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Concerned that TikiWiki wasn't the right choice - help please

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I set up a tikiwiki site for product support in 2008 and had some of the same issues. It has been 3+ years since I have done anything with TikiWiki and I'm having a tough time with it.

The most attractive thing to TikiWiki for me is how it natively handles groups - I don't think another application allows for this (I'm a wordpress "expert" and have set up several mediawiki sites).

But my main problem is with menus. I just can't get the menus and pages to work right and the documentation is so out of date.

Even trying to duplicate the "Application Menu" and deconstruct it doesn't help because logged in as admin, I can't even see that menu anywhere except for in the editor.

Other questions I have...
- I switched to the WYSIWYG editor... not sure if I am missing anything with it.
- Is there a difference between "pages" and "wiki pages"?
- In Menus, I can use the page name "Page+Name" or the wiki syntax ))Page+Name(( - is there a difference?
- trying to make a menu with several pop out levels but it isn't going how I expected it would

I really want to use TikiWiki and make it work, but right now am very frustrated with it. Is there any documentation that is up to date?

Thanks,
Jeff

posts: 19
To clarify... I set up and used a site in 2008 and that site is no longer used. I set up a site with the latest version 2 weeks ago and am having to "relearn" a lot right now.

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Hi Jeff:

But my main problem is with menus. I just can't get the menus and pages to work right and the documentation is so out of date.

Even trying to duplicate the "Application Menu" and deconstruct it doesn't help because logged in as admin, I can't even see that menu anywhere except for in the editor.


Menus:

https://doc.tiki.org/Menus

(and yes, sorry, if this is outdated, even the basic behavior didn't change much, just removed phplayermenus and added css menus in the last versions, as far as I know)

Check also (probably more updated) tiki for smarties:


Other questions I have...
- I switched to the WYSIWYG editor... not sure if I am missing anything with it.

No idea.

- Is there a difference between "pages" and "wiki pages"?

probably not. html pages in the past were called "pages", but I don't know if this still applies in Tiki 8x or 9.x

- In Menus, I can use the page name "Page+Name" or the wiki syntax ))Page+Name(( - is there a difference?

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((Page Name)) is the same as [Page Name] (if rewrite rules are enabled)

- trying to make a menu with several pop out levels but it isn't going how I expected it would

css menus?

Cheers


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