# Presentation: 385703

## TWiki Management  and Usage 

*Quick Comprehensive TWiki Tutorial.*

- By: Ogy Sabev

## What is a TWiki 

- Wiki: a web application that allows users to add content, as on a forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content.
- Twiki: a structured wiki, an enterprise collaboration platform.
- Used to run a:
-  document management system
-  knowledge database,
-  project development space
-  or any other groupware tool

- Editing a TWiki

- The edit screen, similar to editing HTML.

## TWiki Basics

- The Sidebar:
- All Twikis have a Sidebar.
- New Webs, or topics are automatically added to the Sidebar.
- The Sidebar may also be manually edited.
- TWiki word:
- The corner stone of TWiki.
- Two words capitalized, and stuck together. (Ex: TwikiBasics)
- Web:
- A sort of self contained sub-site.
- Can be populated with content independent of other pages.
- Can have its own group of allowed users, invisible to others.
- Topic:
- Titled by a TWikiWord, it is simply a page within a web.
- The contents in the red box, are all the topics of the Main Web.

## Registering 

- To Register:
- Select Register from ether the Twiki, or Main Web
- Fill out Form
- Click Submit
- Registration is instant
- A page with your WikiName is created in the Main web, under Users.

## Creating A New Page 

- New Page (Topic):
- Click Edit on any page
- Type in a new wiki word of your choice.
- Save the changes.
- The word appears highlighted, with a ? At the end.
- Click the ?
- Add desired Content.
- Save newly created topic.
- Existing topics automatically appear as links.
- Newly crated topics are located in the web they were created in.

## Creating A New Web

- In The Twiki Web Find the ManagingWebs topic.
- Fill out the form on that page, and click create new web.
- Many of TWiki’s settings are found in the TWiki, or Main Webs.
- Many settings must be changed by editing the very page the instructions are on.

## Notification  

- The Changes Topic of the Main Web shows all resent changes in that twiki web.
- The WebNotify topic allows users to be informed via email of recent changes.

## Attaching Files 

- Simply Click Attach at the top of any page.
- Browse for the desired file, and select Upload File.
- The new attachment appears at the bottom of the page.

- To Delete an Attachment:
- Select Manage
- Move Attachment
- Select Trash as the web, TrashAttachment as the Topic

## Groups

- Select Groups Under the Main Web.
- Add a new group by filing out the form.
- Registered users can be added to existing  groups by:
- Selecting a group
- Clicking edit
-  Typing Main. User’s WikiNames in a the row, separated by commas.

## Access Control

- Go to the Web Preferences topic in any desired web.
- In the access control variables type %MAINWEB%. Name of desired user(s), group(s) whom you wish to have access to either the entire web, or any particular topic.
- These variables can be manually added to any page.
- Placing a <!--  -- > around the code  hides it from regular view.

## Site Preferences

- The TWikiPreferences topic located in the TWiki web
- Site level control of many aspects including: user, file attachment, search, proxy, http settings...
- Each Twiki Web has its own WebPreferences page, with controls specific only to that particular web.

## CSS Skins 

- To Completely change the look of Twiki:
- Go to the PatternSkin topic in the Twiki web
- Edit the Layout.css, and Style.css attachments using an html editor, or
- Download a skin from the web.

## Plugins 

- Plugins provide a means of extending a Twiki’s usability, and practicality.
- They are simply unzipped in the proper twiki directory.
- A variety of plugins are available, table, spread sheet, slide show, form, flowchart..., just to name a few.
- Access control, and other administrative pligins are available as well.

## THE END 

- Thank You!