Status

This feature is available in the Jay Cooke (8.5) release of Deki Wiki.

Introduction

In previous versions of Deki Wiki, changing the title inside the editor would perform a move operation. This posed three problems: it was impossible to decouple the path title from the display title; it did not allow for title casing edits (changing "IPOD" to "iPod"); and executing a page move operation (and creating redirects) was confusing to end-users. Going forward, Deki Wiki decouples the display title as displayed in the editor with the path title.

Nomenclature

Display title refers to the user-displayed title; path title refers to the URL. This screenshot should help clarify:

title-1.png

Functionality Overview

On a new page creation, the behavior remains unchanged from previous versions of Deki Wiki - the initial title put in the editor determines the path title. For example, if we created a page "De", the path would be /De:

title-2.png

However, in this case, the page title may need to be localized in a specific language. In this case, we'd load the editor and change the title accordingly and save:

title-3.png

Notice that any place where the title is displayed, the display title is visible: (the breadcrumbs, the page title, and the nav pane)

title-4.png

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This works as described. But what happens when I want to change the Path Title? Now if I change the page display title, the path remans unchanged and that is fine in some circumstances, but not in all. I had a coworker change the title of a page named "research" to "introduction" and wanted the URL to be related to the page title. I could not find a way to do so, except edit the page_title field in the pages table of the database. Maybe the field should be visible on the page when I edit it. BTW, I'm using the FCKeditor, but I do not think that should matter in this case.

Update: I found the answer about moving pages in the forum and makes sense once I did it. This information should have probably been spelled out a more clearly in the documentation above. edited 13:21, 13 Jun 2008
Posted 16:40, 8 May 2008

You can name a page whatever you want and that will be the Display Title. To reorder the page you would click on move (More-> Move) and you would name the page so that it will reorder.

Example:

you have pages:

A
B
C

You rename C to AA so it is now listed as:

A
B
AA

To move AA above B you would click More-> Move and change the path of the page to AA which will then list the pages as:

A
AA
B
Posted 20:45, 28 May 2008
This does not seem to work anymore. At least not for me on wiki.is
Posted 22:32, 12 Jun 2008
Wik.is is still running 1.9.0b. We will be upgrading Wik.is to 8.05.1 at the end of June
Posted 23:39, 12 Jun 2008
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