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jac2 replied on April 17, 2009 14:38 to the question "where's my page history :-)." in PBwiki:

Doh, thanks Rachel.

Just to fall into the ranks of my users, one thing with Web2 is that you lose a lot of the standard metaphors and things are all over the screen :-). That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

jac2 asked a question in PBwiki on April 17, 2009 14:23:

where's my page history :-).

On V1 there was a history link at the bottom of the page. On V2, I can goto the recent changes in the sidebar and the bottom for "more changes" and then get a list of all changes for all pages.

I was trying to iterate back through the versions of a particular page amongst hundreds of pages and found it really difficult.

What is the URL I needs / button to see the list of changes for this page. it used to have two columns of radio buttons so you could compare any 2 versions.

Help
JAC.

jac2 shared an idea in PBwiki on April 16, 2009 11:45:

Open in a new window for all links.

On URL links, there is now an option to "open in a new window". It would be good to have this for internal WIKI pages as well. AFAICS there are two kinds of links in my wiki, ones that continue the story and ones that are gobbits of information. For the latter, I want to go to another tab / new window. Also to give a consistent metaphor for the users, if it is set to open in a new windows, it should should have an icon by it to open in a new window.

In fact, all links could have an icon to open in a new window, then the user could easily chose without having to know about right clicking.

jac2 replied on April 16, 2009 10:57 to the problem "Links to new wiki pages are not differentiated" in PBwiki:

Hi, we really liked the broken link feature in V1, even if it was a little temperamental. So to this end, not having it is a real pain in V2. My users are saying it is becoming a paper exercise to work out what they have to do to finish a page with lots of links. Paper - Ouch!

jac2 replied on March 20, 2009 15:17 to the question "Advanced PBwiki Search" in PBwiki:

I search my wiki for +sipp +cater and I get what I expect, if I do +sipp +cater +butter, which i think should return no results, I get the equivalent of sipp cater butter, i.e. an or, not an and. I think this is what is going wrong.

jac2 replied on March 11, 2009 17:28 to the idea "No Context (menu's) man! Means no spell check." in PBwiki:

Thanks - just tested on ours and it works. need to look and language and where "Add to custom dictionary" are stored.

Thanks for closing the loop (i.e. telling me it was up and running).

jac2 replied on March 05, 2009 12:28 to the question "Best way to have a stock of wiki links, say in notepad?" in PBwiki:

Bump this into V2.
I need to be able to paste a link into the local wiki (i.e. in this wiki) and the wiki to realise it is a local link and to make it like a native link.

Front Page
vs

http://xyz.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

I know I keep bringing this up in slightly different flavours, but it is a real productivity hurdle using the editor links editor (for us anyway).

jac2 replied on March 05, 2009 09:00 to the question "Is it possible to see traffic and statistics for specific users?" in PBwiki:

If only it were that simple. The MD, me and another person need access from anywhere. so it is user x IP address. I know I could insist we access it through a VPN, but that is not what we want to do.

Plus we believe in monitoring over restriction. If you restrict, people naturally find ways round it, if you monitor, you can observe deviations and train users of the risks & rules and change the rules if they are wrong.

So I would really like to have full audit,
DateTime | IP Address | User | Page Accessed | Referring page.

jac2 replied on March 05, 2009 08:57 to the idea "User Acceptance of WIKI pages." in PBwiki:

So far the application does the TOC and allows you to launch, the rest of the bits are still just in my head.

jac2 shared an idea in PBwiki on March 04, 2009 12:31:

User Acceptance of WIKI pages.

Does anyone use their wiki like this:
We use our wiki as a handbook / knowledge base. We need employees to look over the wiki and be happy they understand the content. Basically it is all director signed off.

The wiki offers no reasonable way of tracking where people have been and what they are happy about other than comments / tags all of which seem to be a bad fit.

To this end I am writting a little application that is a "launcher" that has a table of contents and users can click on the links and also say they have read and are happy with the pages. The wiki currently has about 300 pages, but I am expecting it to end up being thousands.

When a user says they are happy with a page, the system will then track if that page has changed and re-offer it to them as a page they haven't signed off.

Just wanting to see if others have covered this, thought of ways to deal with it.
Regards, JAC

jac2 started following the idea "Feature Request: User Groups" in PBwiki.

jac2 replied on March 04, 2009 10:06 to the question "Is it possible to see traffic and statistics for specific users?" in PBwiki:

Clif, following your links to external statistic, BUT ours is a private paid for wiki and we want to get the IP address / User / Time of Day / Pages visited to be useful to us.

