View source for Help:Special property Display units 1.0 - 1.5.6

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{{Special property
| property name=Display units
| minimum version=1.0
| component=Semantic MediaWiki
| description=Specifies the a comma-separated list of units or formats that a property should use in display
| property alias=Display unit
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The '''Display units''' property is a [[Help:Special properties|special property]] in [[Semantic MediaWiki]] with a built-in meaning: it specifies the a comma-separated list of units or formats that a property should use in display. In English the name ''display unit'' is an alias for this property.

When used on property pages that have a datatype that supports [[Help:Custom units|units]], the effect is that all printouts will show the values only in the given units, and only in their given order. If a property does not specify any display units, then it will appear converted into all units supported by its [[Help:Properties and types|type]]. You can add this special property to a property page to limit the display, or to control the unit name used (e.g. display "mins" instead of "minutes").  The additional unit conversions appear in the tooltip and [[Help:Browsing interfaces#The factbox|Factbox]] and some search results. Note that even if you limit the display of units, you can still specify a property value using any unit that the underlying type supports.

For example, see on ontoworld.org how [[semweb:Property:Age]] displays ages in years and converted into seconds, but not into other time units like days, minutes, or hours that its [[semweb:Type:Time]] also supports.

See the property page [[Property:Display units|Display units]] to see which pages use this special property on this wiki.

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