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Wiki – links to other documents/media uploads

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  • November 22, 2012 at 3:28 pm #1013
    Anonymous
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    Hi,

    I have few questions concerning the wiki:

    Is there a possibility to create a link in the wiki to an uploaded file?
    Is it possible to upload files through the wiki editor (or otherwise)?
    How can one create links to other documents or wiki pages? The only way I could think of was to create a file/wiki page, find its url and use this url and insert it as a link in another page.

    Thanks,

    Eyal

    November 22, 2012 at 9:11 pm #1017
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Internal Linking
    Ok – RB Internal Links plugin can help linking to other BuddyPress docs (=wiki pages). click the plugin’s icon and find the document you want to link to under “custom types > BuddyPress Docs”. It works, though the plugin leaves code in the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor (which are not seen in the final text).

    Still can’t find a way to upload files to the wiki, though.

    November 23, 2012 at 2:24 pm #1020
    Scott Voth
    Keymaster

    Hi – No, there is currently no way to upload files to the wiki.  You can certainly cut and paste content, but I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for.  In terms of links – when you create a wiki, it can be tagged and you can create a tag cloud on your wiki main page to aggregate content.  You can also create hierarchies via parent/child relationship, and links will be created at the bottom of your wiki pages – to the parent or to the pages children.  And the plugin has several useful widgets – “(Wiki) Recently Active”, “(Wiki) Most Active” and “(Wiki) Tag Cloud” that you can use to organize your pages.  And of course each wiki page has a permalink, and you can link to other pages.  And you could put links to uploaded files also – as well as embed video/images.  Most of the features found in a regular WP post are available in a wiki page, I think.

    I don’t know if this helps answering your question…

    December 1, 2012 at 9:19 pm #1160
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thank you so much for your detailed reply.

    I see that there is more interest in file uploads, which is my main concern here. We are currently using a wiki for documentation in a scientific environment and file attachment is very important for us. As long as we cannot attach/upload files to the wiki, BuddyPress and our wiki (currently Dokuwiki) will have to lead separate life 🙁

    Best regards,

    Eyal

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