• Click the [Edit] link. You are now in edit mode and you can see the source of the page. (Go to a different topic like TestTopic3? in case you see a "Topic is locked by an other user" warning.)

20-Minute TWiki

1. Get set:

2. Take a whirlwind tour:

• To browse a TWiki web, just click on any highlighted link. These links are called WikiWords and comprise two or more words with initial capitals, run together.

• You can search each TWiki web. Enter a search string in the WebHome topic or the WebSearch topic accessible from the Search link on each topic. TWiki searches for an exact match; optionally, you can also use RegularExpressions.

3. Open a private account page:

• Go to the TWikiRegistration page to create your TWiki account.

4. Check out TWiki Users, offices and groups:

• Go to the TWikiUsers topic in the TWiki.Main web; it has a list of all users of TWiki. Your WikiName will be in this list after you register.
• Go to the OfficeLocations? topic in the TWiki.Main web; it has a list of corporate offices already entered into TWiki.
• Go to the TWikiGroups topic in the TWiki.Main web; it has a list of groups which can be used to define fine grained TWikiAccessControl in TWiki.

5. Test the page controls:

• Edit - add to or edit the topic (discussed later)
• Ref-By - find out what other topics link to this topic (reverse link)
• Attach - attach files to a topic (discussed later)
• Diffs - topics are under revision control. Diffs shows you the complete change history of the topic, e.g. who changed what and when.
• r1.3 | > | r1.2 | > | r1.1 - view a previous version of the topic or the difference between two revisions
• More - additional controls, like Rename/move, version control and setting the topic parent.

6. Change a page and create a new one:

• Press the Edit link. You are now in edit mode and you can see the source of the page. (Go to a different topic like TestTopic3? in case you see a "Topic is locked by an other user" warning.)

• Now, create a new topic, your own test page:
  1. In edit mode, enter a new text with a WikiWord, i.e.
     This is PaulsSandBox topic.
  2. Preview and save the topic. You can see a linked question mark after the topic name. This means that the topic does not exist yet.
  3. Click on the question mark. Now you are in edit mode of the new topic.

1. 1. Preview and save the topic.

• Learn about text formatting. You can enter text in WikiSyntax, a very simple markup language. Follow the WikiSyntax link to see how, then:

1. 1. Enter some text in WikiSyntax: bold text, italic text, bold italic text, a bullet list, tables, paragraphs, etc. Hint: If you need to look up the WikiSyntax, click on the TextFormattingRules link located below the edit field.

7. Upload files as page Attachments:

• Go back to your sandbox topic and click on the Attach link at the bottom.
• Browse for any file you would like to attach; enter an optional comment.
• Upload and attach the file.
• Do this again with a JPG or GIF image file.
• Checkmark the box "Create a link to the attached file at the end of the topic."
• Upload and attach the image file.
• The image will show up at the bottom of the topic. To move the image, you can edit the topic and move the last line (bullet containing %ATTACHURL%) to anywhere you like.
• If you have a GIF or JPG image of yourself, why not upload it now to your personal topic?

8. Get email alerts when topics change:

• WebNotify (one per TWiki web) is a subscription service to be automatically notified by email when topics change in a TWiki web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to come back and check all the time to see if something has changed.
• It is strongly recommended that you subscribe to the TWiki web(s) relevant to your work.

20 Minute TWiki

This step-by-step, hands-on tutorial gets you up to speed with all the TWiki basics in mere minutes...

• Open two browser windows; arrange them so that you can follow these steps in one window, while trying things out in the other.

2. Take a tour around:

• TWiki is divided up into webs; each one represents one area of collaboration. The webs are accessible at the upper right corner of each web page.
• Each web has hyper-linked topics. A topic is one web page in your browser.

• To edit topics, you need to have a TWiki account.

5. Test the Topic controls:

• Go to the WebHome topic to learn what we can do with a topic.
• The bottom of the page has some links:
• Edit : Allows you to edit the topic (discussed later)
• Ref-By : Find out what other topics link to this topic (reverse link)
• Attach : Attach files to a topic (discussed later)
• Diffs : Topics are under revision control. Diffs shows you the complete change history of the topic, e.g. who changed what and when.
• r1.3 | > | r1.2 | > | r1.1 : Allows you to see a previous topic revision or the difference between revisions.
• More : More actions on the topic, like rename/move, version control and setting the topic parent.

• Go to the Test? topic of the TWiki.Test web. This web is the sandbox where you can make changes at will.
• Press the Edit link. You are now in edit mode and you can see the source of the page. (Go to a different topic like TestTopic3? in case you see a "Topic is locked by an other user" warning.)

• Now let's create a new topic, your own sandbox topic:
  • In edit mode, enter a new text with a WikiWord, i.e.
    
  • This is PaulsSandBox topic.
  • Preview and save the topic.
  • You can see a linked question mark after the topic name. This means that the topic does not exist yet.
  • Click on the question mark. Now you are in edit mode of the new topic.
  • Type some text, basically like you write an email.
  • A signature with your name is already entered by default. Note: Please note the Main. in front of your name. This means that you have a link from the current web to your personal topic located in the Main web.
  • Preview and save the topic.
• Learn about text formatting:
  • You write text in WikiSyntax, a very simple markup language. Follow the WikiSyntax link and learn how to write text.
  • Go back to your sandbox topic end edit it.
  • Enter some text in WikiSyntax: bold text, italic text, bold italic text, a bullet list, tables, paragraphs, etc. Hint: If you need to look up the WikiSyntax, click on the TextFormattingRules link located below the edit field.
  • Preview and save the topic.

• You can attach any file to a topic, not unlike attachments to an email.

• It is very important that team members are kept in sync of changes.

• The image will show up at the bottom of the topic. To move the image, you can edit the topic and move the last line (starting with <a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/...) to anywhere you like.