CivilWarTalk
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Have you ever created a group of articles, and found that you kept re-using the same chunk of content over and over again?
Maybe it was a list you had to include for a product or a profile you posted each time you created a new article. Each time you wrote the article you found yourself repeating yourself. Maybe it was just boilerplate language you had to include each time you made one of these posts.
If you were smart, maybe you created a document somewhere you could copy and paste the layout to your new article, that made creating your article faster right?
But what happened if you decided to adjust your template because your forum skin was updated, or the coding changed, or maybe new information was included and you needed to update add more information to your template.
Now, all your old articles might be out of date, and all would need to be updated one by one.
Wouldn't be nice to be able to create a template somewhere in the forum, (I'm thinking, just like the function of a template in a wiki template, think MediaWiki) and then when you created the template, you could recall that chunk of text or graphics and insert it anywhere you would normally insert them in an article, even multiple times in a single article if that was needed.
Extra credit if you can pass data through the template, so that the template can format and display the content in any special way, no matter how complicated, you only need to create it once!
Then later, if you wanted, you could edit your template and update it, in turn updating all the articles the templates are included in.
This would be a powerful tool to include in Articles! Not to mention it's like a shortcut for creating repeated content.
I suggest a feature like this be included in an upcoming version of XenForo.
Maybe it was a list you had to include for a product or a profile you posted each time you created a new article. Each time you wrote the article you found yourself repeating yourself. Maybe it was just boilerplate language you had to include each time you made one of these posts.
If you were smart, maybe you created a document somewhere you could copy and paste the layout to your new article, that made creating your article faster right?
But what happened if you decided to adjust your template because your forum skin was updated, or the coding changed, or maybe new information was included and you needed to update add more information to your template.
Now, all your old articles might be out of date, and all would need to be updated one by one.
Wouldn't be nice to be able to create a template somewhere in the forum, (I'm thinking, just like the function of a template in a wiki template, think MediaWiki) and then when you created the template, you could recall that chunk of text or graphics and insert it anywhere you would normally insert them in an article, even multiple times in a single article if that was needed.
Extra credit if you can pass data through the template, so that the template can format and display the content in any special way, no matter how complicated, you only need to create it once!
Then later, if you wanted, you could edit your template and update it, in turn updating all the articles the templates are included in.
This would be a powerful tool to include in Articles! Not to mention it's like a shortcut for creating repeated content.
I suggest a feature like this be included in an upcoming version of XenForo.
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