Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150803154317

It seems that even regular templates can't transclude parts of the infobox, and though it may sometimes be understandable this seems a bit extreme.

I can think of a lot of use cases where we'd use regular templates.

Scenario 1: A character infobox that changes overtime and covers different range of characters. A human and a monster for example may share many traits but the human may not for example have 20 hands or have increasingly more characteristics, 100 wives and so forth.

Scenario 2: A repeating box, that contains nothing more than similar data used previously. For example in c:duolingo:XP the table on the right hand side (not really an infobox) contains a lot of repeating information. Theoretically, it can probably be calculated using a few lines and some code. Yet to populate that infobox I would have to create 25 groups for no good reason.

My suggestion is that an option be added to the group tag that allows us to repeat a group, e.g.

This way, to add repeating data, I'd have something like

I'm not sure this is feasible or doable with the current potBoxes implementation, but it is easy to do with lua, and would still be easy to do if templates could be transcluded inside the tag.