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    Issue: Add an insert infobox function

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    1. issueid=1730 June 23, 2010 8:56 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Add an insert infobox function

      As described here: http://www.vaultwiki.org/threads/4308/

      Please add infobox functionality out of the box, so that admins can define a number of infoboxes per wiki forum. Members can select to insert these when editing a wiki.

      Quote Originally Posted by Alfa1 View Post
      An infobox is a table built from the following elements:

      title (same as article title)
      imagefield
      image caption
      sections (admin set)
      fieldnames (admin set)
      fieldparameters
    Issue Details
    Issue Number 1730
    Issue Type Feature
    Project VaultWiki 4.x Series
    Category Text Editor (WYSIWYG, etc)
    Status Implemented
    Priority 8 - Major Features / Enhancements
    Suggested Version 3.x
    Implemented Version 4.1.0 RC 3
    Milestone VaultWiki 4.1
    Software DependencyAny
    License TypePaid
    Votes for this feature 3
    Votes against this feature 0
    Attachments 0
    Assigned Users (none)
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    1. June 23, 2010 12:23 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      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.
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    2. June 24, 2010 7:36 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Great news.
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    3. July 7, 2013 10:12 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      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
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    4. July 9, 2013 6:03 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      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.
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    5. October 15, 2013 10:55 AM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      Originally suggested for 3.0.0.
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    6. July 17, 2014 7:07 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Quote Originally Posted by pegasus
      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.
      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/
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    7. August 7, 2019 10:58 AM
      mazzly mazzly is offline
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      Is there any update on this topic? Been discussed already in 2010, is there some way to achieve this with VW4 ?
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    8. August 7, 2019 5:46 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Its hard to believe that there still is no WYSIWYG infobox in 2019, while xenforo already has implemented custom fields.
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    9. November 19, 2019 2:00 AM
      expanserpb expanserpb is offline
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      Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top
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    10. December 26, 2019 4:34 PM
      expanserpb expanserpb is offline
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      Even if it was not wysiwyg, just something to inset wiki templates as code from a list would be amazing
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    11. December 30, 2019 8:08 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Even a simple XF wiki addon like XenCarta has this. Which makes it very appealing.
      https://8wayrun.com/wiki/alpha-patroklos/
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    12. March 29, 2020 2:28 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Has this been implemented in VW4.1?
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    13. March 29, 2020 5:25 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      WYSIWYG wiki-template inserter has not been implemented.
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    14. April 16, 2020 4:30 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      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.
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