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Features / Usability


Documents editing

posts: 6

Hi everybody,
is it possible with TikiWiki to share and edit users documents, like with Google Documents?


Thank you
Carmelo

posts: 289 United States

If you want to keep files in their original format e.g. You want multiple users to access and edit a Microsoft Word document, the no, you can't edit files online. You can use the "Directory" feature to store and share files but you won't be able to edit them. Users would have to download them, edit them, and the re-upload them.

However, if you don't care about the format, and the actual text information is more important then the Wiki feature is what you need. You could create categories for each user if you want to group them somehow but allow other users to edit them.


posts: 6

Ok thanks, I see what you mean.
But, the only way to display Word or Pdf documents is to download them? Is there any way to display a document without downloading it (like Google Books)?


Thank you
Carmelo

posts: 289 United States

I'd have to answer "maybe" for that. I suppose you can, with some configuration, get any file to display in your browser. Many PDF readers typically integrate with browsers so that it downloads the file automatically and displays it in your browser window.

The point is, that it is due to additional software and configuration of your individual computer/s, not a feature of Tiki. To the best of my knowledge you can't edit a Word Document/PDF/Other types of files directly in TikiWiki.

If you want to create a "page-by-page" effect like Google Books then you can still use Wiki pages, but you simply place them in a "Structure", which then allows users to navigate through a series of related Wiki pages. Naturally, you can incorporate images into your Wiki pages so that you can truly have a book-like feel.

Of course if you already have all the material in another form, then it could require a lot of manual work to copy all the material from the original form to Wiki pages (at least a lot of copying and pasting).

Hope this helps.


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