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* Insert a video
 
* Insert a video
 
== Create a custom navigation box ==
 
== Create a custom navigation box ==
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* To install and enable the Custom Sidebar extension click [[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CustomSidebar here]]
 
* Create a new wiki page - use your main report page name with Nav as the suffix.
 
* 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 Nav|UGR Report Template Navigation]]
 
* Copy and Paste from the Sidebar for this page [[UGR Report Template Nav|UGR Report Template Navigation]]

Revision as of 17:22, 26 April 2010

<sidebar>UGR Report Template Nav</sidebar> 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 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
  • Insert an image
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    • 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

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 the main page for 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>