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== Parser function '''<code>#show</code>''' ==

''This material is extracted from https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries''

A common usage of queries is to display only a single property value for a single page. For example, one could insert the population of Berlin into some page, and use a query instead of manual copying to achieve this. SMW provides a special shortcut parser function to make such queries simpler: <code>#show</code>. For example, one can write the following to display the population of Berlin on a page:

; Syntax
<pre>
{{#show: Demo:Berlin |?Population }}
</pre>

; Result
{{#show: Demo:Berlin |?Population }}

The parser function otherwise works like an inline query, and all parameters available for inline queries can also be used on <code>#show</code> if desired. However note that the <code>#show</code> parser function only takes one argument (a page) as the query condition, i.e. the name of the page that should be queried.

The above query written with the <code>#ask</code> parser function looks as follows:

; Syntax
<pre>
{{#ask: [[Demo:Berlin]] |?Population= |mainlabel=- }}
</pre>

; Result
{{#ask: [[Demo:Berlin]] |?Population= |mainlabel=- }}

Here the "<code>=</code>" added to the queried property "<code>?Population</code>" removes the display of the property label and parameter "<code>mainlabel=</code>" followed by the "<code>-</code>" symbol removes the first result column and the label of the column.

Without this, the result would display a table with two columns and rows:

; Syntax
<pre>
{{#ask: [[Berlin]] |?Population }}
</pre>

; Result
{{#ask: [[Berlin]] |?Population }}

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