This is a short, step-by-step tutorial to get you up to speed on %WIKITOOLNAME%.
- Preparation:
- Open up a new browser window. While you are working in one window, you can look at the step-by-step tutorial instructions in the other window.
- Navigation and search:
- %WIKITOOLNAME% is divided up into webs; each one represents one area of collaboration. The webs are accessible at the upper right corner of each web page.
- Each web has hyper-linked topics. A topic is one web page in your browser.
- The home page in each web is the [[WebHome]] topic.
- To browse a %WIKITOOLNAME% web, just click on any highlighted link. These links are called [[WikiWords]] and comprise two or more words with initial capitals, run together.
- Follow the [[WikiWord]] link and learn what it is.
- If you know the name of a topic, you can jump directly to it by typing its name into the **Go** field on the top of the page. Type `WebSearch` to jump to the search page. **_Hint:_** Do not confuse the **Go** field with search.
- You can search each %WIKITOOLNAME% web. Enter a search string in the [[WebHome]] topic or the [[WebSearch]] topic accessible from the `Search` link on each topic. %WIKITOOLNAME% searches for an exact match; optionally, you can also use [[RegularExpressions]].
- Create your account:
- To edit topics, you need to have a %WIKITOOLNAME% account.
- Go to the [[TWikiRegistration]] page to create your %WIKITOOLNAME% account.
- %WIKITOOLNAME% Users and offices:
- Go to the [[TWikiUsers]] topic in the %WIKITOOLNAME%.Main web; it has a list of all users of %WIKITOOLNAME%. Your [[WikiName]] will be in this list after you register.
- Go to the [[OfficeLocations]] topic in the %WIKITOOLNAME%.Main web; it has a list of corporate offices already entered into %WIKITOOLNAME%.
- Operations on topics:
- Go to the [[WebHome]] topic to learn what we can do with a topic.
- The bottom of the page has some links:
- `Edit` : Allows you to edit the topic (discussed later)
- `Ref-By` : Find out what other topics link to this topic (reverse link)
- `Attach` : Attach files to a topic (discussed later)
- `Diffs` : Topics are under revision control. Diffs shows you the complete change history of the topic, e.g. who changed what and when.
- `r1.3 | > | r1.2 | > | r1.1` : Allows you to see a previous topic revision or the difference between revisions.
- Editing a topic and creating hyperlinked pages:
- Go to the [[Test|Test/WebHome]] topic of the %WIKITOOLNAME%.Test web. This web is the sandbox where you can make changes at will.
- Press the `Edit` link. You are now in edit mode and you can see the source of the page. (Go to a different topic like [[TestTopic3]] in case you see a "Topic is locked by an other user" warning.)
- Look at the text in edit mode and compare it with the rendered page (move back and forth in your browser.)
- Notice how [[WikiWords]] are linked automatically; there is no link if you look at the text in edit mode.
- Now let's create a new topic, your own sandbox topic:
- In edit mode, enter a new text with a [[WikiWord]], i.e.
`This is PaulsSandBox topic.`
- Preview and save the topic.
- You can see a linked question mark after the topic name. This means that the topic does not exist yet.
- Click on the question mark. Now you are in edit mode of the new topic.
- Type some text, basically like you write an email.
- A signature with your name is already entered by default. **_Note:_** Please note the `Main.` in front of your name. This means that you have a link from the current web to your personal topic located in the Main web.
- Preview and save the topic.
- Learn about text formatting:
- You write text in [[WikiSyntax]], a very simple markup language. Follow the [[WikiSyntax]] link and learn how to write text.
- Go back to your sandbox topic end edit it.
- Enter some text in [[WikiSyntax]]: **bold** text, _italic_ text, **_bold italic_** text, a bullet list, tables, paragraphs, etc. **_Hint:_** If you need to look up the [[WikiSyntax]], click on the [[TextFormattingRules]] link located below the edit field.
- Preview and save the topic.
- Attaching files to a topic:
- You can attach any file to a topic, not unlike attachments to an email.
- Go back to your sandbox topic and click on the `Attach` link at the bottom.
- Browse for any file you would like to attach; enter an optional comment.
- Upload and attach the file.
- Do this again with a JPG or GIF image file.
- Checkmark the box "Create a link to the attached file at the end of the topic."
- Upload and attach the image file.
- The image will show up at the bottom of the topic. To move the image, you can edit the topic and move the last line (starting with `