKrinkleT124917 Create dedicated input methods for "string" transclusion parameters
 OpenNoneT52355 VisualEditor: Add support for editing templates' parameters as DOM elements ("visually"), including supporting nested templates
 OpenFeatureNoneT71870 Enable DOM editing of transclusion parameters
 DeclinedNoneT85937 Parallelize template or template parameter expansion
 OpenNoneT76551 Provide support for multiple small surfaces with a shared toolbar (or something else?)
 OpenNoneT76550 Provide true nested, inheriting surfaces
 OpenNoneT49344 Internal nodes should eventually be in a separate document ("sub-documents")
 OpenNoneT144155 Create dedicated input methods for "boolean" transclusion parameters

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:08 AM
• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-EditingTools.
• bzimport set Reference to bz53613.
Jdforrester-WMF created this task.Aug 30 2013, 11:32 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Oct 29 2014, 10:04 PM

Change 169936 had a related patch set uploaded by Alex Monk:
Use MWTitleInputWidget for wiki-page-name parameters, add MWUserInputWidget for wiki-user-name

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169936

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 23 2014, 10:48 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Nov 24 2014, 1:25 AM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from VisualEditor: Create dedicated input methods for transclusion parameters (using "Param#type" from TemplateData) to Create dedicated input methods for transclusion parameters (using "Param#type" from TemplateData).Nov 24 2014, 1:44 AM
Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to Krenair.
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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Freezer to TR6: Visual diffs on the VisualEditor board.
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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Blocked to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Jan 15 2015, 12:10 AM
Krenair added a project: Wikimedia-Design.Apr 2 2015, 3:35 AM

Needs design input to work out how we should handle existing invalid input, and how we should continue to allow invalid input.

Jdforrester-WMF added a subtask: T100206: Calendar input widget for dates in template parameters.May 25 2015, 8:28 AM
Jdforrester-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 29 2015, 10:32 PM
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Krenair added a comment.EditedJul 18 2015, 9:41 PM

James and I discussed how this should work, and decided that we'll try to provide the correct input widget for the given parameter type where possible (falling back to wikitext where the current value obviously isn't), as well as providing the user with a button to always fall back to wikitext (because sometimes the TemplateData for the parameter might just be wrong). We're not actually given the Parsoid HTML of individual parameters by Parsoid/RESTBase, and need to figure that out with upstream. Blocker bug to follow.
Edit: T106242: Create API to get both Parsoid HTML and wikitext for individual template parameters in a given transclusion block

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Krenair added a project: Blocked-on-Parsoid.Aug 9 2015, 2:21 AM
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gerritbot subscribed.Jan 21 2016, 12:11 AM

Change 169936 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
[WIP] Use widgets for wiki-page-name and wiki-user-name parameters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169936

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Freezer to TR0: Interrupt on the VisualEditor board.Jan 22 2016, 7:14 PM
Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Templates, TemplateData; removed VisualEditor-EditingTools.Jan 22 2016, 7:19 PM
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AndreasJonsson subscribed.Jan 23 2016, 3:02 PM

May I request that this is implemented in a way that enables extensions to register custom input widgets? Technically this is not hard to achieve:

  1. Specify the interface the input widget must implement (currently, it must be an EventEmitter, implement the methods setValue, getValue and simulateLabeClick and have an $element).
  2. Add 'widgetType' and 'widgetConfig' to TemplateData, where 'widgetConfig' is a JSON string.
  3. Instantiate input widgets from a factory with fallback to 'text'.

Regarding invalid input I suggest the following: Allow the setValue method to throw an exception. (There could also be a button next to the input widget to replace it with a text input in case you want to be able to input values the widget can't handle).

I have a patch for this, which I guess I could commit to gerrit.

gerritbot added a comment.Jan 26 2016, 12:48 AM

Change 266446 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
TitleInputWidget: Allow config to disable validation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/266446

Jdforrester-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 26 2016, 1:36 AM
Krenair moved this task from Backlog to Doing on the TemplateData board.Jan 26 2016, 2:31 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 26 2016, 10:40 AM

Change 266446 merged by jenkins-bot:
TitleInputWidget: Allow config to disable validation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/266446

ReleaseTaggerBot added projects: MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-02-02_(1.27.0-wmf.12)), MW-1.27-release-notes.Jan 26 2016, 11:00 AM
Jdforrester-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 27 2016, 12:59 AM
Jdforrester-WMF removed projects: MW-1.27-release-notes, MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-02-02_(1.27.0-wmf.12)), Patch-For-Review.
Krenair updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 5 2016, 11:06 PM
Krenair updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 6 2016, 1:03 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Feb 6 2016, 1:40 AM

Change 268854 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
Use widgets for wiki-template-namep, boolean and URL template fields

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/268854

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 6 2016, 1:40 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Feb 16 2016, 12:18 AM

Change 268854 abandoned by Alex Monk:
Use widgets for wiki-template-name, boolean and URL template fields

Reason:
Re-arranging these patch sets, squashing etc.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/268854

gerritbot added a comment.Feb 16 2016, 12:21 AM

Change 169936 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
[WIP] Use widgets for wiki-page-name, wiki-user-name, wiki-template-name, boolean, URL and line template fields

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169936

• AlexMonk-WMF claimed this task.Feb 19 2016, 8:22 PM
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Jdforrester-WMF closed subtask T124734: Create dedicated input methods for "wiki-page-name" transclusion parameters as Resolved.Apr 8 2016, 4:24 PM
Jdforrester-WMF closed subtask T124736: Create dedicated input methods for "wiki-user-name" transclusion parameters as Resolved.
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 8 2016, 4:39 PM

Change 169936 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use widgets for wiki-page-name, wiki-user-name, wiki-template-name, boolean, URL and line template fields

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/169936

• AlexMonk-WMF removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 10 2016, 6:07 AM
• AlexMonk-WMF removed • AlexMonk-WMF as the assignee of this task.Apr 10 2016, 6:25 AM
• AlexMonk-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
• AlexMonk-WMF added a subtask: T52355: VisualEditor: Add support for editing templates' parameters as DOM elements ("visually"), including supporting nested templates.Apr 10 2016, 6:27 AM
• AlexMonk-WMF added a comment.Apr 10 2016, 6:29 AM
  • line is currently dealt with by a TextInputWidget without multiline: true
  • Should we have a task for wiki-file-name?
Krinkle removed a project: TemplateData.Jun 29 2016, 4:05 PM
Krinkle added a subtask: T144155: Create dedicated input methods for "boolean" transclusion parameters.Sep 13 2016, 1:57 AM
Krinkle mentioned this in T144155: Create dedicated input methods for "boolean" transclusion parameters.Sep 13 2016, 2:01 AM
Krinkle closed subtask T124917: Create dedicated input methods for "string" transclusion parameters as Resolved.Mar 27 2017, 11:12 PM
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Iniquity subscribed.May 4 2023, 4:59 PM

Hi! Is there any chance that this will be completed in the coming years? :)

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