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<td> <b><a href="/index.php?title=Editor%27s_Creed" title="Editor's Creed">Editor's Creed</a></b> - <a href="/index.php?title=Wikicode_for_Beginners" title="Wikicode for Beginners">Wikicode for Beginners</a> - <a href="/index.php?title=How_to_use_Templates" title="How to use Templates">How to use Templates</a>
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<p>We are setting up individual templates for each ability, spell, animus, etc on Battle College. There's two ways you can create a new one, and there's pros and cons to each.
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<ol><li> The quick & dirty way
<ul><li> <b>Pro</b>: You finish quickly, so it gives you more time working on model pages (the "real" content).</li>
<li> <b>Con</b>: It creates categories that self-reference themselves.</li>
<li> <b>Con</b>: It completely mis-categorises "nested" abilities (things like how Ghost Walk grants Ghostly)</li>
<li> <b>Con</b>: You'll create errors with "same-named" abilities/models (<a href="/index.php?title=Malice" title="Malice">Malice, the Cryx warjack</a> vs <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Malice" title="Category:Malice">Malice, the spell</a> for example).</li>
<li> <b>Con</b>: It means more work later for someone to correct the errors.</li>
<li> <b>Con</b>: It might be hard to track down and correct when everything is 95% complete.</li></ul></li>
<li> The long & proper way
<ul><li> <b>Pro</b>: The opposite of all the cons above.</li>
<li> <b>Con</b>: It takes (slightly) longer.</li></ul></li></ol>
<p>Method 1 is favoured by people who view getting the templates correct as "worrying about the wallpaper before the walls are built". Method 2 is favoured by those as see it as "making sure your foundations are sound before you build the house".
</p><p>Either way, there's work to be done. Start wherever you think is important.
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<h1><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Quick_.26_Dirty_way">The Quick & Dirty way</span></h1>
<pre>'''[[NAME]]''' - DESCRIPTION [[Category:NAME]]</pre>
<p>Say you want to create a new ability called <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">Teething Rings</span>
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<ol><li> Navigate to <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">http://battlecollege.org/index.php/Template:Teething Rings</span></li>
<li> Copy this text into the new template:
<dl><dd> <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">'''[[Teething Rings]]''' - this model can be bitten by a toddler.[[Category:Teething Rings]]</span></dd></dl></li>
<li> Save.</li>
<li> This template can now be added to any page by typing in <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">{{Teething Rings}}</span></li></ol>
<h1><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Long_.26_Proper_way">The Long & Proper way</span></h1>
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An explanation of what the code is doing is included right at the bottom of the page, if you're curious about why it is the way it is.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_1:Create_the_template">Part 1:Create the template</span></h2>
<pre>'''[[:Category:NAME|NAME]]''' - DESCRIPTION {{{Hide_Cat|<includeonly>[[Category:NAME]]</includeonly>}}}<noinclude>[[Category:INC Template]]</noinclude></pre>
<ol><li> Navigate to the new template's name. <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">http://battlecollege.org/index.php/Template:NAME</span></li>
<li> Copy the above text, and change NAME and DESCRIPTION as appropriate.
<dl><dd> Note that NAME in step 1 and 2 need to match, and they're case-sensitive.</dd></dl></li>
<li> Save</li></ol>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_2:Create_the_category">Part 2:Create the category</span></h2>
<pre>{{QuickCat
|Name=NAME}}
[[Category:Spell]]
[[Category:Animus]]
[[Category:Weapon ability]]
[[Category:Model ability]]
[[Category:Model type]]</pre>
<ol><li>After you save the template, you'll see a red link. Click on it and it will take it you to a category page.
<dl><dd> This category will be empty, since you haven't used the template any where else yet.</dd></dl></li>
<li> Copy the above text into the category page, and change NAME to the same one you used in Part 1.
