Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-6327978-20140912182126

Okay, so here's the deal. I have this template which is just a way of putting a linked image into a little table (an example of it being used is here). Recently I figured out that this isn't that convenient in the event you need to add or remove something from the whole collection, which would necessitate editing every item in that collection and blah blah blah.

I've seen 'database' templates used on other wikias before (and I had even cobbled one myself a long time ago for a different wiki). The idea being that you have one huge template which stores data values, which you pull using another template. That way you can just update the database template and all the others update automatically.

So I created a sample of the database named Template:Setdata and a new setbox template named Template:Set to use it with. However, I'm missing something and I can't really figure out what I'm doing, which is why I wrote this long message. I've only started editing the page but run up against an issue -- no matter what I do with the syntax, it doesn't want to spit out the icon image like it should. Here's me using what I have so far on a test page. It PRINTS the file/image name, but doesn't actually convert it to an image, and I can't figure out what's doing that. (Ideally if I got that working, I could get it to link the image after that, but...) Help? :C 