How to create a knowledge base?

Enter your TeamLab portal and click the Community link at the center.

In case you have already logged in to the portal and been using it for some time click the Community link at the top of the page.

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Switch to the Wiki tab. You will be presented with the Home Wiki page where you will find some useful tips about Wiki Navigation and Structure.

Go to the Actions panel and click the Create new page link.

The New Page form will open. Enter a page title and type in your text.

Note: if you have an html-formatted text that you would like to transfer to wiki, paste your text into the text field and switch to the wiki markup mode by clicking the Wikitext icon on the formatting toolbar above. The html tags will be changed to wiki markup.

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Formatting the wiki page is very simple. The Formatting Toolbar above the Text field provides many of most common formatting commands:

• add headings using the H1/H2/H3/H4 buttons;
• apply one of the font styles: Bold, Italic, Underline and Strike;
• subscript and superscript some characters;
• insert links to internal or external resources;
• add different images;
• insert local file link;
• add horizontal lines.

If you are not familiar with the wiki structure and markup you can make use of the common Text Editor. To activate it click the Wikitext button on the Formatting Toolbar.

To preview the result click the Preview button below the Text field.

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To add a table of contents to your wiki page, divide your text into sections, subsections and sub-subsections adding the appropriate headings. To do that, highlight the necessary phrase with the mouse and click the corresponding button on the Formatting Toolbar: H1, H2, H3 or H4.

You can also do it manually using the = symbols:
H1 - =Section=
H2 - ==Subsection==
H3 - ===Sub-subsection===
H4 - ====Sub-sub-subsection====

Then insert @@TOC@@ in the page at the point where you want your table of contents to be added.

If you use the common Text Editor, first use the Format drop-down list to divide your text into sections and then click the Table of Contents button.

The table of contents will be generated automatically on the basis of the marked sections.

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First of all load the images you wish to insert into the page to the TeamLab Wiki. Click the Files link on the Navigation panel, then use the Upload File link on the Actions panel. Browse your hard disk drive for the necessary images and click the Upload button. The image will be loaded and displayed on the Files page.

Note: do NOT forget to save your page using the Publish button before clicking the Files link.

To insert the loaded image into your page, first of all open your wiki page (all the newly created pages are listed on the New Pages page) and click the Edit link at the bottom of the page to resume the editing. Then place the mouse cursor at the point where you want the image to be inserted and click the Image button on the Formatting Toolbar.

The following line will be added to the page:

[[Image:Image Title]]

Indicate the file name including its extension instead of Image Title. If necessary, set its width (in pixels) typing it after the | symbol.

If you use the common Text Editor:

• Place the mouse cursor at the point where you want the image to be inserted.
• Click the Insert/Edit Image button to open the Image Properties window.
• Click the Upload button next to the Image file name field.
• Browse your hard disk drive for the necessary image.
• Select the Special Type from the corresponding drop-down list, if necessary. The available types are: Frame and Thumbnail.
• Align your image to the right, left, or center selecting the corresponding option from the Align drop-down list.
• Set the image Width. The height will be set respectively conserving the origin aspect ratio.
• When everything is ready, click the OK button to apply the selected parameters.

The image will be inserted at the point where the mouse cursor is placed.

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To insert the link to another wiki page, place the mouse cursor at the point where you want the link to be inserted and click the Page Link button.

The following structure will be added to the page:

[[PageName | Page Description]]

Indicate the wiki page name you wish to make reference to instead of PageName and the title instead of Page Description which will be displayed on the page.

In case you need to add the link to some external resources click the External Link button and type in the page URL and the title which will be displayed on the page, like this [[http://teamlab.com | TeamLab web site]].

It's also possible to insert the link using the common Text Editor. To do that highlight a single word or a word combination you wish to add a link to and click the Insert/Edit Link button.

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You may attach each wiki page you create to an existing category or create a new one and assign your page to it.

To attach a page to an existing category, add the following line at the end of your page:

[[Category: Desired category]]

Indicate the necessary category name instead of Desired category.

If you write a name that does not coincide with any of the existing categories, a new category with a such name will be automatically created and the page will be assigned to it.

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When everything is ready, preview the result clicking the corresponding button below the Text field. If you are satisfied with the result close the preview area and click the Publish button to add the newly created page.

The page is created. You can find it using the links on the Navigation panel.

For more detailed information about the wiki structure and markup refer to the Help page of the TeamLab Wiki on the portal.

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