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    • CamelCasedWords that should NOT be a wiki page

    Posted by brandte007 posts: 7

    I am developing a site for my Rotary Club using TikiWiki. Most of our users are relatively computer UNSAVVY and and do not understand the "?" that shows up after Mr. McKay's name.

    I understand that tiki thinks this is a link to an yet unwritten wiki page, but Mr. McKay is concerned about always having a red "?" after his name. I could make it go away by creating the wiki page, but then his name will always be a hyperlink 😕

    Is there a way to create an exclusion list for certain CamelCased words? What about hyphenated words like Non-Profit?

    Thank you, Eric

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4668 Japan

    I suggest leaving "Use WikiWords" unchecked (turned off) on the Admin Wiki page (tiki-admin.php?page=wiki). This means no "camel case" words will be links. Instead, to make a link, use double parentheses, like this: ((link)).

    To me this is simpler and avoids unintentional would-be links.

    If for some reason you want to stick with CamelCase words for links but want to have exceptions, then you can use "inverted" double parentheses like this to make an exception: ))CamelCase(( results in ))CamelCase((.

    -- Gary


    Posted by brandte007 posts: 7

    Gary,
    Thank you for that. This engine is so well featured, that sometimes the obvious escapes you 😉

    That was a perfect fix! I have turned off the WikiWords as I am already in the habit of ((linking)) my pages 😊


    Posted by George Greene posts: 257 United States

    Gary,

    If you've been allowing CamelCase for a while (years now) and then turn it off, what happens to the old CamelCase Links?

    Geo

    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4668 Japan

    > If you've been allowing CamelCase for a while (years now) and then turn it off, what happens to the old CamelCase Links?

    I just did a test (in 1.9.7) and they become ordinary text. There apparently isn't an automatic conversion to the other link format. Looks like the format needs to be set initially and not changed or else there'll be a lot of editing to do. Probably somebody smarter than me would know how to run a regex script on the wiki pages table data to make all the conversions. 😉

    -- Gary

    Posted by George Greene posts: 257 United States
    Whew! Guess I wont make that change!