There are two major navigation methods in the wiki. One is the college organization chart. The other is the resources chart. Each has a starting grid with links on the wiki landing page:
The Divisions of the College, or College Organization navigation tree simply follows the organization of the college and in most cases, that of wiki spaces. The Resources links provide a faster track for visitors to reach things most relevant to them, faster. The Divisions links go directly to spaces for each of the five divisions. Within the Division spaces, pages or links are arranged by office or departments. The schools within the Academic Affairs Divisions also have their own spaces as well.
The Resources links each go to separate pages in a single space, where there are grids with links. No other pages or content should be in that space if they properly belong to any administrative unit of the college. Exceptions would be pages that provide documentation or instructions for resources that straddle administrative units of the college (and that are probably managed by ITS administrators.)
Legacy Organization
The wiki was originally brought to Canisius for use in ITS and many spaces remain from it's original configuration from ITS. These are being phased out or combined over time.
In a few key areas, such as Human Resources, spaces may remain separate from their divisional spaces, because these offices require extensive trees of pages that for management purposes, merit their own space.If you maintain multiple pages in the Canisius Wiki, you need to add a navigation scheme so users can find and move between your pages. There's two basic ways to do this:
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Both are discussed in this video, and in the step-by-step tutorials below
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00:00 Do Not Rely on the SideBar Menu 01:21 Children Display Macro 03:49 Adding Internal Links Manually 06:38 Add "Back" Links to Wiki Pages |
Children Display Macro
This gadget lists any child pages of the pages on which it is posted. It is useful for the home page for each space, as well as parent pages for offices.
Two great things about this macro:
- It updates automatically. If I create another page, it appears in the Macro’s published list without my intervention.
- It only shows pages as clickable links if the particular visitor has permission to see that child page. So if a page is only visible to my team, other visitors won’t see it in the list generated by this macro.
Add the Children Display Macro to the parent page for your office or department to list any child pages you have associated with that parent page. To do so, on your parent page, click Edit to open the editor. Place your cursor where you want the macro to operate. Type an open curley brace: { Once you do, confluence will open a code editor:
Just after the curley brace, type in Children Display. Confluence will make this available on the list (before you finish typing, probably.) Press Enter or click it on the menu. Once it's installed, it will look like this in your editor:
Now it's ready to operate. You can click on it to edit it, but by default it will list your child pages. Simply click the blue Update button in the lower right, to publish your page. On the published page, you should see that the macro box is replaced with a list of your child pages.
Manually Created Links
To add a link to a Confluence page, click Edit to open that page's editor. Then, click the chain-link or "Insert Link" icon on the toolbar. In the resulting dialog, you can choose Recently Viewed to see choose pages you were just on, or can click Search to search by the page's title. Once you choose a page, Confluence will set up the link. Click the blue Insert button in the lower right to add the link.
