Issue: Transclude Article BBCode

Moving this to "In Progress", since the page factories have been redesigned to output content unwrapped for inclusion in different containers.

Since the TRANSCLUDE BB-Code has the potential to generate a large number of queries per use, we also need to create a setting "Max uses of TRANSCLUDE per post?" with a default value of 1. 0 should never disable the limit, as that would open up the site to user-generated DDoS attacks.

See this issue for discussion about the necessary MediaWiki conversion: https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/2535/

Moved to the VaultWiki 4 tracker. Originally requested for 3.0.0 RC 1.

What you are describing is already possible in VaultWiki 4 using the Template BB-Code. In VaultWiki 4, templates don't need the Template: prefix so you can make any page into a template. The only thing is that you MUST say the page can be used as a template. This saves resources because compiles several caches about the page that are only used by templates.

As far as transcluding articles outside of the wiki using a transclude BB-Code, I think I must decline this. You can quote articles (though it could certainly be made easier, and it should enable the wiki parser within the QUOTE tags), you can use the wiki parser in normal posts and just include local templates (or templates) that way -- although VaultWiki 4 doesn't have this feature enabled yet, and you can inject entire wiki articles onto virtually any page on the forum (provided you have edit rights to that forum page).

Two quick questions:

1) You can include wiki templates in forums posts? Anything special needed to do that?

2) How do you go about injecting articles into a forum page? Or are you talking about the headers feature?

Thanks!

1) This function is still missing. We're probably going to keep forgetting until someone who needs it posts a bug. And even then it will probably only be brought back if someone can describe a real-world scenario where it would be useful in regular posts aside from the first post (for the first post, a header could just be used). It's a very complicated function to implement, and very few, if any, customers ever used it in a way that could not be accomplished using other features.

2) I believe what I was referring to was the headers feature. You can pick any wiki page and put it at the top of a specific forum, thread, group/blog category, user profile, etc. Allowing users to do this in their individual posts might crash your forum if a lot of users take advantage of it in the same thread.

Thanks for the reply. How did it work before? I want to try it out on a site I frequent that still uses v3. Did you just do a [template]Name_Here[/template] to trigger it because I don't think I've ever seen that work on a VW-associated forum.

As for use case, mostly as a hack to use in place of direct support for allowing insertion of an article in the middle of a post. Something like, "Here are the currently known foo: [template]Foo_List[template]. You keep things updated in one spot (the template) and all posts get automagically updated when you update that template (when the post cache expires). Yes, you could link to a central source, but it can be nice to put it right in the body of a post.

I don't want it enough (on the one VW4 test site I have) to distract you from more important things, but if the functionality can be done in VW3 (for a site I frequent, but don't run), it would be nice to get a pointer to how it can be done.

Thanks again!

From what I remember, there is a setting to turn it on for particular forums "Allow users to post wiki code in regular posts?" or something like that. In a forum with the feature enabled, only usergroups with the appropriate permission can do it. When those usergroups post in that forum, there will be an option in the editor in the "Additional Options" section to use the BB-Code parser or the Wiki Code parser.

In VaultWiki 4, you can put lists in regular posts, as long as the list corresponds to an existing area, book, category, group, special page, etc.

For example, to output a list of articles from a category called "Test", you would do the following in VaultWiki 4:
Which would output the first 50 results from category Test in a list. This should work in both regular posts and wiki posts.

This is implemented in 4.1.x. You would use the following BB-Code:
The page is rendered in isolation from the current context and inserted as a straight insertion. You cannot pass arguments to the page and it has no idea that another page has invoked it. If you need these functions, you must use a real template.