User talk:Tony.Griffith

Procedure for Adding Content

(This is a work in progress)..

General Procedural Rules

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

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

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

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

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Breaking Out Sections into Smaller Articles

Edit the Section you want to break out.

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 position the

 <onlyinclude> and </onlyinclude>

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, then below the Section heading type:

 {{Breakout|SectionHeadingName}}   (or you can use any name you like in fact.)

This uses the template called Breakout, which will provide the link to the article name you entered and include article text between the onlyinclude tags.

Preview the page. You should now see below the section heading a piece of text brought in from the article you referred to, and below that, saying:

For full details refer to this page: followed by a link to the article page you typed in.

Next, click on this link, create the page then go straight to wikitext from FCK 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.

Assembling a High Level Overview Page

The Breakout Template (described above) can be used in a reverse manner to that given above, to assemble high-level overview article pages from a number of separate page articles (existing or otherwise).

Make a list of the Separate Pages you want to bring together in this overview.

Create the ArticlePage you wish to become a collection of high level overviews.

Add a Section Heading

Below the Section heading type:

 {{Breakout|Name of Article you want to link to}}

This uses the template called Breakout, which will provide the link to the article name you entered 'and include either the entire article text, or the text between onlyinclude tags.

Preview the page.

You should now see below the section heading a piece of text brought in from the article you referred to, and below that, saying:

For full details refer to this page: followed by a link to the article page you typed in.

(If you want to add a link to a page you are yet to create, you can type anything you like instead of the existing article title.)

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

Rather than one by one, you may wish to add a listing of Articles to your overview page in another way:

e.g.

<DPL>
 
category=Item 

notnamespace=Category 

notcategory=FAQ 

ordermethod=pagetouched 

order=descending 

 
</DPL> 

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"