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This template enables the automatic selection of a United States (or US Territory) forum or region name.
Usage
Place {{StateForum}} on a page where either a URL to a state or region forum is desired. Alternately the template can also determine the name of the region based on the state name or the states in a region. It uses the data in {{StateForum/List}}.
{{StateForum
| STATENAME or
STATE ABBREVIATION or
REGION NAME
| state-id or
region-id or
region-name or
regional-coordinator or
state-list or
state-list-long
}}Parameters
- 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 forum for that state's region.
- region-name will return the name of the region.
- regional-coordinator will return the username of the regional coordinator.
- state-list will return the abbreviated names of the states in the region.
- state-list-long will return the full names of the states in the region.
Examples
| Entering: | [{{StateForum | AK | state-id}} Alaska forum]
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Produces: Alaska forum
| Entering: | [{{StateForum | AK | region-id}} {{StateForum | AK | region-name}} region forum]
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Produces: http://www.waze.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=Northwest region forum
| Entering: | [{{StateForum | Northwest | region-id}} Northwest region forum]
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Produces: Northwest region forum
| Entering: | {{StateForum | Northwest | regional-coordinator}}
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Produces: http://www.waze.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=Error in Parameter to RC/Data or RC/Forum
| Entering: | {{Username |{{StateForum | Northwest | regional-coordinator}} }}
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Produces: http://www.waze.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=Error in Parameter to RC/Data or RC/Forum (in Parameter to RC/Data or RC/Forum PM)
(NOTE: The template currently requires no space between the | and the first parameter.)
| Entering: | {{StateForum | Northwest | state-list}}
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Produces: http://www.waze.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=AK/ID/MT/OR/WA/WY
| Entering: | {{StateForum | Northwest | state-list-long}}
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Produces: http://www.waze.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=Alaska / Idaho / Montana / Oregon / Washington / Wyoming