Thanks for your help.

On 2017-02-03 01:27, Brian Wolff wrote:

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:47 AM, Bri dev@rlyehable.com wrote:

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I recently upgraded to 1.28. Before the update I could pass a category into a template:

<includeonly>{| |align="center"|Also see [[{{#if: {{{term|}}}|{{{term}}}|{{{1}}}| }}]] |}</includeonly>

But now it fails if I pass "Category:Foo" or ":Category:Foo".

In the first case (with term=) it tries to assign the category to the page the template is on. In the second case it fails at the colon. I have tried using &#58; and making a template:colon that returns &#58; -- both failed.

I feel that I am missing something simple, but can't figure it out.

-Bri

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#if introduces a newline in certain circumstances, which causes problems. However you don't even need it in your example. Try:

<includeonly>{| |align="center"|Also see [[{{{term|{{{1}}}}}}]] |}</includeonly>

which should fix the issue.

If you were doing a more complicated example that actually needed the #if, you could also try putting the : outside the variable:

<includeonly>{| |align="center"|Also see [[:{{#if: {{{term|}}}|{{{term}}}|{{{1}}}}}]] |}</includeonly>

(I'm not really sure why the above works. I think the newline gets suppressed if the previous line ends in a word character or something)

If you really didn't want to force a : to always be there, the last option is to move the brackets inside the clauses of the #if:

<includeonly>{| |align="center"|Also see {{#if: {{{term|}}}|[[{{{term}}}]]|[[{{{1}}}]]}} |}</includeonly>

Hope that helps.

-- Brian

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