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<sidebar>UGR Report Template Nav</sidebar>
 
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Instructions for creating your web based wiki report
 
 
To create you web based report, you need to know a few tricks in WikiSpeak. Just edit this page and copy and paste from here to your new pages.
 
To create you web based report, you need to know a few tricks in WikiSpeak. Just edit this page and copy and paste from here to your new pages.
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages Link to MediaWiki help page]
 
* To create a new page, edit the page where the link should be and use the wiki syntax: [[New Page | New Page]]. When you click on New Page it will automatically create the page for you if it doesn't exist. Edit this page to see the syntax.
 
* To create a new page, edit the page where the link should be and use the wiki syntax: [[New Page | New Page]]. When you click on New Page it will automatically create the page for you if it doesn't exist. Edit this page to see the syntax.
 
* For main headings on the same page, use the == around the heading name. This will create sub-pages automatically.
 
* For main headings on the same page, use the == around the heading name. This will create sub-pages automatically.

Revision as of 18:47, 26 April 2010

<sidebar>UGR Report Template Nav</sidebar> To create you web based report, you need to know a few tricks in WikiSpeak. Just edit this page and copy and paste from here to your new pages.

  • Link to MediaWiki help page
  • To create a new page, edit the page where the link should be and use the wiki syntax: New Page. When you click on New Page it will automatically create the page for you if it doesn't exist. Edit this page to see the syntax.
  • For main headings on the same page, use the == around the heading name. This will create sub-pages automatically.
  • For Bullets, use * or ** for multiple levels
  • Link to URL Example
  • To link to an uploaded file (PDF for example)
    • Click on the "Upload File" link in the "toolbox" on the left side of the page and browse to file. Uploaded file name might be reformatted on the wiki so copy the file name and paste that into your wiki page. Also, the filename is case sensitive!
    • Link to PDF Example
  • Insert an image

Zach and his Robot

    • Click on the "Upload File" link in the "toolbox" on the left side of the page
    • Browse to the image.
    • There are several syntax examples on the Upload page to use depending on how you want the image to render
  • Insert a video <player>MVI_2467.AVI</player>
  • Insert a video <player align="right" width="400">MVI_2467.AVI</player>
    • To install and enable the Custom Sidebar extension click [here]

Create a custom navigation box

  • To install and enable the Custom Sidebar extension click [here]
  • Create a new wiki page - use your main report page name with Nav as the suffix.
  • Copy and Paste from the Sidebar for this page UGR Report Template Navigation
  • Edit this document and look at the top line to see and example of how to invoke the custom navigation box. Add the sidebar line to all of the pages of your report.

Writing Equations

The equation editor uses TEX syntax where you can do:

<math>a_{i,j} + a^2 = \sqrt{z^2}</math>