Help:List of COLLADA wiki templates
This page contains details of Wiki templates currently defined in this COLLADA wiki.
User templates
Any template can be used by anyone, but these are more likely to be of general use to a general user.
Formatting templates
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it | |
---|---|---|---|
{{highlight | text to highlight }} | text to highlight
|
Enclose text to highlight as an argument | |
{{notice | text to format as notice }} |
|
Enclose text (doesn't work in all contexts because it's a table) | |
{{prettytable}} |
border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#F9F9F9; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
|
On first line of table definition | |
{{=}} |
=
|
Inside templates where an = character is needed |
Message templates
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
---|---|---|
{{delete | reason=why to delete }} | Sysop, please delete this page. Reason: why to delete
|
Top of articles that you'd like a sysop to delete. |
{{disambig}} |
Bottom of articles that disambiguate terms that could have various meanings (disambiguation pages). Note: this template also places the article in Category:Disambiguation | |
{{editor | what=what needs attention }} | ((EDITOR: This page needs the following improvement: what needs attention )) |
Inside articles at location where an editor needs to address an issue. |
{{stub}} |
This article is a stub; it could use more information. Please help by supplying sufficient info for purposes of this wiki.
|
Bottom of articles that need more info. |
Pages actively being worked on. Please don't leave these lying around if you're not working on the page. | ||
{{underconstruction | notready=true }} | Pages actively being worked on and is not ready for use. Please don't leave these lying around if you're not working on the page. |
Article initialization templates
These templates are designed for one-time substitution into an article, to get the article layout initialized. To substitute the content of these templates into an article, use the syntax:
{{subst:name_of_template}}
Then save the page, then edit.
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
---|---|---|
{{ClassElement}} |
See template documentation
|
When used with "subst:"prefix ({{subst:ClassElement}}), fills in outline and sample text to get started on an article about a class or an element. |
{{TutorialSample}} |
See template documentation
|
When used with "subst:"prefix ({{subst:TutorialSample}}), fills in outline and sample text to get started on a how-to (tutorial) article . |
{{Domsub}} |
See template documentation
|
Note: This template is probably obsolete. When used with "subst:"prefix ({{subst:Domsub}}), fills in outline and sample text to get started on an article about a subsystem. |
Info-box templates
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
{{Conditioner | various arguments }} |
|
Top of each article that describes a COLLADA conditioner. Note: see the template itself for details about the arguments | ||||||
|
Top of articles that summarize or collect info on conditioners. | |||||||
{{Extension | various arguments }} |
|
Top of each article that describes a COLLADA extension. Note: see the template itself for details about the arguments | ||||||
{{Extensions | n/a }} | obsolete | Use Template:Extension | ||||||
|
Top of articles that summarize or collect info on extensions. | |||||||
{{Product | various arguments }} |
|
Top of each article that describes a product that imports, exports, or otherwise works with or interacts with COLLADA documents. Note: see the template itself for details about the arguments |
Tutorial templates
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
{{DOM navigation}} |
|
Bottom of articles that are part of the Portal:COLLADA DOM. | |||
{{DOMversion | {{{arg}}} }} |
|
Put at top of DOM tutorial articles to indicate what version the page is current for. | |||
{{Tutorials}} |
|
Top of tutorial article or first in related set of articles forming a single tutorial. |
Category templates
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
---|---|---|
{{addtocategory | description }} | The following is an automatically collected, alphabetic list of subcategories and articles that have been flagged as pertaining to this category. To add an article to this list, add the following to the end of the article: [[Help:List of COLLADA wiki templates]] |
Top of Category pages. Note: this template fills in name of category, not "COLLADA wiki templates" |
To add an image to this list, just add the following to the end of the image's description page: [[Help:List of COLLADA wiki templates]] |
Top of image Category pages. Note: this template fills in name of category, not "COLLADA wiki templates" | |
{{addtemplatetocategory | what = what the templates in this catg do }} | This is a list of templates that what the templates in this catg do. To add a template to this category, include the text:
<noinclude>[[Help:List of COLLADA wiki templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>
|
Top of template Category pages. Note: this template fills in name of category, not "COLLADA wiki templates" |
Site templates
These templates are used in the construction of other templates, for more specific system administration or page construction, or are otherwise less likely to be of use to a general user.
