Creating Pages
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Here 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 "Add Link" button (highlighted below) in the editor toolbar.
- The menu will appear, with the page name already set up to be the text you've selected. You can either keep this name (by pressing Enter immediately) or you can set a new name for the page. For instance, if you replaced "My New Page" here with the word "Elephant", the link would still show "My New Page", but when clicked, the link would take the user to the page named "Elephant".
- Save the page.
- Finally, click the link you just created. When you click on a link to a non-existent page, you'll be sent to the "Create a page" form, because the page does not exist yet and you are logged in as a user that can create pages. Once the page is created, the link will immediately bring the page up immediately, and will work for all users.
Limits on Page Names
The names of pages need to go into the URL, so not all characters are allowed.
Spaces are allowed in page names, but spaces at the beginning or end of the page name will be cleared when the page is created.
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Name |
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Forward slash |
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| Left Square Bracket |
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Backslash |
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| Right Square Bracket |
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Plus symbol |
+ |
| Question Mark |
? |
Number symbol |
# |
| Ampersand |
& |
Percent symbol |
% |
| Vertical Bar |
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Renaming Pages and Files
Note: The "SideBar" page cannot be renamed, however, all other pages of your workspace can be renamed.
Method 1: In the Pages & Files tab
- Log in as an Administrator or an Editor, and click the "Pages & Files" tab on your workspace.
- Find the page you want to rename, and then click the more menu for the page or file you want to rename and 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. Users with Writer or Reader status on a page cannot rename it.
Method 2: In edit mode
- 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.
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 tab on your workspace:
- Find the page or file you want to delete in the list. If you need to delete a single page or file, click the more button and then click to Delete the item.
You can check more than one page or file if you want to delete more than one page or file at a time. If you need to delete more than one page or file, check the checkboxes next to each item, and then click the Delete button at the top of the list.
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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
- Click on the link "Pages & Files" tab at the top of your workspace to get to the file manager.
- For each file or page entry click the "More" button which appears when you hover over any entry, and a menu will appear which shows 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 the item you selected is a file, the list of revisions will look a bit different, but it provides the same functionality. Click on the revision you want to see.
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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.
Tip: For files, you can revert to the version directly from the "More" menu:
Tip: You can also get to the page or file History of any page by clicking the History link in the upper right corner of the page, shown below:
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
Tags are words and phrases that can be associated with workspace pages to make searching easier. If a page is tagged with a keyword, when that keyword is searched, pages with that tag will appear at the top of the list.
Here are the steps for tagging a page:
- Click the "Add Tags" link on the side of the workspace page. If you can't see this link, then you don't have sufficient permission to create tags.
- When you click the Add Tags link, you should see an input box appear. It will have some gray example text, but once you click inside the box, the example text will disappear.
- Add the words you want associated with the page. You may use a phrase as a tag, and all tags should be separated by commas.
- Click OK, and the tags will be added to the page.
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/w/tags, replacing "yourworkspace" with your workspace's name.
Example: for a list of all tags used by the PBworks Manual, check out usermanual.pbworks.com/w/tags
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. All pages that are tagged with the tag "template" will appear in the drop down list when creating a page.
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.
