User talk:Tony.Griffith

Notes recorded during updating and new content addition

Suggestions to simplify working with Track Networks

1. Set up the Track _ModelObject column options to enable renaming of the Track's object label.
   The only Track Section identification name that the modeller or user works with is this one.
2. Change the Menu Option "Section Colours" to "Track Colours"

How I am adding content

(This is a work in progress)..

Make a new page that contains all the overall text and the details, separated by headings.

Then break out individual Sections into pages of their own, leaving a reference in the original page.

How this could be done:

Edit the Section you want to move.

Go straight to WikiText(because stoopid FCK doesn't know how to copy text etc)

Decide which text from this section should be included as a little intro to lead into the article page you are about to create, and place the

 <includeonly> and </includeonly>

tags above and below it.

Now select ALL the text, and copy to the clipboard (for use in the new page).

Select all text below the Section heading, delete it, and in its place, type

 {{Breakout|SectionHeadingText or whatever you like}}

(This uses the template called Breakout, which will include the text you chose, and provide the link to the article name you are about to create section.)

Then save the page, which should now have below the section heading, a piece of text saying:

For full details refer to this page: followed by a link to a page that does not yet exist.

Next, click on this link, create the page then go to wikitext and paste in the text from your clipboard.

Set any categories you want to apply, save the page and return to the original page to check if it all works, and that the included text is suitable.

-- need to provide a convenient means of back-referencing

Earlier Process Notes

(May require revisions)

Process and Methodology

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DON'T edit the MAIN PAGE

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DON'T turn section headings into links.

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Create a "source" Article

Then call it into a (new or existing) "summary" article.

using the following technique.

e.g.

 

==Agents==

{{main|Agent}}

{{:Agent}} 

will pull the entire article,

For a summary only, set up a limit on included text in the Main article, as follows:

e.g

<onlyinclude>

Agents are a special type of  [[Item]]  that interacts with some objects in a different way to standard items. Agents play a role as transporter of other items. An agent can pick-up one or more items at a location, and then move them to another location and drop them in the new location. 

 
</onlyinclude> 
 

To edit a section of a page, click on the Edit link to the right of the Section Heading.

To edit an entire page, click on the Edit link at the bottom of the page (in the grey bar).

How to add a list of articles from same category (or other categories) and make specific exclusions, inclusions etc.

e.g.

<DPL>
 
category=Item 

notnamespace=Category 

notcategory=FAQ 

ordermethod=pagetouched 

order=descending 

 
</DPL>