Module:Team appearances list/doc explained

This module implements . Check there for usage documentation.

Modules

is invoked by to display a horizontal list showing the years a specified team participated in a specified competition. Each year of attendance is wikilinked to a corresponding article, while years the team did not compete (absences) are shown as disabled.

The names of the competition and team must be specified. Optionally, information for a competition can be defined in, and team information can be included:

• begin_year – The first year to be shown.
• end_year – The last year to be shown.
• Years the team did not attend the competition.

If begin_year or end_year are defined for a team, they set default values that can be overridden with parameters in the template.

If a team is defined for a particular competition, any absent years in the templace call are ignored (instead, the absences defined in the data module are used).

is used for testing. It shows the results for all competition/team pairs defined in the data module. The results are displayed at .

Changes should be performed in the sandbox modules, using the following for testing:

• – Uses the sandbox main and data modules.
• – Results for all competition/team pairs defined in the sandbox data module.

Errors

Parameters provided by the template are validated using the following rules.

Always:
    competition   required : non-empty string
    team          required : non-empty string

If competition is defined in data module:
    begin_year    optional : number from 1800 to 2100 inclusive
    end_year      optional : as above (and end_year >= begin_year)
else:
    begin_year    required : as above
    end_year      optional : as above
    interval      required : number from 1 to 30 inclusive

An invalid parameter causes an error to be displayed and places the page in the hidden category .