Flex Wiki FAQ

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Summary

This page provides answers to Frequently-Asked Questions about FlexWiki

General

• Q How do I activate the RSS-Feed for the "Recent Changes"? -- G.Ziegler [2006-12-19] -test
• A In your RSS viewer subscribe to http://www.flexwiki.com/rss.aspx?namespace=FlexWiki. You can find this link for other flexwikis in the Subscriptions menu. -- SzaMa - 2006.12.23.

• Q Is it possible to have the next scenario?. Some registered users have privileges to edit all the documents (their own and other's documents), and all anonymous users just can read the documents. -- LMurillo (lmurillo@microsip.com)[2006-10-02]
• A Yes, by setting the NTFS rights of the files, and setting the security in web.config see AccessControl -- SzaMa - 2006.10.23

• Q Users of our wiki installation often have access problems to the wiki server. The wiki server was never shut down and As the admin, I can access the wiki, make changes, save the changes etc. But SOMETIMES they have all sorts of problems. Can awnybody help me in fixing this problem? Is there an error log whihc I can view to see what kind of problems users have encountered? Your help will be appreciated. Thanks

• Q Any plans to port the code base for use with the 2.0 CLR? If not, why? PatrickAltman [2006-03-08]

• Q I am trying to document design specifications using a Wiki to better accomodate our team atmosphere and allow contributions from the whole team but am having difficulty finding a way to get our code snippets displayed as desired. The ideal scenario would allow us to use a custom property with the code embedded but the code formatting is not recognized inside the property (or a table for that matter). Furthermore, we need to be able to add color to our code samples. Is there a way to accomplish what we are after? Best example of the appearance we are after would be any of the Microsoft .NET documentation -- J.Miller [2006-02-13]

• Q I'm working to help set up a flexwiki to help support electronic theses and dissertations. Should I point readers to the User Manual here or should I copy the User Manual to the other site? I hate repetition but I also fear creating confusion because the site (http://flexwiki.etdguide.org/default.aspx) looks like this one... I'm not clear on the ethics of this given the wiki way and the MSFT Terms of Use linke and so on JoeMoxley.
• A FlexWikiEditor is deprecated. Instead, try FlexWikiPad and FwSync. -- CraigAndera [2004-08-02]

• Q In the new UI how can I get the diff between the selected and previous versions?
• A There's a "Show Changes" button, first thing in the left sidebar. This does the same as the "highlight changes" checkbox in the old version.

• Q I noticed that any link to BugReports brings up a menu that allows you to choose between two topics:
• Q1 Why does this happen?
• Q2 Is there any way to explicitly use that menu feature for other things? I want to make a "Menu Border" at the top of my wiki. -- JoeFrayne

• Q How do I create image links? -- ScottW
• A Like this: -- JoeFrayne
• A Better way: -- Ben Bonavia

• Q How do I upload the image to images directory?
• A You'll have to take care of that yourself (ftp, dot net app, etc) -- Jon L

• Q What about file attachments?
• A Look at the above answer after asking yourself the question: "Are images files?"

• Q How do I create links to anchors within the same page? -- PradeepKumarcxczxc
• A This is now supported (as of Build 1.8.0.1661). See FormattingRules#Anchors

• Q Can I continue a line to the next line without FlexWiki inserting a new paragraph? -- Ken [2004-10-26]
• A The only way to insert a linebreak and have it ignored is to write a WikiTalk expression, but then you have to add a lot more stuff: each line has to be quoted, separated by commas, and you need the WikiTalk delimiters at the beginning and end of the phrase. Effectively, the answer to your question is that you can't.

• I've used the WikiTalk hack with this bit of text. Open this page for editing to see the source and see how I formatted it. -- TommyWilliams [05-Jan-2005]

• Q Is this really an FAQ? ...or is it a place to ask questions? -- HarryWood [18-Apr-2005]
• A That depends on whether your definition of FAQ is frequently ASKED questions, or frequently ANSWERED questions

• Q Tell me if I understand this right. FlexWiki does not require a database to work? It only requires IIS 5+/6 and asp.net. If this is true then I will surley be looking into using it when I get around to redesigning my web site. -- Created by: X [27-June-2005]
• A FlexWiki does not require a database to work. Without a database, revisions are stored in a series of files within the web site's directory.

