Thread:RR3 Michael P/@comment-27006659-20170319151020/@comment-30967537-20170509224349

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the replies.

In response to yesterday's post ...

1. Ok. Not sure how I should interpret that. Are you saying that a page must use a template?

2. As a test I created templates for Sandbox02 (H/AllEvents and R/AllEvents) and Sandbox03 (H/AllSeriesEvents and R/AllSeriesEvents) and then created Sandbox02t and Sandbox03t pages which use the templates. The data is the same (except for the template name). I tried it with a few lines and calculated the nodes used to pre-process each line (30 nodes) so I figured that (with a Wiki limit of 300,000 nodes) it should be ok to do all 6,116 rows, but it failed. I think the problem is not the numbers but the next stage, the post data expand. I re-created the pages with 500 rows of data and they worked fine.

3. Ok, thanks. It's all a bit overwhelming at first. Probably a good place to start would have been Wiki/Help:Template (which you probably mentioned?) but I'm impatient and like to dive in and see if I can swim!

4. I've done some more reading and now understand what it means ... the pipe is added to the field name when checking if it exists or is empty.

5. What I meant about jumping to the next field is ... not all rows have the same number of fields SO how does the template/script know? Having now done a bit more reading I realise that was a silly question!

A new question!

6. Is it possible (I'm sure it it) to delete/remove user pages  i.e. pages under my User:QuickNick "folder"?

In response to today's posts ...

Variables, yes I'd worked that out after some further reading, but thanks for telling me.

Thanks for the commented script, I'd managed to work out most of it, but thanks for doing it, very useful.

Minimum Upgrades.

I've been playing with the data and template, taken on-board your comment about links being done in the template.

There's a new version in Sandbox12a. Ok?

Should I be formatting numbers in the template (to allow for international formatting  e.g. 1.0 here in the UK is probably 1,0 in Europe) or is it ok as it is?

All Series/Events.

Are you going to use the concatenated data I created or my Sandbox page?

Nick