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Special Link Commands

Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:56 -0400

Keywords: Site:Nexi Help Node Editing Linking
= More Notes

* ''{nav{keywords}}'' builds a navigator link
* ''{rss{keywords}}'' builds an rss feed for NEW pages matching
* ''{rssmod{keywords}}'' builds an rss feed for MODIFIED pages matching
* ''{searchform{keywords}}'' displays a small full text search form that will launch the navigator with the given keys.

*More Help Needed Here*

Linking to Other Sites

Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:16 -0400

Keywords: Site:Nexi Help Node Editing Linking
= Off-Site Links

Links to other sites are as simple as links to pages on AllAbout. Place the full URL between a single set of square brackets. To add a title to the link, add a vertical bar, then type the title.

Here are some examples:


* [http://gmail.com]
* [ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/]
* [http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/on-82_metric_e.html|Kitchener-Waterloo Weather]

* [http://gmail.com]
* [ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/]
* [http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/on-82_metric_e.html|Kitchener-Waterloo Weather]

== Even Easier

If you don't mind the link liiking like a link, you can just type it into your text and if it looks like a link, it will be converted into one.


* www.allabout.com
* ftp://ftp.example.com/pub
* http://goober.com
* frogs.com

* www.allabout.com
* ftp://ftp.example.com/pub
* http://goober.com
* frogs.com

Linking to Other Pages

Tue, 10 May 2005 17:21:05 -0400

Keywords: Site:Nexi Help Node Editing Linking
There are four ways to link to other pages on Nexi.

= The Title Link

You can link to another page by its title. Place the title, or the first few words of the title, between single curly braces like this ''{Page Title}''.

Since there may be more than one page that matches, Tags are compared between the current page and all potential links. The page with the most Tags in common are chosen. If more than one page has the same number of matching Tags, they are all shown in a comma separated list.

If you want to be sure that you are linking to a certain kind of page with a title link, you can provide "hints" in the form of Tags. Hint Tags must be found in the destination pages or they don't qualify, even if their titles match. Hints are just a list of Tags, followed by a colon, like this: ''{Tag1 Tag2: Page Title}''.

If no pages at all match, a link will appear instead which will add a new page when clicked on. The page is given the title you specified in the link. The page will also have default Tags: The Tags of the original page, plus any hint Tags. You should remove any Tags that are incorrect before saving the page.


* {Help and information}
* {Lyric: If I Were}
* {This should create a new page, because it won't match anything.}

* {Help and information}
* {Lyric: If I Were}
* {This should create a new page, because it won't match anything.}

*Title links are not reliable -- if the page they link to is renamed, the link will break.*

= The Direct Link

If you want to go to a certain page, and only that page, you can use a direct link. They look like this: ''[''*''page number''*'']''. (Those are square brackets.) For *page number*, enter the page number shown on the upper right corner of the page. (This page is page 54.)


Page linking is explained here: [83].

Page linking is explained here: [83].

Notice how the title of the page is pulled into the link automatically.

= The Tag Link

If you don't know (or don't care, which is more likely) what the page number is, you can link to a page just by specifying Tags used on that page. Like the direct link, you enclose the link information in square brackets. Just put the Tags you want to match between the brackets, like this ''[[TagA TagB TagC]]''.


My list of things to accomplish: [[AllAbout:Bugs ToDo]].

My list of things to accomplish: [[AllAbout:Bugs ToDo]].

If more than one page matches the Tags you give, then all of those pages will appear, separated by commas. This works well when there are only a few similar items.


Learn more about who is responsible for this site: [[AllAbout:Help Credits]].

Learn more about who is responsible for this site: [[AllAbout:Help Credits]].

= The Add-A-Page Link

If you use curly braces instead of square braces around your Tags, you get three special enhancements to the Tag link.
- The links appear as a list, one per line.
- You get a nice header above the list.
- An "add-a-page" plus sign appears in the list header. If you click on the plus sign, you'll be prompted to add a new page. This page will start up with the Tags given for the list.

Here's what it looks like:


{{Nexi:Bugs Bug}}

{{Nexi:Bugs Bug}}

= Note 1 - Link Targets will be Created Automatically

When using title links, Tag links and add-a-page links, **matching pages do not have to exist.** In these cases, you are prompted to add a page when clicking on a Tag link that has no matching pages.

This makes building new content very easy. Just describe what the link should look like, then click on it.


[[Nexi:Test FakePage]]

{{Nexi:Test Sandbox}}

[[Nexi:Test FakePage]]
{{Nexi:Test Sandbox}}

This doesn't work for direct page links, of course. A page must exist to have a number.

= Note 2 - Link Titles

To add a title to your link, place a vertical bar | after the Tags, then type in your title. Finish the link with a closing bracket or brace as usual.

With a direct link, the title will override the title of the page. This is handy if you want to use the link in the middle of a sentence and don't want the page title (which can be easily changed) to wreak havok on your writing.

With a Tag link, the title is used only when the target page(s) do not exist. If you click on one of these links, the title will be filled in for you. (Makes creating new pages very simple -- you can pre-create both their Tags and their title just by creating a link to that page).

With a add-a-page list, the title you give will always appear as the list header. It will also appear as the title of a new page.

Here are some examples:


It's [54|easy] to link to other pages.

[[Nexi:Test FakePage|This shouldn't lead to a new page, but it might, if someone clicks on it.]]

{{Nexi:Test Sandbox|Click here to add your own sandbox page!}}

It's [54|easy] to link to other pages.

[[Nexi:Test FakePage|This shouldn't lead to a new page, but it might, if someone clicks on it.]]
{{Nexi:Test Sandbox|Click here to add your own sandbox page!}}

Adding New Pages

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Keywords: Site:Nexi Help Node Editing Linking
Editing pages is easy. You click "Edit" and there you go. How do you add a new page?

= How do I add a new page or set of pages?
*"That depends on where that page should go."*

Not a very helpful answer in that it doesn't really answer the question but instead asks another, because how you go about adding a page does depend on where that page appears on the site.

Here's the thing: Where a page appears doesn't depend on its page number or on its page title. The only thing that determines where a page appears is its tags. Tags are everything.

== "I don't want to think about that, I want to start typing."
Click **Attach New Page**, which appears in the command bar at the *bottom* of every page. This gets you to an editor quickly so you can capture whatever idea is burning in your mind.

=== Where the page winds up
Linked to the bottom of the page you started from. Why? Its tags are ''My AttachedTo''. When a page has a page number and ''AttachedTo'' as tags, a link to that page will appear at the bottom of the page with the given page number.

Once the page is saved and you are less uptight about writing content, you can adjust its tags so it shows up where it belongs.

Or, maybe that IS where it belongs. Maybe you just want to create a simple site with pages that are attached to each other and to nothing else. That's cool.

== "I want to make a page similar to the one I'm looking at."
Click **Add Sibling Page** in the command bar. The editor opens on a new page with *the exact same tags* as the page you were viewing.

=== Where the page winds up
Since the page has exactly the same tags as the page you started at, it appears in all of the same lists.

== "I want to make a new list of pages."
Go to a page that the list should appear on. Click the **Edit** tab. Find where the list should go, then create a *List Link*. They look like this:

''{{Keyword1 Keyword2 Keyword3}}''

Where ''Keyword1'' and so on are a set of tags unique to this list. When you save, the list will appear as a header line with a + appearing after it. Click the + to start adding pages with these tags.

=== Where the pages wind up
All of the new pages are attached to the original page -- the one with the list link on it. They can also appear on other pages, if those pages have lists with matching tags.