Creating new content (tables) through other tables

I have not created those templates in any wiki. You could just copy the wikitext for them that I wrote in one of my previous replies.

As to table's width, you can use widetable format or set the table width for .smwtable class with site-wide CSS in MediaWiki:Common.css.

Alexander Mashin^talk

adding

.smwtable {
    width: 650px;
}

in the Mediawiki.Common.css works like a charm

, and is no wikicode, is it?

Clemonde (talk)

It's plain HTML, which is also allowed in wikis. You can try to use equivalent wikicode, but there might be issues while assembling a table from several templates. You may need to screen pipes (| → {{!}}) and carefully avoid extra spaces.

Alexander Mashin^talk

this is how it looks like for now:

Men in Black (1997)

and

Template:Name

(it's just my wiki where I test stuff)

Clemonde (talk)

I've got the link to this community-portal from Clemonde and tried it on a fresh mediawiki with smw extension.

My sobobject tuples look like this.

{{#subobject: 
| Project = {{FULLPAGENAME}} 
| Year = 1995
| Role = Det. Mike Lowrey
| Actor = Will Smith
| Voice Actor = Leon Boden
}}

{{#subobject: 
| Project = {{FULLPAGENAME}} 
| Year = 1995
| Role = Det. Marcus Burnett
| Actor = Martin Lawrence
| Voice Actor = Torsten Michaelis
}}

The following statement made it possible to put these subobjects in one table:

{{#ask: [[Actor::{{{Actor|+}}}]] 
| mainlabel= -
| ?Actor
| ?Role
| ?Voice Actor 
| format = sortable 
| sort = Year
| order = desc
}}

What exactly does [[Actor::{{{Actor|+}}}]] do? I red the user-manual but could not figured it out properly

I tried to write two actor/voice-actor/role tuple in one subobject. But as a result the site of the Actor/Voice-Actor did show all tuple and not just the one WHERE Actor.Name = Will Smith

The ask command in the actor template:

{{#ask: [[Actor::{{FULLPAGENAME}}]] 
| mainlabel=-
| ?Year
| ?Project
| ?Role 
| ?Voice Actor
| format = sortable
| sort = Year
| order = desc
}}

Is there an easy way to fill the project table manually (by hand) and extract the needed data in the pages of Actor/Voice actor? A subobject for every tuple is a bit overwhelming.

Maybe a pseudo SQL statement helps:

SELECT Actor.Name, Role.Name, VoiceActor.Name
FROM Project
WHERE Actor.Name = Will Smith

Grohli (talk)

> What exactly does [[Actor::{{{Actor|+}}}]]</code> do? This is the WHERE clause of the query.

My example assumes that the {{{#ask:…}} statement is used on the template called, say Template:Actor's roles, which receives Actor as an argument: {{Actor's roles|Actor=John Smith}}.

If Actor is not given ({{Actor's roles}}), + will be used to choose all role subobjects where Actor property is set.

Another possible solution is to use the page title as the default value for Actor argument: [[Actor::{{{Actor|{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}}]]. In this case the template call on a page about an actor will look simply like this: {{Actor's roles}}.

Alexander Mashin^talk