Template talk:Convertbs

Couldn't get it to work

Resolved

Thanks for creating this template, but I couldn't get it to work on the Kalka–Shimla railway route map; however, using the

{{#invoke:Routemap|convertbs|<nowiki>

</nowiki>}}

markup at {{Routemap}} worked. All the best, Miniapolis 17:41, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

@Miniapolis: Did you save the page before copying the diagram text out of the page preview? This template should function identically to the longer code in the {{Routemap}} documentation; I created this primarily because I didn't like copying and pasting the conversion code. Jc86035 (talk) 13:52, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

That awful diff happened because I didn't fully understand the instructions at Template:Routemap/doc#Function convertbs at the time. Unfortunately, I don't remember why {{Convertbs}} didn't seem to work; I tried it first, as the simpler option. If you know of any old tables which still need conversion, I can try it again in my sandbox. All the best, Miniapolis 14:10, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

@Miniapolis: Oh, it's probably because you replaced the table code at the start and end with this template's code. I'll add a note about that to the documentation pages. Jc86035 (talk) 14:45, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

It turns out it didn't work with {{BS-table}}. It should work now. Jc86035 (talk) 14:58, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot; that was probably the problem, and I don't understand template code well enough to have figured it out. All the best, Miniapolis 15:05, 23 March 2018 (UTC)