Create and edit wiki content

You can create new pages for your wiki as follows:

•      To do this, use the  Open as Folder context menu to open the wiki as a folder

•      Select  Page in header of the wiki. The "Empty" page from the "Page Templates" template folder is taken as the template if you created this template folder when you created the wiki. You can also create a template folder afterwards and create an HTML page with the name "Empty" there, which is to serve as a template for new pages of your Wiki. Of course, you can design this page according to your wishes. If no "Empty" page is found in any of the wiki's template folders, the system template is taken as the template, an empty page with the name of the page as the title.

•      Specify name and optionally tags and description of the new page.

•      Afterwards you may edit the page with BSCW's built-in HTML editor.

You can also derive new pages from existing pages by copying them and then editing them. In doing so, the original style of the page is preserved. These operations are combined into one action.

•      Select  Copy in the context menu of a wiki HTML or text document in the normal folder view.

•      In the 'Edit Copy' form you can specify a name for the copy and an optional description.

•      Click [OK] to create the copy and start the editor with which the copy can be edited.

If the wiki functionality is enabled, the Edit Copy action is available for all HTML and text documents on your BSCW server.

You can edit existing pages of your wiki as follows.

•      Select  Edit in the context menu of the page in the normal folder view or

•      click the icon  the page.

For editing new or already existing pages, the HTML editor integrated in BSCW is used. This editor displays an additional toolbar on wiki pages. This toolbar offers five buttons that facilitate the editing of wiki pages:

•      Insert BSCW element - offers frequently used BSCW elements. Selecting one of the offered elements inserts the corresponding [element ...] code at the cursor position into the source code of the document. To keep the menu short, not all available BSCW elements are listed there. For a complete list see the section after next.

•      Reference to existing object - offers the names of other objects in the current wiki. If you select and confirm one of the names, a reference to the corresponding object will be inserted at the cursor position in the source text of the current document. The active layout page is not displayed in this menu.

•      Existing Image - offers existing images in this folder for selection to help you insert existing images. Images from the 'Resources' folder also appear on this list.

•      Insert folder action - offers selected actions on the current wiki. Selecting one of the action names inserts the corresponding [element ...] code at the cursor position in the document source. For a complete list of possible actions see the section after next under folderactions.

•      Insert document action - offers selected actions on the edited document. Selecting one of the action names inserts the corresponding [element ...] code at the cursor position in the document source. For a complete list of possible actions see the section after next under document actions.

Click [Preview] in the integrated HTML editor to preview the current page in the web view in a separate browser window.

You can print the pages of a wiki by selecting Printthe context menu of the page in the normal folder view or by clicking the icon in the web view. This uses the active print template of the wiki.

Convert document references to BSCW notation

The Modify menu of a wiki also offers an action that lets you change the references to other BSCW documents in the pages of your wiki from normal HTML notation to BSCW notation.

•      To do this, select Changelinks between documents .

In contrast to ordinary HTML links, BSCW links are independent of the location of the target document. This allows you to set references and subsequently move the referenced documents in your workspaces without fear of broken references.