On Nov 27, 2007 4:00 AM, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 2:01:41 AM, Tom Hayden wrote: > > > In my defense, I will observe that it is a little counter intuitive that > > the "footer" is no different than any other page and needs to be created > > in a similar manner, and can, in fact, be displayed as though it was a > > "real" page. > > I am glad that you got to the bottom of this! > > Usually there is no need to edit any page file in wiki.d directory, > nor to create page files manually. > > And there are many more pages like GroupFooter which are wiki pages > but act as configuration pages, for instance lots of pages in group > Site. GroupFooter and GroupHeader are rather more straight forward as > any content added to them will appear as actual content in the page, > they are just two sections of the page (indicated by the (:include..:) > markup which defines their format). > > Skins can have also a number of pages which contain specific content > applied to a section of the overall page, like Site.SideBar holding > the (left) menu bar content. > > So if we talk about pages here it means usually wiki pages, not page > files in a page store directory (like wiki.d and wikilib.d), and > creating pages is done from within the wiki, within the browser. > Do you think this needs to be spelled out more clearly? > > > ~Hans > > I do. This is something that confused me when I first started using the wiki. I didn't notice the Site Administration link that explains stuff pretty well when I first was getting started, so iit probably would have been useful to have an overview of how the Site pages are used and a link to the Site Administration page on the Installation or InitialSetupTasks page.
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