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Actually, almost all the SharePoint wiki markup is provided through the GUI (on the ribbon). So, there is no special SharePoint wiki syntax, except [[links]] syntax.
where can I find the documentation?
When you create standard "Team Site", where is a page with tips on wiki markup, which mention [[ command to create internal links. The url of this page ...
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This is a tough one. It's unreasonable to expect that the SharePoint team would be able to build a better wiki than people who only build wikis. They're not going to build a better blog engine than people who specialize in building just a blog. So the "SharePoint wiki is better than XYZOpenWiki" argument is probably one you are going to lose.
I think you ...
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Sharepoint wikis are just not enterprise worthy. We gave a lot of feedback to Kevin Davis, the former PM for wikis, about how poor they were. I was excited they were taking feedback about the feature but it seems that none of the suggestions the community made got rolled into the product.
If users need a robust wiki, then trying to pigeon hole them into ...
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You can also use the two together. I played around with the SharePoint Connector for Confluence when it was in beta about 3 years ago and it looked pretty solid. I was able to get the benefits of the Confluence wiki from within SharePoint through some web parts (the SharePoint 2007 wiki was horrible) while also being able to use SharePoint for what it is ...
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I'm not aware of changes to the wiki "language" used in SharePoint 2010.
The user interface has certainly improved. For example typing the [[ characters will present a drop-down menu of available items to choose from (see this post by Michal Pisarek).
If there are certain language features you are looking for, please update your post with more details.
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You can add as many web parts to a wiki page as you want.
You can use either the Text Layout button (on Ribbon) to do things like split the page up into multiple columns.
If that doesn't give you granular enough control then add a table (use Insert > Table) with 1 row and 2 cols and add the web parts into the cells.
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I'm lifting the answer I wrote for a similar question on Stack Overflow, since it seemed reasonably well-received there:
We run into this topic all the time, and the first question I have taken to asking people is "Why do you need a wiki"? Almost always the answers are things "ease of editing", "multiple contributors", and "Word is to heavyweight". Very ...
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If I understand the question, you are looking for a client-side editor, rather than using the editor in-browser. I don't think there is one - you are stuck with either the in-browser editor that comes out-of-the-box or a third party one such as Telerik. The Telerik editor used to be widely used in the 2007 version of SharePoint, but in 2010 the built-in one ...
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Unfortunately, I think that the answer is "no".
I've also answered your other thread about using Live Writer, which I don't believe is possible; I just tried to set it up again, and it still doesn't work. Live Writer is built for blogs.
EDIT: SharePoint is a Web-based application, so that's the editor: the browser. You can enhance SharePoint to work better ...
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I think that Live Writer still doesn't work with SharePoint Wikis directly. There are some rather unpleasant workarounds in this old thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11462/sharepoint-wikis if you want to give them a try.
p.s. I found that with a quick Bing. I knew it was out there somewhere, but still...
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I'd say that there is no such thing as "child page". If you need to create a hierarchy, then HR has to be a container. Within this container you would have the default page and then other pages. Just like what SharePoint does with sites.
If for some reason all your pages need to be in the same container, then you cannot expect SharePoint to understand your ...
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If you have SharePoint Designer installed, you should be able to use it to create a custom page layout with more WebPart zones.
When I did it, I believe I used this site: http://www.mssharepointtips.com/tip.asp?id=940&page=2. The site shows a MOSS2007 site, but I believe it worked for 2010 as well.
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If you have a bunch of users that are super-geeky Wiki-markup power users, there is nothing in SharePoint your are going to give them that will make them happy. OTOH, if you have people (in my experience there are lots more of these) using Confluence as a basic knowledge management tool, you could probably point to things like a more friendly editor in ...
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I think you're asking the wrong question, or at least, you need to be able to answer "Why?" or "What's Confluence not giving your users?" before you start planning how to convince them.
Is the technology better? Will faries give you 3 wishes if you move to SharePoint? Do organisations running SharePoint have better Feng Shui?
Calendars, announcements, etc. ...
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When getting "An unexpected error has occurred" you should check the ULS logs in SharePoint.
The error page will (in SharePoint 2010) contain a correlation id (a guid) which is unique for the particular request and error. This correlation id is also used in the ULS logs. You can find the ULS logs in the {SharePoint Root}\LOGS. Search for the correlation id ...
