Note: Normally you cannot display wiki codes because they will be interpreted. A special wiki code has been developed to 'display nothing' - use ._. to break up wiki codes if you wish to display them, as we do here.

 

Creating new pages:
 

The basic idea is that you create a page when you try to reach a page that doesn't exist yet. When you do this, you obtain a blank page in « edit » mode. Then you type the content and submit the new page ... you're done.

Method 1

Step 1: Edit an existing page and add a link to your new page

Pages are identified with their "page name". This can be any text, but you should try to keep page names as short and relevant as possible. You will set later a "page title" that can be more explicit.

Simply type: [[my page name]] , or [[my page name | hyperlink text]] .

Alternatively, if your new page name is a CamelCase word (that is two or more concatenated words starting with an uppercase letter: LikeThisOne), simply type it without square brackets.

Step 2: Preview or save the current page, and click on the link you've just added.

You will be taken to the new page in edit mode, now just type your content and save it.

Note: when page is viewed, any links to other wiki pages that don't exist have beside them to make it easy to understand the corresponding content doesn't exist yet and has to be created.

Method 2

 If the Add a New Page block has been activated for you, you can simply type the name of the new page in the block and click on the Submit button. You'll be taken to the new blank page to start creating your content.

Organizing pages

One of the most irritating tasks in wikis is to maintain information about the page hierarchy (if applicable), and repeat it on each page you write, so that readers don't get lost and quickly browse back to page parents.

SimplyWiki - The Module's solution is an optional « parent » field in the page edit form. In view mode, SimplyWiki - The Module displays a navigation bar linking to all parents, climbing the page hierarchy till no more parents can be found (parent field left empty). SimplyWiki - The Module automatically sets the « parent » field of newly created pages to a reasonable guess: the wiwi page that hosted the hyperlink (if applicable) leading to the current page creation.

Editing Content

SimplyWiki - The Module displays a wysiwyg editor whenever possible while editing pages. If the browser doesn't support it, the default editor is displayed. This manual won't detail how to use the editors, yet they're easy to take hands on. Let us simply remind basic rules that are good to apply :

• use tables to fully control page layout
• don't use too many font styles neither colors
• make simple sentences, better than neverending texts that are hard to read on screen

Table below details some special useful features :

Table below displays wiki codes that are interpreted by wiwi at display time, whenever they are found in a page content. Best practices are to use wiki markup only for wiki features, for HTML elements and styling, use the features of the WYSIWYG editor.