About This Workspace 
On this page of the settings, you can modify your workspace's basic information. Refer to the chart below for an explanation of each individual setting. If you make any changes to this setting, you must click the "Save" button in order to set the changes. If you navigate away from the settings page, your changes will not be set.
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This is the title which appears at the top of every PBworks page. For example, the title of this workspace is: PBworks User Manual.
By default, this is your workspace name, but you can change it to any text. While workspace names cannot contain spaces, the Title can.
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This is a short description of the workspace that is visible to users when they attempt to log in. Since this is a public facing setting, do not include any sensitive information in this field.
Anonymous users can see this field without logging in. Also, due to the risk of spam, you probably also want to avoid putting an email address in this field. If users want to contact you, they'll be able to do so through the "Contact the owner" link on the login page, which does not reveal your email address.
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This is the time zone which your workspace is set to. Select the time which is closest to your own local time. This effects the times and dates that users see in the page history of each page.
Note: Currently, this does not shift with Daylight Savings Time. If you live in a region which changes their clocks due to DST, you'll have to manually update this setting each time the clocks change. However, once you change the time in this setting, the change will be reflected in the history of all workspace pages.
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Setting the keyboard language may improve the compatibility of PBworkspace's editor if you're using a browser with a foreign language character set.
However, changing this setting affects no page content in the workspace, and the tools for PBworks will still appear in English.
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This is the email address that gets the messages that are sent in the workspace's contact form. By default, this is the creator of the workspace, but you can set this address to any address you want.
Note: Changing this address does not change the owner of the workspace. To change the owner of the workspace, the only Administrator with the authorization to delete the entire workspace, you must contact Support.
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If you make any changes to this setting, you must click the "Save" button in order to set the changes. If you navigate away from the settings page, your changes will not be set. |
Colors
You can set the color scheme on your workspace by clicking on "Settings" in the upper right corner of your workspace, and then clicking on "Colors" on the left hand side. On all workspaces, you can select one of the 9 pre-defined color schemes (highlighted with yellow in the image below).
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 Admins of premium workspaces can set their own Custom Color Template (highlighted in green) to have more control of the workspace's colors. This option is disabled on basic workspaces.
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Custom Color Template 
To access the color picker tool, Choose the "custom" option as highlighted in the image above (green) on your workspace's "Settings" > "Colors" page.
The Color Picker Tool
Scrolling down from the Color Scheme options, you will find a small representation of your workspace page's color scheme (see image below).
When you click on an area of your workspace's color model, a small color picker tool will pop-up, allow you to choose any color for the workspace element that you've selected (see image below). You can click on virtually any box or piece of text in the color model, and change the color of that particular section. For example, when you click the word "Page Name" the text will shake, and the color picker will appear, letting you change the color to whatever you need.
If you want to set the value to a precise web color, you can specify the hex-value of the color in the color picker and click OK to set it.
After you've finished selecting your workspace's colors, please remember to click on the "Save Color Scheme" button. If you want to start over, you can also click the "Reset to default button" or change the color scheme to one of the nine pre-set template options.
Logo 
The logo upload is a feature of premium workspaces which allows users to set their own logo in the workspace title. The logo completely replaces the workspace title, so if you still want the workspace title to show, you must include that text in the image file you're uploading. The image you're uploading can be as wide as you want, however, PBworks will automatically resize your image if it exceeds 40 pixels in height.
For best results, resize your image to 40 pixels in height using your own image editor. That way, you can be sure that the image you submit for the logo will be the same as the image that gets used.
You can add a logo to your workspace by clicking on "Settings" in the upper right corner of your workspace, and then clicking on "Logo" on the left hand side.
Here you can upload an image file for your workspace's logo by clicking on the "Browse" button, selecting the file from your computer, and then clicking on the "Upload" button to send the logo to your workspace (see image below). Supported logo file formats include .jpg, .gif, and .png.
Backup
Note: This feature is only enabled on premium workspaces.
If you're interested in this feature, but have questions about upgrading, please check out the Billing section of this manual.
PBworks takes data storage very seriously, and backups of your workspace are constantly made behind the scenes to prevent data loss in the event of a catastrophic system failure. We monitor our servers very closely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 366 days a year (leap year!), so you can rest assured that your data is safe on PBworks.
However, you may still want to make a backup of your particular workspace. For technical reasons, our backups are never made available to the public, or our customers, for any reason. They are only accessible by PBwiki Inc., and only in the event of a problem with our system.
In order for you to make a backup of your own workspace, so that you can keep it and access it anytime you want, just follow these steps:
Making a Local Backup
- Click Settings in the upper right corner of the workspace. If you don't see the Settings link, then you don't sufficient privleges to make a backup of the workspace.
- Click Backup, on the left hand side.
- You'll see the backup button with three options.
- Include current versions of all pages
- This option, to get the current version of all pages of your workspace, is automatically enabled, and cannot be disabled.
- Include previous versions
- You can manually check the second option so that your back up includes all data from all previous versions of the page.
- Include files
- Checking the option to include files will include your uploaded files in the downloaded ZIP archive. Please note that this option will drastically increase the amount of time it takes to download the backup, depending on how big your uploaded files are.
Once you've checked the options you want, click the "Download Backup" button to start the download.
Backup Limitations
Currently, the backup system will only backup pages and files (if that option is checked) on the workspace. Comments, workspace settings, users, and user security settings are not included in this backup.
Restoring a workspace page from a Backup file
To recover from an accidental deletion, you can restore a page from a .ZIP Backup by following these steps:
- Open the .ZIP file.
- Open the "RAW" folder.
- Find the page that you'd like to restore and open the text file.
- Select and copy all text.
- Create a new workspace page.
- Click on the "Source" button to access the workspace's source code.
- Paste the "RAW" page content.
- Exit the "Source" view to confirm that you copied and pasted everything.
- Click on the "Save" button to complete the page restoration.
This feature is new/improved