NOTE

When Creating/Editing a page, please enter your name into the Author box. Keep this consistent and please always enter it. When you view the history for a page (or Recent Changes) your name becomes a link to your profile. CKoerner

Image Uploading

Attaching an image is simple.

First click on edit to enter the 'edit mode' of pmwiki
Then click the Attach button below the sidebar under Admin Actions
Navigate to the file you would like to upload (currently a 1mb limit is in effect)
You can change what the name of the file will be on the server
Click Upload

To Display an uploaded image

Attach:image.jpg will display an uploaded image.
i.e. Attach:cdr.jpg will display the uploaded image cdr.jpg like so:

a more comprehensive overview of images in pmwiki can be found here: http://doc.linucie.net/PmWiki/Images

Link creation

The most challenging aspect of pmwiki is the handling of links in and out of the wiki.

If documentation should be seen only by internal audiences ensure you follow the guide under Internal Documentation.

Internal Links

To link to another page in the wiki:

Create two open brackets

[[

just place the GroupName followed by a . or a / and then the PageName

  GroupName.PageName -or- GroupName/PageName

Follow that with two close brackets

]]

Looks like: [[GroupName.PageName]]

Appears as: GroupName.Pagename

The small ^? designates a link as being correctly created, but no page exists at the specified location.

You cannot create a page wth a . (or a slash "\") in it's name. (ie OS X 10.4) This will cause a new group to be created, named by everything to the left of the .
A page would then be created with everything to the right.
For example: If you wanted to create a page about OS X 10.4 Migration under the ArtsAndSciencesFAQ group you would create a link (in brackets) with the following information:

    [[ArtsAndSciencesFAQ/OSX 104 Migration | OS X 10.4 Migration]]

This link would point to the group "ArtsAndSciencesFAQ" and the page OSX104Migration, but the link would appear as "OS X 10.4 Migration"
add a (`) in front of words like RealPlayer to stop PmWiki from creating links

External Links

To link to an external site, simply inclued the "http://" as part of the url and place it inside double brackets

For example:

A link to the SLU homepage would be typed as [[http://www.slu.edu]]

And would show up as http://www.slu.edu

You can also change the text of a link by using | as the example below:

Type: [[http://www.slu.edu | Saint Louis University]]

Shows up as: Saint Louis University

Interntal Documentation

All documentation created for internal use must be created under the ITSInternalDocs group. This group is 'read' password protected.

For example: If you wanted to create a page for external audiences about the Zen Migration you could place it in the ArtsAndSciencesFAQ group with a link like below (in brackets of course)

   ArtsAndSciencesFAQ/Zen Migration

For internal use, you would want to create a page under the ITSInternalDocs group. Documents here would be kept seperate from external documents.

   ITSInternalDocs/Zen Migration

Note
These pages are different in their content, treat them as independent documents when adding informatin

Attribute Editing

Editing the Attributes of a group or page allows to set passwords for read, edit, attribute, upload access.

To set the attributes for a group add ?action=attr to the end of the url:

...ArtsAndSciencesFAQ/index.php?n=Main.ArtsAndSciencesFAQ?action=attr

To set the attributes for a page add ?action=attr to the end of the url:

...ArtsAndSciencesFAQ/index.php?n=ArtsAndSciencesFAQ.GoodComputingPractices?action=attr

All groups stem from the Main.groupname