<dl><dd> Note that NAME needs to exactly match the one you used in part 1, and they're case-sensitive.</dd></dl></li>
<li> Delete whichever categories aren't relevant to your new ability.</li>
<li> Save</li></ol>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_3:Create_the_Rules_Clarification_.28optional.2C_but_strongly_encouraged.29">Part 3:Create the Rules Clarification (optional, but strongly encouraged)</span></h2>
<pre>{{RCbox|Name= NAME
|font_size={{{font_size2|85%}}}
|list=* Placeholder}}<noinclude>[[Category:RC Template]]</noinclude></pre>
<ol><li>After you save the category, you'll see a red link. Click on it and it will take it you to a Rules Clarification template.</li>
<li>Copy the above text into the template, and change NAME to the same one you used in Part 1.
<dl><dd> Note that NAME needs to exactly match the one you used in part 1, and they're case-sensitive.</dd></dl></li>
<li> Save</li></ol>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_4:Create_a_redirect_.28optional.29">Part 4:Create a redirect (optional)</span></h2>
<pre>#redirect [[:Category:NAME]]</pre>
<ol><li>Navigate to <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">http://battlecollege.org/index.php/NAME</span></li>
<li>Copy the above text into the template, and change NAME to the same one you used in Part 1.
<dl><dd> Note that NAME needs to exactly match the one you used in part 1, and they're case-sensitive.</dd></dl></li></ol>
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<h1><span class="mw-headline" id="Nested_Abilities">Nested Abilities</span></h1>
<p>In this section, we go over how to create abilities that grant other abilities. The Granter is referred to as the "Nest" and the Granted ability is referred to as the "Egg". An example of a nested ability is:
</p><p>|-
|colspan=7 style="text-align:left; font-size:110%; border-right: 1px solid #fff; border-left: 1px solid #fff;"|
|colspan=1 style="text-align:left; font-size:110%; border-right: 1px solid #fff; border-left: 1px solid #fff; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;"|
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|style="text-align:left; font-size:110%; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; border-left: 1px solid #fff;" rowspan=1| <b><a href="/index.php?title=Category:Ghost_Walk" title="Category:Ghost Walk">Ghost Walk</a></b>

! style="border-top: 1px solid #A8A8A8;"| 2
</p><p>! 6
</p><p>! -
</p><p>! -
</p><p>! Turn
</p><p>! <span style="font-size:80%">No</span>
</p><p>|style="border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; border-right: 1px solid #fff; border-left: 1px solid #fff; border-top: 1px solid #fff;"|
|-
|colspan=8 style="text-align:left; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; border-right: 1px solid #fff; border-left: 1px solid #fff; border-top: 1px solid #fff;"|Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Ghostly for one turn.
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<dl><dd> <i><b><a href="/index.php?title=Category:Ghostly" title="Category:Ghostly">Ghostly</a></b> - A model with Ghostly can advance through terrain and obstacles without penalty and can advance through obstructions if it has enough movement to move completely past them. It cannot be targeted by free strikes.</i>.</dd></dl>
<p>The issue is, we want Ghost Walk itself to be in <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Ghostly" title="Category:Ghostly">Category:Ghostly</a>, but we don't want every spellcaster that has Ghost Walk to <b>also</b> be in <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Ghostly" title="Category:Ghostly">Category:Ghostly</a>. So we need to suppress Ghostly's auto-categorisation when it's put into the Nest.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_1:_Create_the_.22egg.22_ability_template">Part 1: Create the "egg" ability template</span></h2>
<p>This is simple - set it up like we described above.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_2:_Create_the_.22nest.22_ability_template">Part 2: Create the "nest" ability template</span></h2>
<pre>'''[[:Category:NEST_NAME|NEST_NAME]]''' - DESCRIPTION (''{{EGG_NAME|Hide_Cat=}}''){{{Hide_Cat|<includeonly>[[Category:NEST_NAME]]</includeonly>}}}<noinclude>[[Category:INC Template]]</noinclude></pre>
<p>Example:
</p><p><span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">'''[[:Category:Ghost Walk|Ghost Walk]]''' - target model/unit gains Ghostly. (''{{Ghostly|Hide_Cat=}}''){{{Hide_Cat|<includeonly>[[Category:Ghost Walk]</includeonly>}}}<noinclude>[[Category:INC Template]]</noinclude></span>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Part_3:_Create_the_.22nest.22_ability_category">Part 3: Create the "nest" ability category</span></h2>
<pre>{{QuickCat
|Name= NEST_NAME}}
[[Category: EGG_NAME]]
[[Category:Spell]]
[[Category:Animus]]
[[Category:Weapon ability]]
[[Category:Model ability]]
[[Category:Model type]]</pre>
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<h1><span class="mw-headline" id="Explanation">Explanation</span></h1>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_template">The template</span></h2>
<pre>'''[[:Category:NAME|NAME]]''' - DESCRIPTION {{{Hide_Cat|<includeonly>[[Category:NAME]]</includeonly>}}}<noinclude>[[Category:INC Template]]</noinclude></pre>
<ul><li> <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">'''[[:Category:NAME|NAME]]'''</span> creates a link to the category, and then displays it as a bold NAME.</li>
<li> <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">{{{Hide_Cat|<includeonly>[[Category:NAME]]</includeonly>}}}</span> both causes auto-categorisation, and allows users to suppress the auto-categorisation if they want to (such as when creating nested abilities). What it does, is it looks for a user that inputs something (anything) for Hide_Cat,
<ul><li> if the user does provide a value for Hide_Cat then it will display that input. </li>
<li> if they don't input anything (which is 99% of the time) then it'll default to adding the category. It also wraps it in includeonly tags so that the template itself doesn't wind up in the category.</li></ul></li>
<li> <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;"><noinclude>[[Category:INC Template]]</noinclude></span> Adds just the template itself to the INC Template category, for maintenance purposes only, really.</li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_nested_template">The nested template</span></h2>
<pre>'''[[:Category:NEST_NAME|NEST_NAME]]''' - DESCRIPTION (''{{EGG_NAME|Hide_Cat=}}''){{{Hide_Cat|<includeonly>[[Category:NEST_NAME]]</includeonly>}}}<noinclude>[[Category:EGG_NAME]] [[Category:INC Template]]</noinclude></pre>
<ul><li> <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">'''[[:Category:NEST_NAME|NEST_NAME]]''' - DESCRIPTION </span> Up to this point, this is exactly the same as a normal template.</li>
<li> <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">(''{{EGG_NAME|Hide_Cat=}}'')</span> This part inserts the EGG ability, and suppresses the EGG auto-category, and wraps it in italics & brackets.</li>
<li> <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">{{{Hide_Cat|<includeonly>[[Category:NEST_NAME]]</includeonly>}}}</span> is the same as a normal template, except we're auto-categorising to the NEST now (instead of to EGG). </li></ul>
<ul><li> Lastly, when setting up the QuickCat page, you need to add <span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">[[Category:EGG]]</span> manually because we suppressed it otherwise. </li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_category_page">The category page</span></h2>
<pre>{{QuickCat
|Name=NAME}}</pre>
<p>This is simply a shortcut. QuickCat stands for "Quickly make a Category page". It's a template that takes the NAME and inserts a few NAME-based links/templates. You can learn more about it at <a href="/index.php?title=Template:QuickCat" title="Template:QuickCat">Template:QuickCat</a>.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_nested_rules_clarification">The nested rules clarification</span></h2>
<pre>{{RCbox|Name= Nest_Name
|list=* Placeholder
|font_size={{{font_size2|85%}}}
{{RC Egg_Name|font_size2=100%}}
}}<noinclude>[[Category:RC Template]]</noinclude></pre>
<p>This uses <a href="/index.php?title=Template:RCbox" title="Template:RCbox">Template:RCbox</a> to create a standarised Rules Clarification, with the contents being "Placeholder". It also adds this new RC to the RC category.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_redirect">The redirect</span></h2>
<p><span style="background-color: #F0F0F0; width: 32px; border-style: outset; border-width: 1px; margin:0; padding:0 3px 0 3px; clear:none; font-weight:bold;">#redirect [[:Category:NAME]]</span>
Do I need to explain what this does?
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