Color templates
To make it easier to switch color themes. See Help:Color schemes for wiki for what these colors look like:
What to type | What it produces | Which is | Where to put it | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
#FFF2DF
|
In color= args | |||
#FFD284
|
In color= args | |||
{{Site color 1 mid}} |
#FFAE1F
|
In color= args | ||
#A66D0A
|
In color= args | |||
#F5FAFF
|
In color= args | |||
#779BD4
|
In color= args | |||
{{Site color 2 mid}} |
#2256A9
|
In color= args | ||
#0B316E
|
In color= args | |||
#FAF5FF
|
In color= args | |||
#8C7CD8
|
In color= args | |||
{{Site color 3 mid}} |
#4029B0
|
In color= args | ||
#1E0D73
|
In color= args | |||
#F5FFFA
|
In color= args | |||
#6CD0BF
|
In color= args | |||
{{Site color 4 mid}} |
#14A28A
|
In color= args | ||
#066958
|
In color= args | |||
#FAEAEA
|
In color= args | |||
#E6918B
|
In color= args | |||
#CC4439
|
In color= args | |||
#851B13
|
In color= args | |||
#F0EDE9
|
In color= args | |||
#BFBCB6
|
In color= args | |||
#807D79
|
In color= args | |||
#403F3D
|
In color= args | |||
#F5FAFF
|
In color= args | These templates aren't hard-coded with color numbers; they're set to the preceding site colors. Use edit on a template to see how that's done. | ||
#779BD4
|
In color= args | |||
#2256A9
|
In color= args | |||
#0B316E
|
In color= args | |||
#F5FFFA
|
In color= args | |||
#6CD0BF
|
In color= args | |||
#14A28A
|
In color= args | |||
#066958
|
In color= args | |||
#FFF2DF
|
In color= args | |||
#FFD284
|
In color= args | |||
#FFAE1F
|
In color= args | |||
#A66D0A
|
In color= args | |||
#F0EDE9
|
In color= args | |||
#BFBCB6
|
In color= args | |||
#807D79
|
In color= args | |||
#403F3D
|
In color= args |
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
---|---|---|
{{portalheader | various arguments }} | Welcome to the {{{title}}} portal
{{{description}}} Portals: • Products • Extensions • Tools • Conditioners • COLLADA DOM • Coherency Test • Tech topics • Tutorials |
Top of portal pages. |
{{helpTOC}} |
Top of Help articles. |
System administration templates
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
---|
Templates for constructing templates and similar underpinnings
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
{{box-header | title=Title for box }} | edit
Title for box |
Constructs header with edit link for use in "subpages" on Main page, portals, and similar things. | |||
{{NavigationBox | various arguments }} |
|
General format for creating navigation boxes such as Template:DOM navigation
Note: see the template itself for details about the arguments | |||
{{Tplink | template_name }} | Used in the left column of this article for displaying template info for templates with no arguments | ||||
{{Tplinkarg | various args }} | Used in the left column of this article for displaying template info for templates with one argument (for more than one, say "various arguments" and refer to template documentation). |
For FAQ and help desk pages
And other places where you want to control people adding a single heading and (usually) a single paragraph or so to the article.
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
---|---|---|
{{addnewsection | actiontext=what user achieves }} | Now you may
. |
In FAQ or help desk or similar article AFTER instructions on how you want people to add new sections/questions. "what user achieves" might be "ask a question", "add a new FAQ", etc. |
{{howtoask}} |
How to ask a question
|
Use before addnewsection in help desk type articles. |
{{howtoanswer}} |
How to answer a question
|
Use after addnewsection in help desk type articles. |
{{howtopost}} |
How to post a new FAQ (question and answer) using the following link
|
(Don't use at the moment...see following) |
{{howtopostfaq}} |
You can post a new question with an answer using the following link:
|
Use before addnewsection in FAQ type articles. |