edit

Name

_edit

Type

_edit

Synopsis

Using a form to edit pages that have content with templates.

Description

How to edit pages in the wiki with FlexForm

Parameters

_edit

target = Target page ( title or page id ) that needs to be edited

template = Name of the template on the target page that needs to be edited. If there are multiple instances of the same template, you can specify what instance FlexForm should use if you have a unique key and value in the specific instance. You define it by template="<name of template>|<name of argument>=<value of argument>". E.g. template="Edit user|User id=55"

formfield = Name of the field in the template. Field in the form should have the same name

usefield = [optional] If the field in the form differs from the template variable name, you can use "usefield" to let _edit know what other field from the form it should use

value = [optional] Don't read the value from the form field, but use this value explicitly

mwslot = [optional] Name of content slot to use

Example

<_edit target="pageid" template="template" formfield="formfield" />

Simple test with a complete form you can use to see if editing works: Copy the following code snippet to the source code of a page and save. You will see a text field that will edit the "Content" parameter within the "Test" template call. Note that Template:Test does not need to exist for this example to work.

{{Test
|Content=abc
}}

<form>
<_edit target="{{PAGEID}}" template="Test" formfield="Content" />
<input type="text" name="Content" />
<input type="submit"/>
</form>

Note

• You can have multiple _edit's in a form all doing different tasks.
• If you have more than 5 edits to one single page in the wiki, consider create to speed-up the process.
• If you omit value, then the value of the form will be used (so what a user has filled in).

Links

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions

The _create and _edit tags share a lot of functionality but they do not always share the same attribute names or their intended usage may differ slightly. By presenting these attributes side by side, the following table may help you on your way more quickly.

_create	_edit	comments
Can be used to create new pages Can be used to edit existing pages Cannot be used to edit a selection of fields on a page	Cannot be used to create new pages Can be used to edit existing pages, including select fields
mwwrite page title, optionally a formula in conjunction with mwoption or mwleadingzero	target page id or page title
specific to page creation: mwleadingzero mwoption noseo nooverwrite	x
mwfollow	x	If you know the name of the target page in advance, you can always set mwreturn in the form tag instead. mwfollow was specifically created for use cases where the title of the page to be created cannot be predicted.
mwfields allows for multiple fields (comma-separated)	formfield allows for single fields only
x	usefield
mwslot	mwslot
mwformat	format	wiki or json
mwtemplate	template	template name or JSON configuration
x	value	can be used to set the value explicitly, without reading it from a form field.