Does XWiki support including pages with parameters, like MediaWiki templates?

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I’m looking at using XWiki to create documents that are all identical in form, but have different content in fields. In MediaWIki, I would do this by creating a template and filling in the fields as template parameters (e.g. {{template:test|param1=value1|param2=value2}}). This is because I’d like to be able to update the template page, and have those changes automatically appear on the including pages, preferably with some kind of text if we’ve introduced a new parameter that needs to be filled in.

Does XWiki support anything like this?

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oh yes! That’s even XWiki’s strong point :slight_smile:

In short you’d create a template page but inside this page you’d use some script whenever you wish to have a dynamic behavior. In those scripts you’d get data for example from an xobject. The simplest is to follow the FAQ tutorial, see http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/DevGuide/Tutorials/FAQTutorial/FAQTutorialManual