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If the help page has not yet been created there will appear a link to it instead of its not-yet-existing content, just as with not-yet-created templates. | If the help page has not yet been created there will appear a link to it instead of its not-yet-existing content, just as with not-yet-created templates. | ||
=== Why? === | |||
The idea of (no)including a help page in a template page is that users can see usage instructions for a template when viewing the template page, but at the same time they won't get the whole of the usage instructions included when they use <code><nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>''templatename''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>, but only the single line | The idea of (no)including a help page in a template page is that users can see usage instructions for a template when viewing the template page, but at the same time they won't get the whole of the usage instructions included when they use <code><nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>''templatename''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>, but only the single line | ||
<nowiki><noinclude>{{Templatehelp}}</noinclude></nowiki> | <nowiki><noinclude>{{Templatehelp}}</noinclude></nowiki> | ||
which can then easily be removed. | which can then easily be removed. | ||
The idea behind <code>[[Template:Templatehelp]]</code> itself | |||
is of course to avoid inconsitency in the naming of templates and their related help pages. | |||
=== A snag === | |||
I wish you shouldn't have to put <code><nowiki>{{Templatehelp}}</nowiki></code> inside <code><nowiki><noinclude>...</noinclude></nowiki></code> tags, but there seems to be no way to avoid that. As things are those tags are of course very important! | |||
Revision as of 08:44, 15 November 2006
Usage
If you put
<noinclude>{{Templatehelp}}</noinclude>
at the end of your template text the text of a like-named page in the Help: namespace.
For example the page Help:Voweltable will be included when you view the page Template:Voweltable but not when you actually use
{{Voweltable|parameters}}
in the body of another page.
If the help page has not yet been created there will appear a link to it instead of its not-yet-existing content, just as with not-yet-created templates.
Why?
The idea of (no)including a help page in a template page is that users can see usage instructions for a template when viewing the template page, but at the same time they won't get the whole of the usage instructions included when they use {{subst:templatename}}, but only the single line
<noinclude>{{Templatehelp}}</noinclude>
which can then easily be removed.
The idea behind Template:Templatehelp itself
is of course to avoid inconsitency in the naming of templates and their related help pages.
A snag
I wish you shouldn't have to put {{Templatehelp}} inside <noinclude>...</noinclude> tags, but there seems to be no way to avoid that. As things are those tags are of course very important!
Make sure to put
<noinclude>{{Templatehelpnote}}</noinclude>
at the top of your help page! (Cf. Template:Templatehelpnote)
