Creating a New Page and Hierarchy

1. Creating a New Page and Hierarchy
1. 1.1. Creating Sub-pages
2. 1.2. Reordering the Hierarchy/Display Titles

Creating a New Page and Hierarchy

To start adding content to MindTouch, we need to add pages. To get started, click on a page in the navigation column that you want to add a subpage to. If you are on the homepage of MindTouch and there are no pages under it, this will be the start of the MindTouch hierarchy. Click on the New Page button (which looks like this):

This will create a new page called Page Title. Change the name as desired, and add content to the page like this:

Once you have added content to the page. click Save and the name of the page will be updated in the hierarchy. It looks like this:

Note that the Page name and the name in the Hierarchy are the same. You can continue to add more pages to the hierarchy and create spaces for topics, departments, and more. Please note, when you click the New Page button it will add a subpage to the page that you are currently on. If you want to create a first level hierarchy, you'll want to click on the Home Page before adding a new page.

Creating Sub-pages

Let's assume you were viewing a page titled "Accounting" and you decide to add a new sub-page. First create your main page titled "Accounting” and click save. When on "Accounting” click "New page", this will then create a sub-page, also known as a child page.

A sub-page makes it easy to organize information in a logical manner

Reordering the Hierarchy/Display Titles

MindTouch automatically orders newly created pages in alpha-numeric order according to the URL. You have the ability to override the name of the page and how it appears in the hierarchy to be different from the URL after you save the page for the first time. This gives flexibility to organize the hierarchy according to the URL while maintaining user facing friendly titles. To reorder a hierarchy do the following:
If your hierarchy is as follows:

Home
- Apples are good
- Bananas are the best
- Carrots are OK

Now if you want to reorder you would move the page by clicking More -> Move and then in the Title field in the Move dialog you would give the page a title that would place it below "Bananas are the best" at the top. For example "Bananas are the best" -> "1Bananas are the best" This will change the URL and the Title of the page. After you move the page then you would edit the page and rename the title to Bananas are the best. This will then show the page higher in the hierarchy as follows:

Home
- Bananas are the best
- Apples are good
- Carrots are OK

The URL for Bananas are the best is now http://yourwiki/1Bananas_are_the_best but, it is displayed as "Bananas are the best" for the page title and in the hierarchy.

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Alma Toth says:

i am totally confused

Posted 19:09, 16 Aug 2010

terrance.rone says:

i'm lost

Posted 04:48, 16 Sep 2010

terrance.rone says:

it does not make sense to me. i can not add anything. my new page button does not work

Posted 05:08, 16 Sep 2010

TimSloane says:

I was also lost reading this, finally figured it out on my own. But now I need to determine how I create a landscape page and am lost trying to determine if this is a Template, HTML, or CSS issue. I think a large part of my confusion may arise because Mindtouch "leverages HTML" but does not directly "render HTML??" That is, HTML must be entered on the page within some form of DekiScript or with some other escape function that tells MindTouch that what follows should be interpreted as HTML. But I can't find any concise info on how MindTouch parses a page.

But I'll keep banging my head against the wall until I find it!

Posted 08:45, 1 Feb 2011

Alison B says:

When reordering pages within the hierarchy it would be useful to add the extra step required. It took me a few goes to use the button at the end of the title box to ensure the page remained to the new position I'd placed it after changing the title back to what I wnated it to be

Posted 02:34, 17 Feb 2012

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