How to Add Pages

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How to Add Pages into the Structure

This software (MyTiki) is extremely powerful, but all the options means that it is not always user-friendly. It does work very well once we figure things out, however.

It is made to work with plain text, not fancy formatting. Once you get the hang of it, adding pages is very easy and downright addicting.

When you view pages, you see the structure above the page at the top of the page, and the structure below the page in the table of contents just below that. This makes it easy to navigate up and down through the structure.

When you add new pages, unless they are something like your personal user page, they need to be added into the overall structure. This allows them to be seen in the index.

To create a new page and add it into the structure, do this:

1. Browse to the page just above the page you want to insert. This page would be called the "parent", and the new page you want to add would be called the "child".

When you are viewing a page, you should see at the top (right above the links showing the pages above the current one,) a text box, a check box, and an "Add Page" button. (This only appears if you are registered.)

If you don't (and you are registered,) you need to change your Theme to tikineat (you may want to print this page for reference first):
a. Click on Preferences under MyTiki in the left column.
b. Click on General Preferences at the top.
c. Under theme, if it does not display tikineat.css, select it from the drop-down list.
d. Click on Change Preferences just under that.

Back to viewing the page, and you should see the Add Page things at the top.

2. To add a new page in the structure below the current page, put the page name in the text box, check the check box, and click on Add Page.

Very Important Note: Be sure the page name is unique, or you will link to an existing page somewhere else. Call it S Scale Wiring Standards, not Wiring Standards. In fact, if you are not absolutely certain the name is unique, call it something you ARE certain is unique, like "S Scale Wiring Standards 2008-02-23". Once it is created, you can rename it, and it won't let you rename it to an existing page name.

If by chance you add a page and see content in the box before you have done anything, it means you have cross-linked to an existing page. This may be what you wanted, but probably isn't. (If this happens, click on cancel edit, and the new page won't be incorrectly linked into the structure. If it is incorrectly linked, you'll need an administrator to fix it for you.)

3. When you click on Add Page, you should be in the edit box for the new page. Before you add the content or anything else, select "Default Wiki Page" from the "Apply Template". As soon as you do this, it will add the content that shows the pages below the current one for two levels, adds a separator line, and puts you in preview mode. Add your content below this, and be sure to save (or the new page won't be created.)

A note about the contents structure. This ties the wiki together, and allows the visitors on any given page to see the structure above where they are at the very top of the page, and the structure up to two levels below where they are at the top of the content section. If your page is the end of a structural line, and you are sure there won't ever be any sub-pages, then you can delete the {maketoc} line.

(See the page on How To Edit Pages for more information on how to format your content.)

Don't forget to save!

4. You should now be viewing the new page in the structure. Click on Rename at the bottom, and change the name to what you think it should be. You still want it to be clear enough that it won't conflict with other pages (e.g., "S Scale Modular Wiring", not "Wiring", but it will warn you if you are trying to rename it something which is not unique.

This should be working for all registered users. Let me know if you have trouble with it.

Brian Groover
Site Administrator