[Wolfgang Hoeschele]

Hello,
Like Helene Finidori, I am working on launching the commonsabundance.net site. My questions may repeat part of what she asked; I hope that’s okay. My questions right now are focused on the wiki. Also, I asked these questions yesterday as a general post, and they seem to have been ignored, so I’m asking them again within this group.

1. I think Helene already asked this: how can you make the wiki generate a table of contents based on the headings that one has designated? This is essential to the successful functioning of the wiki, because it will have a lot of long pages around which one can most easily navigate if such a table of contents is there.
2. How does one best post pictures onto the wiki?
3. Is there some page somewhere which provides instructions for users how to add content, and which we could link from the site, so that people with questions like 2 above would get quick answers? I did not find the ? button very useful in this regard.

[Wolfgang Hoeschele]

Knock Knock! Is anybody there?????

I posted the question below a couple of days ago and nobody answered – while other conversations are continuing. Does one have to be part of an in-group in order to get an answer? Is anybody reading this? I would like to at least get an acknowledgment from somebody that they read my post, because otherwise I’m ready to quit Commons-in-a-Box and go elsewhere.

Thanks to anybody who does take the time to recognize I’m there.

Wolfgang

Note: By this time I’ve figured out how to put pictures on a wiki – but only if you have administrative access, nothing for ordinary members. And it doesn’t format the way it says it will – it only posts a picture on the left, whatever you happen to specify, and it will not put text next to a picture.
Hello,Like Helene Finidori, I am working on launching the commonsabundance.net site. My questions may repeat part of what she asked; I hope that’s okay. My questions right now are focused on the wiki. Also, I asked these questions yesterday as a general post, and they seem to have been ignored, so I’m asking them again within this group.
1. I think Helene already asked this: how can you make the wiki generate a table of contents based on the headings that one has designated? This is essential to the successful functioning of the wiki, because it will have a lot of long pages around which one can most easily navigate if such a table of contents is there.2. How does one best post pictures onto the wiki?3. Is there some page somewhere which provides instructions for users how to add content, and which we could link from the site, so that people with questions like 2 above would get quick answers? I did not find the ? button very useful in this regard.

[BJWang]

I am here and have been  following this topic. I, too, would like to see a table of content too, something similar to the one on CUNY Commons.

@Scottvoth, do you know if this is in the developer’s pipeline?

[Scott Voth]

Hi Wolfgang and BJWang –

Unfortunately there’s currently no table of contents functionality available with the plugin, but you can request feature enhancements at the plugin’s support page on GitHub – https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs-wiki/issues?state=open

Currently 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.

Hope this helps.

[Wolfgang Hoeschele]

Thanks for the reply!

The tools for navigating from page to page I understand, and I think those will serve our purposes well. It’s tools for navigating within a page that I am concerned about, because we will be having somewhat long and complex pages (and I think there are good reasons for keeping all that information on one page).

I talked with people at my university today who work with WordPress (though not Buddypress), and one suggested the following plugin for generating tables of contents:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/table-of-contents-plus/

This is supposed to work for pages created within a WordPress document. Would this also work for wiki pages in Buddypress? Or should I just go ahead and try it out and see whether it works? It would be the first time I’m installing a plugin, but I suppose there are instructions for that somewhere (won’t be doing this before tomorrow in any case because I prefer to do this from my work computer).

Best,

Wolfgang

[Scott Voth]

Hi Wolfgang – this looks like a cool plugin, but would probably require some hacks on the CBOX Wiki to get to work.  Maybe the CBOX Wiki developers have some ideas on how to create TOC’s, and can incorporate some of what this plugin does.  Certainly a great suggestion. Thanks!

[Wolfgang Hoeschele]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the advice. I tried it and indeed it didn’t do anything. I’ll get in touch with the developers, but in the meantime I got a suggestion to install the CKEditor plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ckeditor-for-wordpress/ – in order to have more word processing features. That works! It also includes anchors, so one can place anchors (in the line above a heading) and then create a table of contents manually, with links to those anchors. It’s not as elegant as what I was hoping for, but it’ll do until there’s something more elegant. This may also work for you, BJWang!

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