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Can I re-order Wiki pages?

 

If so then how do I do it please?
 

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:09 PM, <vijaybhuchar@...> wrote:
If so then how do I do it please?
You can create a "home" wiki page that contains links to the other pages and present them in any order or categorization that you want.?

Other than that, I don't know what you might mean by "re-ordering" them.

Hope this helps,
Bruce?
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:52 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
Other than that, I don't know what you might mean by "re-ordering" them.
I think it means change the order in which they are listed if there is not a Home Page with links set up; the group I moderate does not have a Home Page, just a list of the various wiki pages. The list will always appear in alphabetical order, which might result in members "reading them in the wrong order"

However, for alphabetical order read alphanumerical order, so it is perfectly possible to set the pages in the order required by putting a number as the first character, rather than the initial letter of the page title. This is how I set it up in our wiki; not perfect but it serves. :) Now I haven't put it to the test in the wiki section but if it mirrors how things behave within photo albums then things can go a little awry if the numbering runs 1 to 9, followed by 10, a bit like early version of Windows did in directories; the solution to that is for the numbers 1 to 9 to be typed as 01 to 09, followed by 10. The page order will be determined by the number, not the initial letter.

Again I haven't put it to the test but I strongly suspect that it wll go wrong again if the numbering goes above 99, in which case the answer will be to list 1 to 99 as 001 to 099, but that would result in a gigantic wiki, or an equally gigantic photo album. I suspect that would be a purely theoretical problem, not a real one.

Chris
 


Thanks Chris, ?I set up a Home page and noticed that I could insert the individual Wiki page in any order. ?That's exactly what I wanted, so I am happy now.


On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:53 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:52 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
Other than that, I don't know what you might mean by "re-ordering" them.
I think it means change the order in which they are listed if there is not a Home Page with links set up; the group I moderate does not have a Home Page, just a list of the various wiki pages. The list will always appear in alphabetical order, which might result in members "reading them in the wrong order"

However, for alphabetical order read alphanumerical order, so it is perfectly possible to set the pages in the order required by putting a number as the first character, rather than the initial letter of the page title. This is how I set it up in our wiki; not perfect but it serves. :) Now I haven't put it to the test in the wiki section but if it mirrors how things behave within photo albums then things can go a little awry if the numbering runs 1 to 9, followed by 10, a bit like early version of Windows did in directories; the solution to that is for the numbers 1 to 9 to be typed as 01 to 09, followed by 10. The page order will be determined by the number, not the initial letter.

Again I haven't put it to the test but I strongly suspect that it wll go wrong again if the numbering goes above 99, in which case the answer will be to list 1 to 99 as 001 to 099, but that would result in a gigantic wiki, or an equally gigantic photo album. I suspect that would be a purely theoretical problem, not a real one.

Chris

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