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    • Wiki Confusion

    Posted by dbmasters

    OK, I am setting up Tiki as a collaborative environment for a few of my companies project teams. I have set up the server, installe dit, got user, groups, permissions and that all layed out, and got it skinned and functional. Working VERY nicely (kudos to yo developers). I got forums working with private access based on groups, news article categories based on groups, as well as file gallaries.

    Wiki has me very confused. I don't use Wiki, I am not familiar with it, but the teams want it. OK, I figured how much hard can it be than forums and stuff...

    Weeeellllllllll, I don't get it, what is a "structure" and a "tree" can I set up individual wiki's for each group? how? can they be set to only be viewed with their own group? if so, how?

    Can anyone give me a 20,000 flyover view of the Wiki concept and deployment? Pleeeaaaase.

    Thanks Muchly.

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    Posted by mcbutler

    Since your reply was from 10 months ago, I thought I'd see if anything's been updated, so:

    is there an easier way now for an admin to allow a group to have restricted group-only access to a set of pages other than change the permissions in each and every page to allow that group access?

    Thanks in advance, Melissa


    Posted by Damian Parker

    yo!

    Ok a structure is a collection or group of Wiki pages, held together in a tree. Ok I guess an example is in order, imagine your writing some user docs and your going to use the Wiki to write these docs in. Ideally you would create a structure based on the name of these docs:

    • UserDocs
      • Introduction
      • System Requirements
        • Apple Macintosh
        • PC
        • PocketPC
      • Installation
        • Standalone
        • Network


    UserDocs is the name of our structure
    Introduction, System Requirements and Installation are like Chapters
    and the others are link subchapters. That layout is called the "Tree"

    so to sum up a structure is a way of organising your wiki pages into some form of controlled order.
    At the moment you can only set permissions on each individual wiki page. But this isnt a big deal once you have the original layout defined. I use these wiki structures a lot on http://www.damosoft.co.ukQuestion for my customer user docs

    The Wiki concept, well. thats easy to sum up as like a open or permission controlled web document, that anyone with the write permissions can edit without needing to know any HTML or have any HTML skills. I'm such if you google on wiki concept you will get a better description 😉

    Enjoy Tiki!

    Damian

    You can always post back with what you find or if you want to probe deeper 😊

    Posted by mcbutler

    Since your reply was from 10 months ago, I thought I'd see if anything's been updated, so:

    is there an easier way now for an admin to allow a group to have restricted group-only access to a set of pages other than change the permissions in each and every page to allow that group access?

    Thanks in advance, Melissa

    Posted by emagin

    How would one go about creating a menu on the left column dynamically showing the of the CURRENT structure?

    I read this thread but don't really get it.
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