Talk:SimpleForms categorisation example

Missing something?

I get

*Select category{{#dpl: namespace = Category | mode = userformat | listseparators = ,\n*%TITLE%,, }}

in the dropdown list instead of the categories. Am I missing another extension? If so, what is it? Thanks, --Paulhat 07:52, 7 July 2007 (NZST)

I found my problem. I had an old version of DPL. They've been busy. --Paulhat 08:07, 7 July 2007 (NZST)

Yeah they're almost coming out with a new version every week! --Nad 10:03, 7 July 2007 (NZST)

Recent categories take a while to appear in the list

I've been using something like this on my test wiki. When a new category is added it takes a few pages refreshes for it to appear in the category list. Perhaps there is some caching going on. I've got the simpleform in a template that I use in the wikiskin article. --Rob 12:38, 10 October 2007 (NZDT)

If its a big wiki it may be because the catlinks are getting updated in a job queue - I thought this only happened when over 100000 needed to be updated though... --Nad 12:44, 10 October 2007 (NZDT)

Category does not get added

When I use this example, the category does not get added. Instead, it just adds [[Category:]] even though I selected an actual category. This happens for me when I am categorizing the current page, an existing page with no existing categories, an existing page with existing categories, or a new page. Looking at your example page, it appears this is also happening. Do you have any ideas about what I might be doing wrong? Also, can you provide a referenec where I might be able to read about what is happening in the onChange part of the code? I understand the DPL query and the rest of the simple forms code, but I do not know what is going on in the onChange part of the code. Thanks --Matt

I suspect it is a browser specific javascript issue, what browser? It just worked for me --Sven 23:06, 11 January 2008 (NZDT)

You are right. I tried it in Netscape and it worked perfectly. However, it does not work on IE6 or IE7. Any suggestions about how I can get it to work with IE?

Thanks --Matt

We need to identify what Javascript differences are causing the AJAX requests to fail depending on the browser. The new Extension:Selenium.php might be useful here for creating automated browser specific tests where a certain output is expected -See Special:Selenium --Sven 09:40, 13 January 2008 (NZDT)