In this example, we create a query for customer data. The collected information is shown at the beginning of each customer page.
This requires 4 steps:
- Defining properties
- Creating a template
- Creating a form
- Creating a category
Defining properties
For our customer query, we define 3 properties:
- Location
- Contact person
- Date of first contact
- Switch to Special pages in the navigation menu Global Actions.
Link to the "Special pages" - Search for "property".
Create a property - Click Create a property. In the form, enter the name and data type for the first property:
Create the first property - Property name (1): Has location
- Data type (2): Text
- Click Save page (3). A message box might appear that shows you that the property is now being processed in the wiki. If this is the case, you can ignore this message for now.
Property gets processed
For each property, a page is created in the namespace Property in the wiki. This page contains the information about the data type.
- Switch back to Special:CreateProperty. Create the property Has contact person with data type Text as shown before.
- Switch back to Special:CreateProperty. Create the property Has first contact with data type Date.
You can review the properties in your wiki by going to the page Special:Properties.
The necessary properties for data collection are now available. In the next step, we create the template that will be included in our customer pages to display the customer data.
