Video on SharePoint 2007 Wiki, Blog, and RSS Functionality from Microsoft’s Channel 9
February 7th, 2007 | Posted in blog 9 Comments »
If you’re interested in learning more about the wiki, blog, and RSS functionality of SharePoint 2007, watch this movie from Microsoft’s Channel 9.
To create a new page on the microsoft wiki, you just surround a name in double brackets, like this [[Getting Started]]. When you surround a word in double brackets, it becomes blue and underlined (i.e., a link). When you click the link, a new page is created. When the new page is created, the underlinine disappears and it just remains blue. It is extremely easy to create new pages in the wiki, and I think that’s the strength of SharePoint 2007′s wiki functionality.
For example, in the following screenshot, the link “Beginning a Mysite” is a page that is already created, but the two beneath it are like pages in waiting. When you click them, a new page gets created at that moment.
To add more pages, you just throw some double brackets [[around some words]] and voila, you have links with pages awaiting.
I’m assuming that you lay out a wiki table of contents by using the indent and outdent buttons on the wiki wysiwyg’s toolbar, but I’m not entirely sure. It’d be nice to integrate a collapse and expand javascript feature, like webhelp often has. I also haven’t found out how to edit the style sheet, but I know it’s got to be there somewhere. My exploration continues …
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Wiki systems have been around for several years now, so I wish Channel9 would provide a little more that their Wiki’s syntax. A case study would be nice.
the wiki syntax is nice, but sometime I prefer the old HTML styles. Too much to remember it al
thanx for the link of the movie.
Our voluteers run a website with free content for all visitors. Wikisoftware provides the basic (software)structure and it works fine for the whole community of writers and readers.
It’s strange.. I’ve looked through about 30 pages containing “getting started” and general tips and guides for Sharepoint 2007 wiki, yet nowhere (not even in official documentation) can I find any reference to the link-naming feature of Sharepoint wiki.
If you make a link like [[new page]] it will appear as “new page” on the site.
Here’s the (apparently) secret naming option:
Of you make a link like [[new page|Create a new page]] it will appear as “Create a new page”, yet it will link just as if you only wrote [[new page]] – hence whatever is before the pipe | symbol is the link, and anything after is the link “name”.
Notice though, the title of the new page in this case will be “new page” – NOT “Create a new page” as you might (rightfully) have expected.
i need help on wiki library management and workflow working and adding a web part business data web part
Please help
Thanks
Zahoor Ikram
Email:zahoorikram@gmail.com
Great ! I will add this to my bookmarks. TY
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