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MOSS 2007 provides a WIKI template for collab portals. You can also use a WIKI page library to store your pages. If you want to enhance the usability check this site.
Try this resource http://www.bitsofsharepoint.com/Site/Wiki.aspx
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I create my own "Category" column and set the type to "choice". Specify my choices, and all set! You can then leverage that to build a "Table of Contents" grouped by Category (as long as pages can only be part of 1 category).
There's a great HowTo here: Link
One step further (if you want to allow others to be able to add more categories without giving them ...
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It is possible to create a custom layout for wiki pages in MOSS 2007, however there is a major drawback: pages created using the layout will be unghosted, which can lead to major performance problems.
We encountered this problem on a project a couple of years ago, and one of my coworkers describes the issue here.
You are basically stuck between ...
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Save Site as Template: Why is the “include content” section available for some sites but not others?
Here you have a list of what is included and what is not included when saving site as template:
Save a SharePoint site as a template
NOT INCLUDED IN USER SOLUTION WSP
Publishing pages and publishing sites
And Enterprise Wiki is publishing template:
Sites and site collections overview
Template Enterprise Wiki
Purpose ...
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Even though this is just a Wiki Page Library the WelcomePage property will work. Here is how you can set it using PowerShell:
$web = Get-SPWeb http://sharepoint
$list = $web.Lists["Second page lib"]
$list.RootFolder.WelcomePage = "How%20To%20Use%20This%20Library.aspx"
$list.RootFolder.Update()
The page you set it to should exists otherwise it choose the ...
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The simplest solution I think would be to export your Wiki site from the server using stsadm.
I strongly advise against looking into the raw database, particularly for backup purposes as your backup will almost never be recoverable.
Chris O'Brien has a good blog post on this with examples:
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You can create sub-sites for your publishing portal that are not publishing sites using the stsadm command: stsadm.exe -o createweb -url http://path-to-publishing-site/subsite-name -sitetemplate -title
For more information, see here: http://sharepointhillbilly.com/archive/2009/07/09/creating-a-sub-site-of-a-publishing-site-that-is-not.aspx.
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Perhaps you've already solved this and moved on, but since I ended up here when searching for a solution and didn't find it, I better add my solution:
A customer had exactly the same problem and the reason for it was that the customer is using a Language Pack (Swedish) on the site.
Solution: Go to the user menu (upper right corner) and switch to English. ...
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Since you are on a hosted 2007 environment server-side PowerShell and C# are out of consideration. Your best bet is to use jQuery to retrieve the Wiki article content via the lists.asmx Web service.
IIRC, there is a jQuery SharePoint Web service library on www.codeplex.com which could be helpful, but I never tried it myself.
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As, this site is part of the SharePoint portal it is not possible for me to port to a different tool. And, my solution requires to add content types and webparts on the wiki pages.
Now, I am following the approach mentioned by Pavan to add a seperate wiki file for your customization ...
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is using web analytics a possibility for you? see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2010/03/21/introducing-web-analytics-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
I believe there are some out of the box webparts that can show most visited pages and things like that
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Try to add this in the elements file under CustomActions as a parameters:
RegistrationType="List"
RegistrationId="119"
The number 119 referes to a WebPageLibrary ("Wiki Library" (also “Site Pages” in 2010))
More information here:
http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2008/01/sharepoint-registrationid-list-template.html
PS: it might also be possible ...
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http://example.com/wiki/Pages/home.aspx?ControlMode=Edit&DisplayMode=Design
You need to pass the parameter ControlMode=Edit and DisplayMode=Design to the aspx page if you like to open it in edit mode.
It's the same as it always was. SharePoint 2010 just hides the parameter and change the modes using a Javascript.
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You will need to write a custom import tool with the Client Object Model. If your export is well formatted in XML, it should not be very difficult. You need to import the HTML content of each page into a new Enterprise Wiki page in SharePoint.
That's the short version... In practice, there are a number of things you might want to tweak: parse and replace ...
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That sounds about right to me. The wiki approach will allow you to hot link to other pages easily, [[page|optional description text]]. We've got several sites with project documentation, policies, and procedures using the wiki and a document library to do the exact same thing (in 2007). It works well and is easy to use.
Also with the wiki approach, don't ...
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