Author: kwwilliams

Description:
A lot of templates have arguments that are effectively enumeration types. Using the singlechart template from English Wikipedia as an example, the first argument has a limited range of actual values: things like UKrock, UKdance, UKdownload, Billboardhot100, etc. The template is structured as a switch statement that only does anything useful if it recognises the chart name. Otherwise, it just spits out a big red error message.

It would be good if I could encode that in the template data, something like

"1": 
 {
  "label": "Chart identifier",
  "description": "Chart name: recognized values are listed at",
  "type": "enum",
  "values":
    {
     "UKrock", "UKdance", "UKdownload", "Billboardhot100"
    }
  "required": true
 }

The template edit should then not allow freeform text entry while entering the template. Instead, it should provide a menu selection that only allows the editor to enter one of the recognized values.

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Severity: normal