Wiki nodes initially have no pages. When you navigate into a node for the first time, a default page called FrontPage is created automatically. To view the page, click the wiki node’s name and then click FrontPage. The FrontPage appears and shows a message that explains the page is empty and needs you to add content. That message is a link; click it to start editing the page. The wiki page editing form then appears.
Figure 1: Each empty wiki page presents a default message link you can click to edit the page.
Figure 2: The wiki page editing form lets you create and edit your page's content.
Follow these steps to use the wiki page editing form:
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Enter your content in the field that contains the text Write your content here…. This is a rich-text, WYSIWYG editor that is almost identical to the one used in the Blogs app. The only difference is that the wiki editor uses Creole instead of HTML as its source. Click the link Show Syntax Help if you need help with Creole syntax (e.g., syntax for text styling, header formatting, link creation, etc.). For a detailed explanation of the rest of the editor, see the Blogs documentation.
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If you want to attach files to the page, open the Attachments section of the form and add them via drag and drop or the Select Files button.
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If you want to associate a tag with the page, open the Categorization section and use the Select button to select an existing tag. You can also create a new tag by entering it in the Tags field and clicking Add. See the documentation on tags for more information.
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If you want to select an existing asset in the portal (e.g., a media file, blog post, etc.) to relate to the page, open the Related Assets section and use the Select button to select that asset.
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In the form’s Configuration section, you can set the page to use Creole (default), MediaWiki, plain text, or HTML. We recommend that you stick with the Creole format, as it allows for a much cleaner separation of content and code. You can also use the Configuration section to summarize your edit, and specify whether it’s a minor edit.
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Click Publish to publish the page when you’re done editing it.
As is common with wikis in general, if you link to a page that doesn’t exist, clicking that link opens the new page form with a note stating that the page doesn’t exist and that you are creating it.
Return to the wiki node view to see a list of the node’s top-level pages. If you
navigate to a page that has child pages, its child pages are listed. In these
page listings, each page’s Actions menu
() lists the following actions
you can take on the page:
Edit: Opens the page in the page editor.
Permissions: Lets you determine which roles can view, update, delete, subscribe to, or set permissions on the page, and add, update, or delete page discussions (comments).
Copy: Opens a page editor window with all the content from the source wiki page. You’re prompted to specify a new title for it.
Move: Opens a dialog that lets you rename the page or assign the page to a new parent page within the wiki node.
Subscribe (or Unsubscribe): Subscribes you to (or unsubscribes you from) notifications for the wiki page’s modifications.
Move to Recycle Bin: Moves the wiki node to the Recycle Bin.
Each wiki page has a check box next to it. When you select a page’s check box,
the Management Bar changes to show an Info icon
() and Recycle Bin icon
(
). To move the selected page
to the Recycle Bin, click the Recycle Bin icon. To get additional information
about the page via an info panel, click the Info icon. The info panel provides a
star icon that you can select to subscribe to the page’s modifications. The info
panel’s Details section displays the page’s summary, format, version, creation
and modification dates, number of attachments, and RSS link.
There are several more features in the wiki node view’s Management Bar. The Filter and Order menu orders the pages by title or modification date and filters them by page type. The arrows button sorts the pages in ascending or descending order. The search bar searches for pages.
The View Types button is next to the Info icon. It lets you choose how to display the pages. The View Types button’s icon depends on the selected view type:
List (): Shows the pages
in a list with an icon representing each page. Each page’s entry contains the
name of its author, when it was last modified, and its
workflow status (e.g.,
Approved, Draft, etc.).
Table (): Shows the
same information as the List view type, in a smaller list with no page icon.
Also, the page’s information is in columns and includes the revision number.
Figure 3: The wiki node's view in site administration has features that help you access and learn information about a wiki node's pages.