Creating Pages
There are a few ways to create a page in PBworks, and you can make as many pages as you need on your workspace. Please keep in mind, however, that each page created may not be obvious to users unless you link to them in the FrontPage, SideBar, or in a related page.
Clicking the "Create a Page" Link
- In the upper right corner of your workspace, you'll see a link to create a page. Click on this link.
- You'll then see a form which lets you input the title of the new page, and select a template to use. Make the appropriate selections, and click "Create Page."
Creating a page in the Pages & Files manager
- While viewing the Pages & Files manager, click the "New" button.
- Select "Create a workspace page..."
- Enter the title of the page and make the appropriate selections. Click "Create Page."
Creating a page in edit mode
- While in edit mode, type the name of the new page you want to create, and select all the text of that new page.
- Click the "Insert/Edit Link" button (highlighted below) in the editor toolbar.
- The menu will appear, with the link type already being "PBworks page," and the page set to "New Page." The Page Name will also already be set with the name of the page you want to create (the text you selected in Step 1). Click OK.
- Save the page.
- When you click on the link you just created, you'll be sent to the "Create a page" form, because the page does not exist yet. Once the page is created, the link will immediately bring the page up, as normal.
Limits on Page Names
The names of pages need to go into the URL, so not all characters are allowed. In addition to these characters, space characters before and after the first and last non-space character, will be stripped from the page name.
Name
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Character |
Name |
Character |
| Period |
. |
Forward slash |
/ |
| Left Square Bracket |
[ |
Backslash |
\ |
| Right Square Bracket |
] |
Plus symbol |
+ |
| Question Mark |
? |
Number symbol |
# |
| Ampersand |
& |
Percent symbol |
% |
| Vertical Bar |
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Renaming Pages and Files
Method 1
- Find the page you want to rename, and enter Edit mode. You must have editing rights on the page, and be an Editor or Administrator on the workspace, in order to rename it.
- While in Edit mode, click on the "Rename this page" link under Page Tools on the right hand side.
- Use the form to rename the page. Please note, that if you rename a page, all links to that page will be broken. You can find which pages link to this page by doing a Search for "src:<page name>" (with spaces in the page name replaced with +s), and then edit the links on each page to point to the renamed page.
Method 2
- Log in as an Administrator or an Editor, and click the "Pages & Files" link on your workspace.
- Find the page you want to rename, and then click "Rename". Type in your new page name, and press "enter" on your keyboard to save.
If you don't see the "Rename" option using either of these methods, then you may not have the appropriate permission on the workspace to rename pages. A workspace can be set to allow one person to edit pages, but not rename them.
Deleting Pages and Files
Important: Deleting pages and files is an irreversible action, and once a page or file has been deleted it cannot be recovered. The backups we make of your workspace are in the event of catastrophic system failure, and cannot be used to retrieve specific pages and files on your workspace. In order to minimize the risk of deletion, you may want to put your users' permission level to "Writer." Writers can edit pages and add files, but cannot delete.
Please delete carefully, and at your own risk.
Method 1
- Click the Pages & Files link in the upper right corner of your workspace.
- Find the page or file you want to delete in the list. Check the box next to the file you wish to delete. You can check more than one page or file if you want to delete more than one page or file at a time.
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Click the Delete button. You'll also have to click a dialogue box to make sure you want to delete the page or file. The confirm dialog will tell you how many pages you're about to delete. Click the "OK" button in the confirm dialog box to delete the page or file.
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Please note that all links to the deleted page will be broken. You can find which pages link to the deleted page by doing a Search for "src:<page name>" (with spaces in the page name replaced with +s), and then remove the links from each page.
Method 2 (Deleting Pages)
- On the page you want to delete, enter edit mode, by clicking Edit.
- To the right, above the insert links box, are the page tools to rename and delete a page, click "Delete this page".
- Because this action is only for one page, the confirm dialog looks a bit different. Click "OK" to delete the page.
Accessing Older Versions of Pages and Files
Page Versions
Method 1
- Navigate to the page for which you want to see the revisions.
- Click on Page History.
- You'll be presented with a list of revisions. These dates and times represent every time the page has been saved.
