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The Confluence Home Page
You may have arrived at this site through a link someone sent you. Or, you may have come through Confluence's Home Page by typing "wiki.canisius.edu." Either way, you can go (back) to the Confluence Home Page by clicking "Confluence at Canisius College " Wiki in the blue bar above, lefthand side. The Confluence Home Page shows you all spaces are available to you in Confluence.
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Confluence creators, who manage one or more pages for an office or department, might control only one page , or might have multiple pages arranged in a parent-child relationship.
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The Confluence Home or Landing Page
At wiki.canisius.edu, you'll find a home or landing page for the entire Canisius wiki. Here, visitors can see three major navigation methods in the wiki.
On the lefthand side are two navigation options that are currently under construction and only partially complete. 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 College organization Divisions of the College, or College Organization navigation tree simply follows the organization of the college and in most cases, that of wiki spaces. Here, the division The Divisions links go directly to spaces for each of the five divisions. ThereWithin 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 provide a faster track Resources link set provides a way for visitors to reach things most relevant to them, faster. 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.)
On the righthand side is a Space list. This is an older navigation method that will be phased out as the lefthand navigation options are completed.
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If you manage multiple pages within the wiki, you should provide navigation on your pages so that users can find your other pages. For example, on your highest-level parent page, you can provide links to navigate to your child pages. In this guide, you will discover how to have an automated gadget called a macro manage that for you. You can also learn how to headings heading styles and a table of contents macro provide easy, automated navigation for visitors on your pages (, as is done on this page you are reading now. (Skip ahead to read about Navigation options.)
If you are using a desktop or laptop computer, or some mobile devices, you may see a collapsible lefthand menu that also contains page navigation within a space. This will work if you see it but many mobile devices do not display it. So if you manage wiki content you need to provide navigation for your users within your pages. If you do not, mobile users will likely tell you they cannot find content you told them was in the wiki.
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The wiki has a search feature (in the upper right of any screen) that frequently returns helpful results. However, the wiki is a continuous work in progress, so page titles, especially on older pages, can often be non-descriptive and unhelpful when searching. So please be patient; search results should improve over time.
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