This is pretty important to us as only certain people should be accessing outside the intranet.

jac2 reported a problem in PBwiki on March 04, 2009 09:46:

Undocumented Differences between v1 and v2 (internal links)

I take a backup of my WIKI, parse the HTML files and build a table of contents. This is an indented list with information about what pages link to this page, orphan pages etc.

I have noticed that links are implemented differently in code. When the wiki upgraded the old links are still in there, but new links take the new format.

Important dates for pension payments - SIPP

2009 Training Schedule

Training Schedule 2008

The first is V1 link (notice the spaces have been replaced with +'s)
The second in a V1 page that has been edited using the V2 editor (notice the spaces have been replaced with -'s).
The third is a brand new link in V2 editor, notice no longer has wikilink or any other bits that look like a machine added them.

pbWiki Dev: Am I correct, can I have a syntax for how links are going to be added.

Everyone: Are there any other gotcha's like this.

On the whole very happy with 1 -> 2.
Jason

jac2 replied on November 20, 2008 20:51 to the idea "orphaned page report" in PBwiki:

Hi tim, Unzipped, double clicked (about my level in VS2008). Converted - as it suggested and go:
Warning 1 The referenced component 'ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib' could not be found.
Is this: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource...?
If so, I'll start on my steep VS learning curve.

Thanks a lot.

JAC.

jac2 replied on November 13, 2008 08:50 to the problem "Can't link to local storage" in PBwiki:

tsr - I don't think that will work. If you are in the "internet" zone and you move to the local zone by using file:// most browsers get upset and I wouldn't want to reduce the browser security settings ot allow file otherwise there is bound to be something nasty like file://"cmd format my hard disk"!

Have you tried this lately in IE7 / FF?

jac2 replied on November 12, 2008 08:31 to the idea "orphaned page report" in PBwiki:

TIm,

You kindly helped me out with API stuff when I started looking, but I still haven't had time to do anything. Using the API is definately the next step as I want to put the headers in myself, rather than get users to do it and also build some kind of approval / page has been read system as we use the wiki as office handbook with director sign off and staff required to keep up to date.

I still need to get my head round C# (from Delphi) and this would be a better primer than sat in my office thinking of something to write in .NET.

Which of the tools have you released / shared the source for?

I am waiting on the company to decide if they are going to move to V2 instead of learning API programming in V1, just as they change.
JAC.

jac2 replied on November 11, 2008 09:13 to the problem "Can't link to local storage" in PBwiki:

I like the HFS idea for intranet and may go for that for now. Long term, definately going to write a handler like mailto: or skype: as it all happens on their local machine and security is applied to their user. In our case it is template or standard documents / pdf's that should be used, so to be able to have them authored, stored and available with the minimum of fuss I go for the mailto: type solution, BUT if HFS is a simple install, then that could get them off the ground.

Thanks for all the considered responses.

jac2 replied on November 04, 2008 06:31 to the problem "Insert Link Painful for large WIKIs" in PBwiki:

Just been over there and taken a look. I am not sure if PBWIKI add some plugin to get the copying of internal links to work as they do. My guess is they do, but I'll take a look in a day or so.

If it is a pbwiki plugin to the editor, then I am goosed unless the people at pbwiki publish the spec of the clipboard.

Thanks Tim.

JAC.

jac2 replied on October 31, 2008 08:11 to the problem "Insert Link Painful for large WIKIs" in PBwiki:

Tim,

I think dropdowns unless incrementally filtered, are the wrong UI myself. Just check out how Getsatisfaction works when you start asking a question. An edit you type in with a listview below. It think that is the way to go.

Pasting: Well, AFAICS I would have to find out the clipboard format used by the editor and reproduce that. The Basic text formats (1 & 7 is it) only have the link text. The editor (in V1) uses a custom format 15xxx that seems to have all the juicy stuff, but it is proprietary to the editor, so just mimicing the string I see my do harm as the clipboard under custom types is just a bunch of memory AFAIK.

I did put a support into pbwiki on it, asking how to do it and if not, what was the editors used, but didn't get anywhere.

Does anyone know if the editors used in 1 and 2 are commercial / opensource or are they in-house?

I really don't want to get into the API for this right now as it is a user tool that I want them to be able to use the pbwiki editor.

Aside: The parser has made people happy as they can see the structure of the WIKI in a treeview. It really helps to visualize the shape of the wiki.

JAC.

jac2 replied on October 31, 2008 08:01 to the problem "Illegal characters in wiki backup filenames under windows." in PBwiki:

Clif, will report it.

In my poorly penned example, I found it was a : (colon) and quotes in the name, that caused the problem but I can see the problem with casing as well.

JAC.