Insert Dialog

Inserting a Link

If you want to insert a link in your MindTouch page, select the text that you want to link to, and then click the Link button. This will bring up the Link dialog, which opens in Search Mode; this looks within the wiki to see if there are any pages that are related to the text that you highlighted. As you can see in the following screen, it found one page called MindTouch.com that can be linked to. If you want to link to this, simply click the Update Link button and the link will be added.

If you want to link to the website http://www.mindtouch.com, put that in the Link to: field and then click the Update Link. This is demonstrated in the screen below:

If the page isn't listed in the matches and isn't an external link, then you'll have to navigate the entire wiki to find the page/file that you want to link to. You can do this by clicking the Browse tab and navigating through the wiki as seen in the following screen shot:

Note the Navigation on the Left hand side of the screen. These icons are as follows:

1. This goes up one level from where you are at right now
2. This returns to the top of the hierarchy
3. This goes to the Home Page which offers you 3 areas you can drill into: a) The MindTouch Hierarchy b) User Pages c) Templates
4. This goes to the logged in user's user page

If the page that you have selected looks good, it will show what you are linking to in the Link to: space above the navigation window. You can click Update Link and the Link will be inserted in the MindTouch page.

Insert Image

If you want to insert an image into a MindTouch page, put your cursor where you want to insert the image on the page, and click the Image icon. This will open the image dialog in Browse mode which allows you to navigate through MindTouch's hierarchy and locate images to insert as seen in the following Screen shot.

You can navigate through MindTouch to find images to add to the page. Note the Navigation on the Left hand side of the screen. These icons are as follows:

1. This goes up one level from where you are at right now
2. This returns to the top of the hierarchy
3. This goes to the Home Page which offers you 3 areas you can drill into: a) The MindTouch Hierarchy b) User Pages c) Templates
4. This goes to the logged in user's user page

Once you've found the image that you want to insert into the page, select it. It will then show a thumbnail in the preview window on the right. You can then specify the image size and alignment of the image. When your image is ready, click Insert image and it will be inserted into your MindTouch page.

If you want to search MindTouch for an image, or insert an image that is externally hosted, click on the Search tab. Type the keyword you are searching for or the URI of the image you want to insert (as can be seen in the following screenshot):

Once you put the URI for the image in the Link to: field, you can specify the alignment and then click Insert image.

Insert Extension

Position your cursor on the page where you want to insert the Extension, and click the Extensions Button in the Editor. This will then load the Extension Dialog as seen below:

From here you can navigate through the available extensions and insert the desired extension. The Built-in selection includes functionality that is native to MindTouch including Table of Contents, DekiScript, and more. For more information on how to insert Specific Extensions, take a look at the Extension Documentation

Insert Media

To insert Media like a video or music, first position your cursor in the page where you want the media to be embedded and then click the Media button which looks like a film strip. This will open up the following dialog which allows you to point to a url and supports video and audio including WMV, MOV, YouTube, MP3, and more.

The media can exist on MindTouch too, so you can attach a movie or audio file and then embed it in the page. Once you have the URL of the media you want to embed, add it to the URL of media file and then click insert media. After clicking insert media, a Dekiscript line of Code will be added to the page where your cursor is and will look like this:

{{media("http://www.mindtouch.com/mymovie.wmv")}}

Insert Template

To insert a Template onto a page, position the cursor on the page where you want the template to be inserted and  click the Template button. This will bring up the Insert Template Dialog, which shows all of the Templates available to you. If you want to add a new Template, take a look at our Template Section.

Select the Template that you want to use from the Drop Down and then click the insert template button. This will insert the Template where the cursor was positioned.

Insert Table

To insert a table into a MindTouch page, position your cursor where you would like to insert the table and then click the Table button that is highlighted above. Once you click this, it will open up the following dialog:

Once the dialog opens, you can configure the properties of the table before inserting it into the page.

1. Configure the number of Rows and Columns for the table, you can add more later on if needed by right clicking on the table and adding more. See below for right click dialog.
2. Change the border size for the table, if you set it to 0 then there will be no border
3. You can change the alignment of the table by clicking the dropdown and selecting Left, Right, or Center
4. Width can be expressed by pixels or Percent. if you set it to 100% then it will expand to the full width of the MindTouch page
5. Height can only be expressed in pixels. If left empty it will auto adjust according to the number of rows you have
6. Cell spacing dictates the spacing between cells
7. Cell padding adds spacing inside the cell itself, giving an invisible border
8. Caption will place a heading for the table that will be visible
9. Summary is meta data for the table
10. Once you have everything configured to your liking you can click OK and the table will be inserted

Table mouse dialog

When you right click on a table, you can adjust it further by Adding and Deleting Columns, Rows, and Cells. If you want to edit details about the Table such as width, cell spacing, border size, etc., click on Table Properties.