Hi all-
Is there anyone who knows of an extension or work around for retrieving the
REVISIONTIMESTAMP of a template without it picking up the page’s timestamp. I have a page
which is a complex table/chart. The columns of the table are constructed from Templates,
which all call a standard format template. To update the table, you just edit the column
Template’s variables. Probably not the most efficient way, but I put it together a while
back. It actually works quite well. The table for the page would have been too complex and
confusing for others to update. This way someone just updates one or two of the rows one
column at a time.
The way it is now:
Chart (Row Header Temp,Temp1, Temp2, Temp3, Temp4, Temp5)
I find myself wanting to automate the chart modification date. Instead of by hand as it is
now, it would be so much easier to use REVISIONTIMESTAMP. The problem of course is the
magic word is called on the actual page it is being rendered on. I was trying to use the
variable extension, but I guess when a template is called only the information between the
<includeonly> tags is even parsed? Is that correct? I though I could set a variable
outside of them, but it appears the whole page is not parsed on a template inclusion.
Yes, semantic-mediawiki would make it so much easier, but it isn’t an option at this
time.
Thanks
Tom