See FlexWikiFAQ.

Creating, deleting, restoring, and renaming wiki pages

• Q I don't see any examples on how someone would restore a page to a previous version. How would someone do this? -- DavidOrnstein
• A Select the previous version, select show, then the restore button is available in the right hand pane. See RestorePreviousVersion -- JamesBerry
• Q How to delete a page?
• A See DeleteATopic.
• Q Can a specific version of a wiki topic be included in another topic by using WikiInclude? I attempted the following:

 {{PlayPage(version)}}

• A I don't think there's any way to do that with the current software. One approach to fixing this, however, is to create a copy of the old version in a new page. Then you could include that new page using the {{ }} syntax. For example, FwSync0dot1 is an old version of FwSync that I created by hand, in case anyone is using version 0.1 of FwSync and needs the documentation. -- CraigAndera

Editing The Wiki

• Q How can I have mulit-level numbered list? Something like this: [2005-03-04]

        A. First level entry
        B. Another first level entry
                a. Second level entry, use different numbering style
                b. Another one
        C. Now continue numbering from the first level
           And allow new line in the item
        D. Last item

• A: Start the line with 2 tabs for level 2, 3 tabs for level 3, etc. If you want 3 or more levels, you will have to edit the wiki.css file and add an entry for "ol ol ol". You may want to edit it anyway in order to get the numbering styles you want. [2005-07-15]

• Q This is a more general version of some other questions. How can I alter what the Wiki display looks like? Examples might include split pages (vertical or horizontal), addition of buttons or text entry areas (or other GUI type things), hiding/displaying/altering side-bars (e.g. adding a split section to the "wiki editing" side bar to include any recent searches). [2004-07-21] phayes@maad.com
• Q I am having a similar issue. What file is the one that controls the left menu, body, and right menu widths and information? root/default.aspx seems like it's it - but when this file is changed nothing happens. Chad
• A: Do a search on this site for _NormalBorders. Don't edit the one on this site tho! Altering _NormalBorders changes the look of the border (in view mode, not edit mode) for all topics in the same namespace. Multiple namespaces means multiple borders to change. As far as editing buttons etc. it's not gonna happen without changing source code. Doesn't seem like something the casual user would want to do (and keep in mind that's who this is built for, it's a bridge between the programmer and the user). Editing the wiki sidebar in Edit mode is a source code change. -- JustinCollum, 8Sep04
• A: Be sure to read about StylesheetOverride, too, in order to control other aspects of the appearance of the site. CustomBorders is a starting point for the borders that JustinCollum mentions above. See also CustomizingBorders. -- TommyWilliams [05-Jan-2005]
• Q How to create Wiki site with menu items on the left or top of each page? For instance, this site has some menu items on the left site of the page.
• A See the answer above about CustomBorders and WikiTalk.
• Q What is the recommended way for displaying a list of namespaces in the federation on the default namespaces' homepage?
• A @@AllNamespacesWithDetails@@ -- OmarShahine
• Q2 How is the content of this table build up?
• A It goes through the internal structures of FlexWiki and lists all the WikiBases. It enumerates the Title, Description and Contact WikiPageProperties from the ContentBaseDefinition
• Q I'm having TopicTips related issues when using tables. Specifically the TopicTips are not scrolling with large tables. It appears that the x,y cordinates or staying with the original windows presentation and not the scrolled index. -- EricCotter
• A This bug was fixed. See ReleaseNotes1490.
• Q How can I include a topic from another Namespace in the Federation? I tried {{DifferentNamespace.TopicName}} but this didn't work. -- MichaelWaltuch
• A: You can include links to other namespaces by using the @ keyword at the top of the page: @Section01=MyWiki.Section01.HomePage. Then if you want to make a link to it do this: @@InterWiki("Section01", "Section01", "Section01")@@; it will show up as a WikiWord called Section01. -- JustinCollum, 8Sep04
• Q Is it possible to create a hyper link to another location on the same page (like you can do with HTML)? It seems limiting to have to create a new page for anything you want to cross reference. -- GeorgeJoy
• A Currently, there is no way to do this. -- TommyWilliams [05-Jan-2005]

Working With Images

• Q How do I wrap an image with a hyperlink? -- EricCotter
• A Use the syntax "<ImageUrl>":<LinkUrl> , for example "http://www.flexwiki.com/images/go.gif":http://www.flexwiki.com/images/go.gif renders like this -- JoeFrayne, StuartCelarier
• Q Is there a way to link to an image using a relative rather than absolute path?
• A YES!!! Using EasyMediaLibrary method. --- PaoloMasetti [2005-01-20]
• Q But but but... Is there a way to wrap an EasyMediaLibrary image link with a hyperlink?

Questions awaiting answers

• Q How do I wrap text around a graphic?
• A This is accomplished by wrapping the graphic in a 'div' using Presentations.ContainerStart("div", "leftfloatimg"). This will open a div with an id="leftfloatimg". Then put the img reference that you want in the topic, and finish the div with Presentations.ContainerEnd("div"). Then you need to create a stylesheet for your new div. It would have an entry like

 #leftfloatimg {
       float: left;
 }

You need to consult StylesheetOverride to determine the best way to include the stylesheet in your wiki. Now any text will flow against the right side of the image.