Click on the date and time of the revision you want to see.
- If you would like to revert to the page, just click the "Revert to this version" link at the top of the page revision. This will make this previous version, the current version of the page.
Method 2
- Click on the link "Pages & Files" at the top right of your workspace.
- For each file, there's a number associated with the number of revisions. Click on that number.
- You'll be presented with a list of revisions. These dates and times represent every time the page has been saved.
Click on the date and time of the revision you want to see.
- If you would like to revert to the page, just click the "Revert to this version" link at the top of the page revision. This will make this previous version, the current version of the page.
File Versions
- Click on the link "Pages & Files" at the top right of your workspace.
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Click the "All Files" tab on the left to see only the files in your workspace.
- For each file, there's a number associated with the number of revisions. Click on that number.
- You'll be presented with a list of revisions. These dates and times represent every time a file with that same file name has been uploaded. Click on the date and time to see how the file was at that particular date and time.
- If you would like to revert a file from a previous version, just click the "Revert" link, beneath the file. This will make this previous version, the current version of the file.
Adding links, images, tables, plugins and HTML to a page
See these pages: Working with Links, Working with Images, Working with Tables, Working with Plugins, Working with HTML,
Tagging Pages
What are page tags? 
Tags are simple text labels that further describe or categorize a page; for example, a public zoo workspace may use an "animals" tag to identify pages about their special tenants, or a business may use departmental tags to enhance organization and the ability to find information. You can add tags to any workspace page by clicking the "Add Tags" link on your workspace's right panel (see image below).
Searching for Tagged Pages
Can't remember the name of a page, but remember it's tag? Use your workspace's search tool to search for pages marked with a tag by entering tag:"anytag", replacing "anytag" with a tag that you have attached to the page.
Example: to search for all pages tagged with a "report" tag, enter tag:report into your workspace's Search bar.
Listing of All Tags and Tagged Pages
For a complete list of all tags and tagged pages, you can direct your workspace's users to your tags.php page by entering the following URL into your browser's address bar: "yourworkspace".pbworks.com/tags.php, replacing "yourworkspace" with your workspace's name.
Example: for a list of all tags used by the PBworks Manual, check out usermanual.pbworks.com/tags.php
The template Tag
If you tag a workspace page with the word "template" (no quotes, lowercase), it will show up in your list of templates when you create a new page. A great way to reduce repetitive actions, this is especially good for invoices, grading rubrics, or anything else you can imagine!
Adding a Table of Contents
The TOC (table of contents) plugin allows you to display a linked list at the top of the page which lists every heading in the page below. Clicking on these links in the table of contents takes you to that precise heading in the workspace page. If you have a page with lots of different headings, a table of contents can help your users find the exact information they need in the page. An example of a Table of Contents is found at the top of this page.
Click here for more information on adding a Table of Contents to your workspace page.
Folders
Folders allow page categorization to better organize your workspace. As the number of pages and files in your workspace grows, folders can be indispensable tool for you to better organize your pages and files.
Click here for more information on using folders.
Search
PBworks offers you a robust search engine. Use these search tips to fine-tune your results:
- A plus sign (+) before a word means it must be included in search results (eg: brown +cow returns pages that may contain "brown" but must contain "cow")
- A minus sign (-) before a word means it must be removed from search results. (eg: brown -cow returns pages that contain “brown” but not “cow”)
- Quotes ("") around a phrase returns that exact phrase (eg: "brown cow" returns pages that include the exact phrase “brown cow")
- Also, search results are sorted by weight, which means that a page with a lot of the mention of the keyword will show up at the top of the list.
- The order of search keywords does not affect score / output.
- Adding "tag:foo" anywhere in the search box will constrain the search to only look at pages tagged "foo" (and their comments). You can't yet perform a search that will only look at pages tagged with both "foo" and "bar". (I.e., you can only search with one tag restriction at a time)
- Adding "folder:foo" anywhere in the search box will constrain the search to only look at pages in folder "foo" (and their comments). This doesn't yet apply to files in that folder.
- Searching across attachment content (.DOC, .PDF, .XLS, .PPT, .TXT) is a feature currently availabe only to paying users.
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