How to use the Navigator theme
After installing the Navigator theme in your DokuWiki,
select Navigator from the Admin Configuration Settings.
Then, if you don't yet have any topics,
create a few and their respective start page by writing topicname:start.
Next, create a few subpages for each topic: topicname:page1, etc.
One way to create a topic is as follows:
- In your URL window, after the question mark,
add a new topic by writing id= following by the topic name, a colon :
followed by the word start.
?id=about:start
In the example above, “about” is the topic name,
and “start” is the root page for the topic.
A page named 'start' is necessary if you want your topic to show in the dropdown Topics list.
- When you hit Enter, you will see a message stating that
the page does not exist because nothing has been written to it yet.
- Using your “Create this page” button, create the page.
You must create it otherwise the DokuWiki engine will delete it.
- Now, whether you write anything in it or not,
include the following symbol so that Navigator can post
a list of all existing pages for that topic.
The list wil be creatd as soon as there are pages to show.
~~AUTOINDEX~~
- The above mark serves two purposes:
It prevents the page from being deleted if it is empty,
and it tells Navigator to create an automatic list for existing topic pages.
We need that start page to stay valid
so that it keep a list of the topic pages.
- When you save the page, it will look empty but it remains valid for automatic topic indexing of its pages.
However, if after you save your start page you still see the following mark in there.
~~AUTOINDEX~~
It means that you haven't installed the plugin that comes with Navigator. This plugin will hide the marker from public view.
The plugin installs automatically when you install the Navigator theme via the Extension manager.
For manually installation, if you have access to your folders at server level, use the following guidelies: