Hi List,
this is my first posting into this mailinglist, so please excuse me if I am doing sth wrong. I am maintaining an company-wide, internaly used mediawiki installation (Version 1.12). Now, the users of this list have asked me how to link into localy saved documents, stored on a server-system. I know, this is not the normal way of doing things, but my colleagues asked me to do so as they don't want to turn the documents into html or anything, just linking them so they open (Rules for Firefox / Internet Explorer apply). Additionaly I can't force them into typing wiki-code itself, so we're using the TinyMCE Plugin to edit content.
Problem: all the links to be made will contain "space" characters, so a path will look like this: file:\srv1\Resources & Databases\WIKI development\used*.odt. There is no way to replace the backspace characters on the server itself...
I tried the extensions I found on this topic, (for example http://www.easy-coding.de/mediawiki-filelinkextension-t1475.html), but they did not work.
Are there any other extensions recommended, any hints? Otherwise I am stuck in this mediawiki project unfortunatly.
Kind Regards, Michael
Backspace characters?
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Problem: all the links to be made will contain "space" characters, so a
path will look like this: file:\srv1\Resources & Databases\WIKI development\used*.odt. There is no way to replace the backspace characters on the server itself...
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 13:48:31 Michael Lindner - dii wrote:
Problem: all the links to be made will contain "space" characters, so a path will look like this: file:\srv1\Resources & Databases\WIKI development\used*.odt. There is no way to replace the backspace characters on the server itself...
Two things I'd suggest, from our experience. One - train them to use underscores instead of spaces, if at all possible. Two - ban the use of the ampersand on pain of death. It's not much harder to type 'and' and I'll guarantee that you will have less page-finding problems.
Anne
Hi,
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 13:48:31 Michael Lindner - dii wrote:
Problem: all the links to be made will contain "space" characters, so a path will look like this: file:\srv1\Resources & Databases\WIKI development\used*.odt. There is no way to replace the backspace characters on the server itself...
Two things I'd suggest, from our experience. One - train them to use underscores instead of spaces, if at all possible. Two - ban the use of the ampersand on pain of death. It's not much harder to type 'and' and I'll guarantee that you will have less page-finding problems.
Thank you for the answers so far. I am about to train the staff to do so, nevertheless I still will have the problem with the old files which can't and will not be changed for several reasons.
So, is there a plugin to be used or - otherwise - a developer which could help me out of this?
Thanks for your help. Kind Regards,
Michael
Hi Michael,
Am 01.07.2010 10:23 schrieb Michael Lindner - dii:
So, is there a plugin to be used or - otherwise - a developer which could help me out of this?
Have you looked at the FileLink-Extension?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileLink and http://assela.pathirana.net/FileLinkExtension
It's a bit tricky, be sure to read the discussion pages as well.
Also, you need a Firefox-Extension to allow using filelinks from the browser: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/281/
Good luck! Katharina
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