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This template enables the automatic selection of a forum for one of the United States or US Territories.

Usage

Place {{RC/Forum}} on a page where a URL to a state or region forum is desired. It uses the data in {{RC/Data}}.

{{RC/Forum
| STATENAME or 
  STATE ABBREVIATION or
  REGION NAME
| state-id or 
  region-id
}}

First parameter

STATENAME - The full name of the state or territory (Alaska, California, Texas, etc.)

STATE ABBREVIATION - The two letter state abbreviation (AK, CA, TX, etc.)

REGION NAME - The full name of the region (Northwest, New England, etc.)

Second parameter

state-id will return a URL to the state specific forum.

region-id will return a URL to the region specific forum.

(Note: the parameters are maintained in {{RC/Data/Core}}.

Entering:

[{{RC/Forum | AK | state-id}} Alaska forum]

Entering:

[{{RC/Forum | Northwest | region-id}} Northwest region forum]

This template suite also uses the following templates:

{{RC/USA}} - Link to USA Wiki page and forum
{{RC/Region}} - Link to Region Wiki page and forum
{{RC/CommonRegion}} - Default content for regional pages if not already created
{{RC/Forum}} - Generates HTML link based on Region name and requested data
{{RC/Data}} - The database holding all the regional coordinator related data
{{RC/Data/Core}} - The translation of text for parameters to the {{RC/Data}} content
{{RC/TableRow}} - Generates the main content for the RC table