• Q Hi, hope this is the right place for the question. How can you add vertical whitespace to a page? Only way I've found is to add a table w/o borders or content, but it takes MANY rows for just a little whitespace. i.e.:

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I'm probably missing something simple. Thanks. -- WMascia

• A Looks like &nbsp; will do the trick. For example:

• A This is how I am doing it... Double click to see...

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I ignored this possibility since I've seen some quirky behavior when using it inline w/ text (the & will get encoded as &amp, but only if there is some text preceeding it in the same line. You can use the usual 'two double-quotes' to avoid the encoding, but it's a little unintuitive since you might think adding the quotes should cause the " " to be displayed, but really it causes the " " to be put in the html which is then rendered as a space. The behavior is opposite in a pre-formatted block - to solve that problem you can encode it yourself, i.e.:

here's with text preceeding text the line ---> &anbsp; (rendered as text)
  <-- here's with no prceeding text in the line (rendered as a space)

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 | 
 V  here's on all by itself on the next line (rendered as a space):
  

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&nbsp;

&nbsp; <-- it works inline with text too

• Q Is there any way to align the content of a table cell verticaly, like valign? -- CarlWistedt
• A nevermind, i just put vertical-align: top; in the css att td
• Q Is there any way to add straight html to a page? Is this intentionally prevented? Is there a discussion on this topic? -- JoeFrayne
• Q Can you disable the "double-click-to-edit" action? I'd rather just edit when you select the edit button. -- JamesBerry
• A Starting with build 1674, there is a web.config setting which allows double-click-to-edit to be disabled. Set the DoubleClickToEdit to False. -- CalvinHertel [2005-03-06]
• Q Is there a way to hide the "Formatting tips" on right side of each page? Or move it to the bottom of the page, those information normally become useless after you get used to Wiki, and it takes away too much screen "real-estate". For instance, with the JspWiki, each page just has a small edit link on the upper-right corner.
• Q Is there a way to put a timestamp that does not update each time the page is changed? We were trying to use @@Now@@ after comments to indicate the time an entry was added to the page but each one updates every time the page changes. Thank you.
• Sounds like what you want is something like @@TimeStamp@@ that the Wiki page processor would replace with the current date/time when saved. Maybe even something like @@TimeStamp("2004-07-08")@@ that would replace the date as string every time saved but leave the function. This sounds very useful, but it sounds like DavidOrnstein is the one to consider and offer a solution. -- MikeSchinkel [2004-07-08]
• Q When editing, it would be nice to be able to distinguish between regular edits and minor edits, so as not to clutter up the RecentChanges. -- BradWhite
• YES! MikeSchinkel [2004-07-22]
• Agreed - maybe anything with more than X characters changed is a major edit? -- JustinCollum [2004-8-22]
• I like the idea of auto-discerning whether it is a major or minor edit. Personally, I think that should be X consecutive characters. I would also add, if it includes a newline with characters before or after, then it is major. - BradWhite
• The question is, when does this happen. You still want a checkbox so the user can choose the appropriate setting. Being a web page, it would be a pain for it to monitor the editing in real time and update the checkbox so that it is already set before the user clicks save. But you could have the checkbox, and then do the appropriate hueristics after save, and if the results don't match, ask the user to verify that it is marked correctly. Most likely, they forgot to check/uncheck the box. - BradWhite
• Q The "formatting tips" section on the right side of an edit page indicates that properties can be set by starting a line with a wiki word and a colon. What are the valid wiki words? phayes@maad.com
• Q How do I edit the font color in twiki? Specifically the font color of the topic bar. I tried to edit it in the wiki.css file, but it didn't work. -- JasonSheputis [2004-10-04]
• QCan you add a more sophisticated editor to modify the page content. Like a WYSIWYG plug-in or so? How would one go about this? 10/4/04
• Q How do I display a menu of available topics in the current namespace, like the menu on the left side on this site: www.pinvoke.net ?
• Q Is there a way to move a page from one namespace to another (i.e. using a 'move' {to} keyword similar to 'delete')? If I just cut and paste and then delete from the old namespace, I'll lose the history [2004-11-04].
• Q Is there a way to enter a line break? (the equivalent of <br> )

• Q When I create a new page, is there a way I can use HTML in the text of the new page and have it rendered as HTML instead of being preformatted?
• Q There's no answer to creating pages in the Creating, deleting and restoring section of the page above... How is it done?
Q Is there a way to make a comment in the edit-page, but that will not show on the normal page. Something like: <!-- comment --> (xml-style) or // comment, / comment */ (c-style) -- JHWester [2005-04-27]
• A I think it should be like that - Silver
• Q Is there any way to force a blank line in the resulting page? I'm entering blank lines in the source, but they don't appear in the final page. - BradWhite
• Q The following layout is not appearing correctly in the resulting page. What am I doing wrong? - BradWhite
• A The leading tab (9 chars long) followed by the number 1 is causing the behavior, as this gets treated as an orphaned numbered list (tab + the number 1 but missing the dot). Use anything less than 8 leading spaces, and your lines will format correctly. -- TimHallbeck [2005-08-04]
• Q How can I write text, that is not displayed? Like comments in C# /// This is just a comment. - my question is the same as JHWester stated a few questions ago --MJakopin [2005-11-22]
• A My answer is the same as for the JHWester question - Silver

Heading

        2)line 2
        3)line 3
        4)line 4

...

       1)line 1. but with only 7 leading spaces
       2)etc.