• Q I'm trying to indent a paragraph and I don't see how it's done based on the User's Guide information. Is this possible? -- Kevin [17-Aug-2005]

• Q How do I include a field name that has the capitalization format that Wiki interprets as a Hyperlink without Wiki making it a hyperlink? -- Jennie K. [16-Nov-2005]

• Q I need to hyperlink to a local file. The file path has spaces. When I do a link e.g. file://c:\my directory\file.txt it won't create the whole text as a link. How can I resolve this? -- Martin C [24-Nov-2005]
• A Frist, you can create a virtual directory in your IIS, and let directory to you want directory. Then, you must make the space to %20. So, it will be like follow: -- DanceTime[25-11-2005]

http://YourSiteName/my%20directory/file.txt

• Another Q But now, i have another trouble. If i have a url like follow, the "_" will make the char to Italic. Who can tell me how to do? Thanks! -- DanceTime[25-11-2005]

http://MySiteName/my%20directory/file_test_error.txt

* More Q That works okay for websites. Is it possible to link to a file on the intranet such as file:////MyServer\FolderName with spaces\FileName with Spaces.doc ?

Page layout and borders

Q1: How do I change the way the layout looks, for example I want the links on the left to be on the right. I also want the search button to be on the top right. Is there a simple way to customize the whole layout.? -- DanyM

Q2: How do I change the left menu? After the site was installed, I FTPed all of the code down, did a search for names in the left menu (so I could locate where the code was) and found nothing. Is that in something that is compiled? -- ChadMa

Q3: How do I change the right menu in Edit mode? -- LiamOGorman

A: See CustomBorders for information about how to modify the borders on FlexWiki pages.

Anonymous

I did this already but it does not say how do it when the page is in Edit mode. Or at least it was not obvious to me if it did. -- LiamOGorman

Q4: I'm new to wikis but would like to try FlexWiki. Is it possible to insert a user control on a wiki page?

Q5: Hi, I'm getting Sharepoint errors on both the left and right borders. The error message is:

Method 'IEnqueueEventJob' on type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPListQueueEventsClass' from assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Library, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' is overriding a method that has been overridden.

Has anyone seen this error before? Thanks -- John Gamble

A: SHP is adding some stuff to default behaviour of IIS, if you want to install wiki directory under Sharepoint web site do following:

• exclude your virtual directory from SHP managed directories (in site menagement)
• add to your flexwiki web.config

    <trust level="Full" originUrl="" />
    <httpModules>
      <clear />
      copy all <add ... /> tags from C:\windows\microsoft.net\v2..\config\web.config
    </httpModules>

-- Jan Stuchlik

Q: Is there a way to include Topic navigation in the top border? i.e if on a page that is the 3rd level down it shows: HOME 2nd with hyper links to the above levels? ChrisHorne 2nd June06

Q: Is there a way to load an Background Image in top border? Backgroundimage meant as bg-image in a frame... Juergen

Security

• Q Is there any way to restrict the Wiki to be only viewable and editable by Certain users? -- [24-Feb-2006]

• Q Is there any way to restrict the Wiki to be only viewable and editable by a particular security group(s)? -- [07-March-2006]

General Page Error - Please Help

Dear All,

I'm new to the wiki setup and have been getting the following problem:

When I press the save button I get the following Web Page displayed

HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found

The URL displayed is:

http://localhost/educationWiki/default.aspx/EducationWiki.HomePage

Any help would be much appreciated

Thank you in advance.

Hitesh Ladva

A: I believe this happens when the first machine you use FlexWiki from is the machine on which it is installed (and you then go to a different machine and try to use flexwiki from there). To resolve it, I copied the installation files back in to the server, and then opened the wiki from the other machine (my desktop machine). The problem was resolved.

Bill Price

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I encountered this same problem. Turns out UrlScan was the problem. If you have UrlScan installed (typically installed as part of running the IisLockdownTool), you will want to edit C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\urlscan\urlscan.ini and set AllowDotInPath=1

This sounds like it may be related to a known bug, too. You can find it here:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1039466&group_id=113273&atid=665396.

- Ray Dixon

One more thing to check, if ASP.NET isn't registered right with IIS then you'll see this. Try re-running:

 aspnet_regiis -i 

to reinstall the asp.net bits. -- PaulPetterson

Q: Can I configure flexwiki to use a ? between default.aspx and the namespace instead of "/"? -- PaulPetterson

Q: How to create siteIndex?-- I dont know

Q: HELP! I need to know how to move an existing wiki site to a new server. Anyone know how to do this?!!!

A: Install FlexWiki on the new server and copy across your WikiBaseFolder.

Plug-ins

Q: I'm writing a TOC plug-in and I wish to make use of namespace.Topics and TopicsWithProperty how can I do this? HalFrancis 18 Apr 2006

Searching

Q: Is it for particular user possible, who have limited rights to search over different namespaces (All)? thnx

Organizing

Q: This is going great and our wiki is growing. I am splitting an existing namespace into three. I see a lot of useful pages about creating new namespaces, but nothing about how to move pages from one NS to another. BradWhite [12-01-06]

Alternately, how do I change the namespace of a topic? BradWhite

Q: How do you create a new page? Mukesh

Its Simple, just click on the Page Title and it will take you to a new page .