Alfresco Share Wiki Editor

[jonathanschultz]

I have searched the forums and not found a definitive answer to my question.  Apologies if this is a repeated question.

How would one change the way that the Wiki Editor in Alfresco Share handles input. 

I am noticing, for instance, that bold simply does not work, external links kind of work - the anchor end tags seem to end at the document, and not the end of the selected text resulting in everything from the external link to the end of the document becoming a link - maybe 30% of the time.  When I look at the html added to the wiki entries in an external editor it does not seem sensible for the simple formatting I am trying employ.  What would be ideal is allowing the editor to edit both text and tags, rather than *trying* and mostly failing at guessing what format is to be applied.  Is there a way to use the editor in a code view instead of a WYSIWYG mode.

Hopefully the above makes sense.

Cheers,

Jonathan Schultz

[timsiddle]

I have to concur with this. I'm evaluating the share application for us in our organisation [~600 staff]. I am looking to create multiple sites but right now I don't think the share application is mature enough to put to my users. Whilst the wiki editing may be simple, it is also very frustrating. If you paste text from alternative locations, it just doesn't work. You can format something perfectly within the editor but when you save the page, it's completely different.

Also, for example, if I paste a block of text in and then try writing some text afterwards, then try formatting the text I've written by selecting it, it insists on formatting the pasted text also.

It is extremely important that users can trust an application to do what they wish - if this faith is lost they may very well never return to it.

I do wonder why Alfresco hasn't just built the wiki functionality in Share on top of a superior wiki application such as MediaWiki. The same could be said for the blog functionality. Is there really a need to reinvent the wheel as such?

Some other things I'd like to see - linking across applications with share - i.e. blog linking to wiki page, vice versa… blog/wiki linking to documents..

I hope someone can provide me with some feedback on this..

[norgan]

Hi there,
to add another question: Why not provide these in Alfresco Explorer as well. Especially the calenda would be good to have there.

But to give answer in parts: We integrate Alfresco with liveray and use the collaboration & community functions of liveray and the document / explorer functions of alfresco.

Norgan