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The site number is shown on the far left column of each row of trunked system frequencies under the column named 'site'
 
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To find the group name, point your mouse at the blue box with the greater than sign in it on the left
 
To find the group name, point your mouse at the blue box with the greater than sign in it on the left

Revision as of 21:16, 11 December 2007

The RadioReference Wiki has some custom extensions. Many of these can be used to display dynamic data in the database of custom pages of information. They are currently as follows:

Ebay Search Results Wiki Display

You can display Ebay search results with the following tag:

<ebay>Your Search Here</ebay>

This extension is helpful for displaying used equipment on many of the equipment pages.

Trunked System Site Frequencies Wiki Display

You can display the frequencies for a Trunked Radio System in the database with the following tag:

<site>xxx|yy</site>

Where:

xxx = The Trunked Radio Database sid number 
yy  = The system's site number

Trunked System Talkgroups Wiki Display

You can display the talkgroups for a Trunked Radio System in the database with the following tag:

<tg>xxx|yyyyyyyyyyyy</tg>

Where:

xxx = The Trunked Radio Database sid number
yyyyyyyyyyyy  = The talkgroup group name

Determining sid, site and talkgroup group names

Determining the internal "sid" for a trunked system is easy, it is displayed in the URL for each trunked system entry:

Determining Trunked System SID

The site number is shown on the far left column of each row of trunked system frequencies under the column named 'site'

Finding the site number

To find the group name, point your mouse at the blue box with the greater than sign in it on the left

File:Talkgroup.JPG

Conventional Frequencies Wiki Display

You can display conventional frequencies stored in the database with the following tag:

<freqsubcat>xxx</freqsubcat>

Where:

xxx = The Frequency Subcategory ID 

You can find the subcat ID by pointing your mouse to the left, at a blue box with the greater than sign

File:Conventional.JPG

Displaying Updated Frequencies and Talkgroups

You've submitted changes to the database, they've been entered - why can't I see the changes on the Wiki?

The reason is that you are getting your old page from the Wiki's page cache. What is needed is to clear the cache, so the Wiki is forced to rebuild a new article, and the extensions will pull the updated information. To do this, add the statement ?action=purge to the end of the URL, then press enter.

It's recommended that all articles that use the extensions to pull frequencies and talkgroups add a link at the bottom of the article for this purpose. Using the <small> tag will keep it out of the way of the rest of the details. For example

<small>[http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Andrews_Air_Force_Base%2C_MD?action=purge Refresh] this page from the latest database entry</small>