Issue: Add an insert infobox function

A WYSIWYG template inserter is something that's currently in the planning stages, but we really won't be seeing any new features until we do the content-type rewrite.

Great news.

As VW4 uses modules and a sidebar, how about placing the infobox in the sidebar?

This is also requested here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads...11#post-346841
http://xenforo.com/community/threads...-4#post-579271

I have created a separate request for sidebar implementation: https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/3182/
Using the feature would have to be handled by the infobox template's designer.

Originally suggested for 3.0.0.

IMHO the infoblock should not be BB code. It should have its own function. It basically should be a custom fields block.
This could then be expanded to a wikidata like system: https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/2837/

Is there any update on this topic? Been discussed already in 2010, is there some way to achieve this with VW4 ?

Its hard to believe that there still is no WYSIWYG infobox in 2019, while xenforo already has implemented custom fields.

Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top

Even if it was not wysiwyg, just something to inset wiki templates as code from a list would be amazing

Even a simple XF wiki addon like XenCarta has this. Which makes it very appealing.
https://8wayrun.com/wiki/alpha-patroklos/

Has this been implemented in VW4.1?

WYSIWYG wiki-template inserter has not been implemented.

Added an editor button for the Template BB-Code in the next release.

Contrary to what may have been alluded to in prior years, the implementation of this function is not fully WYSIWYG:
When you insert the template BB-Code in this way, that template itself is not invoked inside the editor. The editor still shows the raw template tag, but it can be picked using a tool that doesn't require a user to have prior knowledge of the template's parameters:

Editor Button

When clicking the template button, it will now open a dialog, which contains a page chooser for searching templates. When selecting a template, the dialog automatically updates its form with the parameters that exist in that template. Each parameter is a separate BB-Code editor field that the user can fill. When closing the dialog, the appropriate template BB-Code is then inserted into the main editor.

Since each parameter is a separate BB-Code editor, you can use any BB-Code there, including clicking the template button. This allows for nesting templates in an assisted way with lesser possibility for confusion.

You can highlight an existing template BB-Code in the editor, then click the button and it will auto-populate appropriately.

Template packs

We have created a new concept which we refer to as Template Packs. These are admin-defined groupings in the Presets section where you can create named "packs" of templates, and assign those packs to various areas. There will be a number of uses for these, but related to this request:

When the user clicks the template-BB-Code editor button, the templates are pre-filtered into the packs that were assigned to the area. The user can still search for other templates, but they see the packs first. This will allow the admin to make some templates much easier to find.

For example, let's say your wiki contains a bunch of different infobox templates that you have designed. You can make a pack called "Infobox templates", and put "Character Infobox", "Place Infobox", etc (assuming those exist in your wiki). When the user clicks the editor button, they will see "Infobox Templates", which unfolds to list "Character Infobox", "Place Infobox", and they can pick the one they want to use.

After upgrading to the next release, in XenForo 2.1 installations, you will need to manually update your editor button configuration to include the template button.