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User Guide: XWiki

Andreea ish edited this page Jan 28, 2025 · 37 revisions

This is one of EIC network's collaborative tools, to organize knowledge. The EIC knowledge base grows stronger with each project. Here is a detailed XWiki User Guide.

Below are some of the key functionalities debunked:

Home page

On the upper right corner you can set up your Profile, search for pages, get notification, and search for pages, users and wikis indexes.

The left side bar takes you to 'Applications' and 'Navigation' panels.

Applications

  • The 'Dashboard' allows you to view pages, tags and your activity stream.
  • The 'Help' section, shows you videos, basic features and other details about Xwiki.

Navigation Panel

Navigate through all your wiki pages.

Create Page

Xwiki allows for 'Nested Pages' (pages with children) and sub-wikis.

On the homepage, go to the 'Create' button on the right upper corner and create your Page.

Use the editor to describe what your page is all about and click Save & View.

Create Nested Pages (children)

To create children and map them to your parent page, go to the parent page and hit the 'Create' button.

The child pages will be grouped under your parent page, and are visible on the left hand side navigation panel.

Page History

Whenever your make a modification to a page it is stored in that page's version history. You can compare any 2 versions of a page to see what has been changed between them. You can easily rollback to a previous version of a page if a recent modifications appears to be wrong.

Delete a page

To delete a page, go to the upper right corner, click on the three dots icon and select 'Delete'. You can choose if you want to delete also the children pages by checking the 'Affect children' box.




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