Features / Usability

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 02 May 2007 02:28 GMT-0000 posts: 4668

I guess by "wiki" you mean "wiki page"? Usually, "wiki" refers to all the pages collectively. There are modules that list wiki pages, such as Last Changes (last_modif_pages) that lists the most recently created or edited pages and (Top Pages) top_pages that lists the pages with the most hits. These modules can be displayed either in a side column or in a wiki page. I'm not sure but I think they are sensitive to user access rights.

Maybe there isn't an "all pages" module because this would be too long a list for most cases. Instead there is the List Pages (tiki-list_pages.php) link, in the menu under Wiki. This page lists all wiki pages, along with some information about them. Again I assume it only shows pages a user has permission to see. I haven't tested that in a while.

Maybe some combination of these will do the job. You can arrange the modules or make a more prominent link to List Pages, etc.

-- Gary

Posted by George Greene 02 May 2007 15:13 GMT-0000 posts: 257

Chibaguy!

I'm wondering the same thing and I am just beginning to wrap my head around Categories and Structures. My understanding, however, resembles Swiss cheeze at this point.

It appears to me they may work for organizing pages as seromine asked about. Is there a simple explanation (or site example) of these that might orient me toward a better understanding of how I might apply them in (re)designing my TW? I'm kinda looking for a high level picture and once I get that I can probably drill down to details myself.

I did monkey around with Categories and it looks like they provide the hierarchical structure but I'm not sure how to display/present these to users.

Uncle Geo

Posted by seromine 02 May 2007 15:57 GMT-0000 posts: 130

I really appreciate the input and the discussion. I too am in the "wrap my head around" mode. I have worked with CMS's before (never specifically Wiki's), and I know you just need to get a feel for the structure and then your golden. I am not there yet with TikiWiki (:confused

List WikiPages would be fine as well, if I couldnt show it on the main WikiPage....I have also seen something like this? On another posting somebody said this is done with a command...can anyone point me to some tutorial on how to use this command?
http://edu.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php

Take a look at the following, how was this done? Notice the nice neat links to other documents? Was this done by some type of categories, structure capability?
http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Documentation

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> We are currently trying to configure TikiWiki for our library, specifically just the wiki portion now, but I have to admit it is proving to be more difficult than I thought. I am hoping somebody can shed some light and get me going in the right direction.
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> The main issue I am having now is how to display on the wiki homepage the available wikis, and even more preferrably, the wikis a particular user has access to....preferrably this would be dynamic, meaning that somebody wouldnt have to edit the homepage each and every time a new wiki is created....is there anyway to do this?
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