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Video on SharePoint 2007 Wiki, Blog, and RSS Functionality from Microsoft’s Channel 9
February 7th, 2007 | Posted in Wikis |
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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February 18th, 2007 at 4:58 am
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.
December 19th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
the wiki syntax is nice, but sometime I prefer the old HTML styles. Too much to remember it al
March 19th, 2008 at 5:59 am
thanx for the link of the movie.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
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.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:02 am
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.