I would like to propose these pages are written by beginners for beginners in the way that questions would be asked.

No offense but sometimes those who write technical documentation know what they mean but don't explain it in plain english!

The 'solutions' here may not be perfect but will get the result. They may of course change as the beginners who contribute find a 'better' way.

If any developers drop by perhaps you may like to offer alternatives but remember - plain english is spoken here (:smile:)

Please note that there is a tab in your installation of BW, behind the 'Edit Wiki Page Body' that is called Wiki Help where you can find some syntax. (I didn't even know to look for this (:rolleyes:) )

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How do I create a link to another wiki page?

On the page that you want to link from, put 2 open parentheses around each end of the word.
(I haven't worked out how to 'escape the code' and show this without the wiki wanting to link the example too - see: )
yourword

I'll try by spreading the example out:
( (yourword) )
but you will have to take the spaces out from the parentheses.

When you save this page, this word will appear to want to create a link. Simply click on the word and it will take you to creating a new page.

How do I create a link to a board?

Create the board first.

Go to Boards tab and scroll down to Create new Board. Give it a title and a description as you wish and Save the page.

Then go back to the Boards tab and choose the Boards Home option.
This lists your boards. Hover your mouse over the name of the board you want to link to and note the number of the board down the bottom of your browser.

Then on the page that you want to link from, use square bracket to enclose the path to find the board.

Again, because this is a wikipage itself, it will want to make a link too!

So you see this:
boardname

The path that is inside the square brackets looks like this:
/sitename/boards/index.phph?b=#|boardname

'sitename' will be the directory that your bitweaver was put into
'#' is the specific number of the board that you want to link directly to
'boardname' is the name that you want to appear on the page that you want to link from

How do I create a table of contents for a wiki page?

First you need to make sure that you use the exclamation marks at the beginning of any line that you want to be made into a heading.

One '! for a big heading
Two '!' for a medium heading
Three '!' for a small heading

Then you click on the icon at the top of your wiki page for "Page Table of Contents" when you are where the table of contents is to go.

It automatically picks up the headings.

For further ways you can customise your table of contents refer to the 'Wiki Help' tab.

The headings on this page for what it is worth are using '!!!', bold and colour.

How do I get Wiki pages to link when I am using a foreign language or special characters?

This is still under discussion in the forums.

One person got the Wikilinks to work in the German language by:

Going to the Admin tab, scrolling down to Wiki, across to Wiki settings, where you see several tabbed pages. Go to the Wiki settings tab. Find the Wiki Link Format and choose Complete

And another person, also for a Wiki in German, chose: Latin

So go figure!

Some words in the Wiki think they are links

This is because BW automagically (ie 'hey presto') thinks words that have an underscore or a hyphen in them, or that are written in caps, are going to be a new page.

An underscore is a common way for titles to be written instead of running all the words together.

So if this is annoying you, you will need to go to the Admin drop-down menu, choose Wiki and slide across to Wiki settings.

You will see a series of tabbed pages. Click on the In and Output tab

On this page is the checkbox for Wikiwords. (I understand these were called Hotwords in previous versions perhaps). If you uncheck it, then you won't have the 'problem' with words wanting to be links.

Remember to go to the bottom of the page and choose Change Preferences

What is a Wiki Book?

It is a collection of content from your Bitweaver site - not limited to your Wiki pages, presented like a book. Think of it as a publishing tool for a thesis or report.

One of the Wiki pages that is already in your installation of Bitweaver is "How to create a Wiki Book" or you could just as simply click on "Wiki" and "Create a Wiki book" Its fairly straight forward. The page or content needs to be there first though.

If when you go to "Add content" on the Wiki book page you only see Wiki pages and you know that you have an image or a board to add - use the drop down menu at the top of the page to find the other content types.