PBworks User Manual

Advanced Settings

CSS & JavaScript

(Premium Workspaces) - interested in this feature, but have questions about upgrading? Please check out the Billing section of this Manual.

This is an advanced feature and probably isn't appropriate for users unfamiliar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you are just interested in customizing your workspace color scheme you can do this more easily at your workspace's Settings > Colors page.

With this feature, you can add custom code to the <head> section of your workspace here. This is useful for inserting custom CSS (with a <style> tag) or JavaScript (with a <script> tag) , or to employ third-party services such as Google Analytics. The changes that you make will affect every page of your workspace.

Please insert only custom code with which you are familiar. Javascript, and even links to images outside your control, can be used to compromise the security of your workspace. For an introductory offering of Custom CSS code for your Premium workspace, please visit the Official PBworks Custom CSS Guide. Also, on premium workspaces, PBworks offers a few more settings that you can use to change the look and feel of your workspace (no CSS or Javascript required, see the Customization section of this page for details).

If you encounter any undesired results, please try removing your custom code.

Custom Domains

Custom Domains is a premium feature which allows a site to use PBworks to host content on their site, but also allow them to use their own domain (URL address). So, instead of directing customers to a PBworks.com site for more information, the workspace would seem to be a natural extension of the original site.

For information on setting up this feature on your Professional or Professional Plus workspace, click here.

Customization

PBworks now offers advanced customization features for premium users that want to have a little more control over how their workspace looks, and what gets displayed to users. To access the customization tools, click Settings, and then Click on the "Customization" link on the left hand side.

Getting to your Customization Options

By default, all options in Customization are enabled, with comment sorting being newest to oldest. Workspace administrators can mix and match enabling and disabling any of these options to change the workspace's look and feel. Whenever you make any change to this setting, you must click "Save" in the lower left corner in order for the setting to take effect. You should be able to see each change immediately on any of your workspace's pages.

Customization Options

Please note that all of these changes are purely cosmetic, and with the exception of the Contact Form setting, changing these settings have no effect on the function of your workspace or any access your users have to information. To permenantly restrict access, you must set custom page and folder security.

Comment Settings

Display Comments

Check and uncheck the "Show comments & comments form" setting to enable and disable comments.

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Comments Enabled

Comments Disabled

Change Comment Sorting

When comments are enabled, you can also choose whether you want the newest or oldest comments to be displayed first.

Use Nested Comments

Nested comments is another sorting feature available to premium workspaces. The nested comments option allows your users to make comments about comments, so the comments section can be a a more interactive discussion about the content on the page.

General Settings

Contact Form

Check and uncheck the "Show contact form for this workspace" setting to enable and disable the contact form that allows people to contact the workspace owner. The contact form is a seperate page, which allows users to email the workspace owner without an external email program. This is enabled by default to give your users an opportunity to contact you without revealing your real email address. An example of the form that is displayed when the link is clicked is available here.

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Contact Form Enabled	Contact Form Disabled

Note: If the PBworks Footer is disabled, but the Contact form is enabled, then the contact form will still be available, only the link will not be displayed. In this situation, you can still manually link to the contact form by directing users to "http://yourworkspacename.pbworks.com/contact.php" (replace "yourworkspacename" with the name of your workspace).

If the contact form is disabled in this setting, the contact form will be completely unavailable. Even if a user manually goes to yourworkspacename.pbworks.com/contact.php, they will not be able to use the contact form.

Page History Info Button

This feature allows the Page History link (along with the clock icon) in the corner of each workspace page to be hidden from plain view.

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Page History Enabled

Page History Disabled

Note: Unchecking the checkbox for this setting does not completely disable Page History. All revisions of every page are still saved and any user of your workspace can still access it by going to "http://yourworkspacename.pbworks.com/FindPage?RevisionsFor=FrontPage" (this would list all the revisions for the FrontPage. Replace the name of the page for other pages). To completely get rid of past revisions, either an Administrator or Editor needs to click the red "Delete" buttons in the Page History.

PBworks Footer

Uncheck this setting to remove the entire PBworks footer from the bottom of every workspace page.

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Footer Enabled	Footer Disabled

Note: This is simply a superficial change to how the workspace is displayed. The availablity of the RSS feed, the "Contact the owner" form, and all other links in the footer will be unchanged by this setting.

Workspace Title and Logo

Uncheck this setting to remove the workspace title and logo from the top of the workspace.

Enabled	Disabled

Right Panel Settings

Show / Hide right panel by default

The right panel of your workspace can be hidden or shown to new users of your workspace. Uncheck the "Show right panel by default" option to disable the right panel by default.

Enabled	Disabled

Note: If you do uncheck this setting, all users will still be able to get the right panel to show again by clicking the small triangle in the upper right corner of the page. If a user does choose to show or hide the right panel, it will be saved as a personal choice, and so this setting will not be enforced for that user until they log out.

Folders

Uncheck the "Show Folders" setting to remove the folder listing from the right panel of your workspace.

Note: This does not effect the availabilty of folders to any user in your workspace. To restrict access to certain folders in your workspace, you must set custom Folder Security in the Pages & Files Manager. Any folders not accessible to a user, through the Folder Security options, will not be shown in this folders list, nor in the Pages & Files manager, when the user logs in.

Recent Workspace Activity

Uncheck the "Show Recent Workspace Activity" setting to remove the box from the right panel which shows the recent workspace activity.

Note: Even if the recent workspace activity option is unchecked, the listing of recent changes is still accessible at "http://yourworkspacename.pbworks.com/changes.php" Any changes done to pages that are not accessible to a certain user will not be shown when they log in.

Share this workspace

Uncheck the "Show Share this workspace" setting to remove the "Share this workspace" box from the right panel.

Note: By default, this option is only shown to Administrators of the workspace as they are the only ones with sufficient permission to add users to a private workspace. If this setting is unchecked, the Administrators will have to add users by clicking "Settings" and then accessing the "Users" menu.

Sidebar

Uncheck the "Show Sidebar" setting to remove the "Sidebar" box from the right panel.

Note: This will only remove the Sidebar from being displayed in your workspace's right panel. The page "SideBar" will still exist on your workspace, in case you want to add it back later.

Developer Interface

The Developer Interface allows advanced user to work with PBworks' API. You can find documentation for the API at http://pbworks.com/api_v2/. Unfortunately, PBworks Support will not be able to help you with your API questions. You can either email api@pbworks.com, join the API mailing list, or sign up for professional services to assist you with your API work.

Delete

Deleting a works is serious business. Your data will be completely deleted and cannot be restored by PBworks. The workspace name will be retired so it won't be usable by anyone else ever again – including you. You may want to consider changing ownership to another user or marking the workspace as private. Keep in mind that if you have a PayPal subscription to PBworks, you will need to cancel this subscription before deleting your workspace.

License

This workspace page is used to apply your workspace purchase, if you have worked directly with our sales team. You can find more information on our Billing for Business page.