Create a Wiki hierarchy

Unlike the most well-known wiki platform, Wikipedia, in the business context, it is most useful for a wiki to use a hierarchical structure. That makes it easy to show the relationship between various pages.

On the left panel of every wiki page (unless the site administrator has chosen to disable this feature for a site) there is a tree view of the wiki hierarchy. By default, only the Home wiki page, every top-level page below the Home page, and the full path to the currently viewed page will be displayed in the left navigation. The currently viewed page is underlined. For simple browsing of the hierarchy, use the>button next to each parent page to list the child pages beneath it.

Click on any wiki page and it will be displayed on the right side of the screen.

To create a new top-level page, click

Add top-level page

:

This displays the new page screen:

Enter the details of the new top-level page and select

Save

.

Each wiki page can serve as a content container and as the parent for other wiki pages - each wiki page acts as both a folder and a file.

If a user has sufficient privileges, they can add a new child page to an existing wiki page by clicking

More Actions

>

Add child page

:

The new wiki form opens:

Enter the details and select

Save

. The new child page is displayed under the parent page:

When the Wiki module is enabled, a Home page is created titled 'Welcome to the wiki'. This serves as the top parent page of the wiki. While this page (and its title) can be edited, it can neither be deleted nor moved to another place in the wiki hierarchy.

The author of the wiki Home page will be the site administrator who enabled the Wiki module. The content of every home page is the same by default, but the content can (and should) be edited.

By default, wiki pages are sorted in chronological order by creation date. However, the sort order can be based on alphabetical order instead, or every page can be manually ordered. To do this, select

Sort wiki

:

The

Sort

screen opens:

Select which sorting option you want to use and select

Save

.

If you select

Manual

, the tree will be displayed. Drag and drop the wikis in the order you want and select

Save

:

You can now add entries to your favourites and access them through the

Favourites

section:

Select

Favourites

to view all of your favourites. Here you can also unfavourite items.

You can download files that are attached to a wiki via the

Download

button located at the bottom of an attachment:

Select

Download

to download the file.

You can also download all files attached to a wiki via the

Download all

button:

Select

Download all

to download all of the attachments to your computer.