Carlos Ramos's dashboard

WOW! Great work Clif, this is an excellent workaround! – Carlos Ramos, on March 03, 2009 11:38

Clif,
You can drag every panel except for this one. Even if the user could hide it would be great. It's that panel that says "In Folder:FOLDERNAME" and has the options to edit tags and security. When you have a hundred pages, the user literally has to scroll down a couple seconds before reaching the Side Panel or comments section. I don't have 100 pages yet, but I'll get there soon I think...

Just wondering what the status is on this? Is there a way that we could at least move the Sidebar above the "Pages in Folder" panel?

I don't think that's currently possible, you'll need a way to either assign a page as a child or store pages in subfolders, either of which you can't do right now.

However, with some scripting it's definitely possible! Are you good with scripting? If so read my other posts http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top... and http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top... Combining the two methods you could accomplish what you want with a couple hours of work.

In any case, if your patient, I'll have the scripts finished in a couple weeks since this is something I'm working on for my wiki as well.

Really, the only thing I feel needs to be done is allowing us to organize the order in which the templates are shown. Even a change as simple as listing the User-Made Templates first, and defaults last would be great. The problem is that eventually when my wiki gets bigger, I'll be using several dozen different templates for each area of Magic tricks...to create uniformity and make it A LOT easier for my users to create pages - at that point all they need to worry about is putting up the text, everything else is done for them.

It isn't something major though, and most people probably overlook it. But like I said, having the user-made templates appear first would be a MAJOR plus.

TextFixer is an excellent source, I've referenced it several times. A couple of others I use are:
http://www.echoecho.com/tools.htm
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html - I recommend this if you use custom colors. It's based on the color wheel which is taught in Art Theory which automatically set's up the colors you should use for your layout.

’ve been trying to get some really complicated bits of code to work lately, and I’ve come up with a nice alternative to have a “second” sidebar, custom menu bar, and Index which I hope can help you out. It’s a bit complicated, but there’s nothing here that’s hard as long as you know how to edit a wiki page! For the moment, I’m using this method to keep a Sortable-Hierarchal-Table of Contents within my site...see http://magicwiki.pbwiki.com for more and scroll to the bottom, that table is stored in an external file and not inside the page at all!

OK, the first thing you’ll need to do is create a “HTML/JavaScript Plugin” wherever you want the block of external Javascript or HTML to go. Then check the box that says “Allow Javascript code...” and paste the following:

<*script type="text/javascript" src="/f/NAMEOFFILE.js">

Removing the * and changing NAMEOFFILE to the name of your file, which must always be a javascript file (even if you only are using a block of HTML, more on that in a bit). If you only wish to reuse a block of HTML, then it’s simple, just upload your Javascript file and your done. If however you want to reuse a piece of HTML or HTML and JavaScript mix, then read on.

The first thing you’ll need to do is create the block of HTML. You can do this by creating a temporary page in your PBWiki, and using the editor to create whatever it is you will be reusing as you want it to appear (Menu, Table of Contents, News Announcements, etc) in your pages. Then go into Source Mode, and copy/paste all the code into this link http://accessify.com/tools-and-wizard... , making sure to uncheck the “Include <*script> tags”. Click the “Convert to JavaScript” button.

Now, open up Notepad, and copy paste the code you got. Save it as NAMEOFFILE.js and upload it to your wiki. Now all you have to do is place a “HTML/JavaScript Plugin” like above in all the pages you want the block of HTML to go. If you need to make changes, you only have to change the NAMEOFFILE.js and not all of the individual pages!

It’s complicated I know, but it’s an excellent alternative if you need to call an external bit of code or HTML, especially if it’s something you edit often (like a Table of Contents) or need throughout many pages (like a Menu Bar). If you don’t understand something or can’t get it to work right let me know. Like I said, I’ve got a rather complicated Table of Contents going, but all I need to do is edit the .js file and all my pages (or the ones I’ll have in the future) are all automatically updated.

I was getting the same problem a while back. I'm using Chrome 1.0.154.48 which I guess is a tiny bit different, but enough that it doesn't happen anymore. Try updating.

The only thing that happens to me now is sometimes the WYSIWYG editor pans NE if I highlight too much with my mouse in source mode, then I have to close the tab completely and open the page back up in a new tab.

Thanks for the links. I think I'll just create a custom gadget next weekend to do this, and I'll post it in this thread when I'm finished.

I'm "familiar" with JavaScript, VbScript, and RBScript as well as a few others, but am I "good" with them is something I'll find out next weekend. I just started work as a Network Manager for the Military, but I rarely work with scripting languages. Anyways, thanks again Clif.

Hmm its not exactly what I need, although that is a good resource! I'm going to have to just create a a script file which uses variables, and assign each video to a variable. I'll just have to play around with it. Thanks anyways :)

Ok thanks for the advice Clif.