You can create a dedicated wiki page using the Wiki page style.  The wiki page will appear in the portal navigation. When you click the wiki page’s name in the navigation, the content of the wiki page gets displayed. 

You can create a dedicated wiki page using the Wiki page style as either:

• A personal page in the Home portal, selecting Wiki as the page style. See Creating a Personal Page.

• A page in a portal, selecting Wiki as the page style. This is an advanced task, described in Creating a Page or Subpage in an Existing Portal in Building Portals with Oracle WebCenter Portal.

Tip:

The Wiki page style is available only if the Documents tool is enabled for the portal.

Wikis offer in-place editing features through the Rich Text Editor (RTE), described in Using the Rich Text Editor (RTE).

The initial wiki page, containing a default wiki document with default text, looks similar to Figure 16-1.

Figure 16-1 Default Wiki Document Created Using the Wiki Page Style

Description of "Figure 16-1 Default Wiki Document Created Using the Wiki Page Style"

In the wiki document, you can replace the default text with the desired content. For information, see Editing a Wiki.

The breadcrumbs at the top display the path where the wiki document is created in the document hierarchy.

In the Content Manager task flow, you can find the newly created wiki document stored in a separate folder for the wiki page under the root folder, as shown in Figure 16-2. Both the folder and the default wiki document share the same name.

Figure 16-2 Default Wiki Document for a Wiki Page in the Document Hierarchy

Description of "Figure 16-2 Default Wiki Document for a Wiki Page in the Document Hierarchy"

A page based on the Wiki page style contains a default wiki document. Anyone with appropriate permissions on the wiki page can create additional wiki documents. Additional wiki documents are siblings of the default wiki document, and are all stored in the dedicated folder that is automatically created for the wiki page. A wiki document is not displayed in portal navigation, but is listed only in the document hierarchy.

1. Navigate to the wiki page and select the New Wiki Document action (Figure 16-3).

   Figure 16-3 The New Wiki Document Option Available for a Wiki Page

   
   Description of "Figure 16-3 The New Wiki Document Option Available for a Wiki Page"
2. In the Rich Text Editor (RTE), in the Title field, enter a name for the new wiki document (for example, Just Lincoln).
3. Add, revise, and preview text, formatting, styling, and links in the Rich Text, HTML, and Preview tabbed panes.

   Note:

   • For information about using the toolbar and features in the Rich Text pane, see Using the Rich Text Editor (RTE).

   • Apple iPad users cannot make selections from drop-down lists in the RTE. This is a known limitation.

4. Click Create to save your changes and exit the editor.

   The new wiki document displays, ready to be edited by other portal members (Figure 16-4).

   Figure 16-4 New Wiki Document Associated with a Wiki Page

   
   Description of "Figure 16-4 New Wiki Document Associated with a Wiki Page"

   In the Content Manager task flow, the new wiki document (Lincoln) is saved as a document under its parent wiki folder (Stamp Catalog), along with the wiki document created as the default wiki page document (Stamp Catalog), as shown in Figure 16-5.

   Figure 16-5 Wiki Document Created Within a Wiki Page

   
   Description of "Figure 16-5 Wiki Document Created Within a Wiki Page"

   In the wiki page, the drop-down arrow next to the page name in the breadcrumbs displays a menu that includes the wiki documents created within the page (in this example, Lincoln) (Figure 16-6).

   Figure 16-6 List of Wiki Documents Associated with Wiki Page

   
   Description of "Figure 16-6 List of Wiki Documents Associated with Wiki Page"

When you create wiki documents within a wiki page, they are listed under the wiki page’s folder in the document hierarchy. You can choose to create wiki documents using the Wikis system page so that they are listed directly as a top-level folder in the document hierarchy.

1. Ensure the Wikis system page is exposed in your portal navigation. For information, see Adding an Existing Page to the Portal Navigation in Building Portals with Oracle WebCenter Portal.
2. On the Wikis system page of your portal, select the New Wiki Document action Figure 16-7.

   Figure 16-7 The New Wiki Document Option Available on the Wikis System Page

   
   Description of "Figure 16-7 The New Wiki Document Option Available on the Wikis System Page"
3. Add, revise, and preview text, formatting, styling, and links in the Rich Text, HTML, and Preview tabbed panes.

   Note:

   • For information about using the toolbar and features in the Rich Text pane, see Using the Rich Text Editor (RTE).

   • Apple iPad users cannot make selections from drop-down lists in the RTE. This is a known limitation.

4. Click Create to save your changes and exit the editor.

   The new wiki document displays, ready to be edited by other portal members.

   On the Wikis system page, the new wiki document (MyStamps) is shown as a top-level folder in the document hierarchy, as shown in .

   Figure 16-8 A Wiki Document Listed in the Document Hierarchy on the Wikis System Page

   
   Description of "Figure 16-8 A Wiki Document Listed in the Document Hierarchy on the Wikis System Page"

The RTE provides four tabbed panes where you can create and edit your wiki and blog posts.

• Rich Text. Create and revise content in a WYSIWYG environment using the icons and controls in the RTE toolbar (see About the Rich Text Editor Toolbar).

  Note:

  Apple iPad users cannot make selections from drop-down lists in the RTE. This is a known limitation.

• HTML. Enter HTML manually. This includes entering source code for HTML not handled by the WYSIWYG icons and controls on the Rich Text tab.

  If you exit the HTML pane, then come back to it again, any HTML that may have been entered on separate lines will reformat to display on a single line, as is customary for most HTML editors.

  Note:

  • The RTE ignores the following types of tags when entered in HTML because they are irrelevant or redundant within the RTE context:

    • script tags

    • form elements, such as input, select, textarea, and form

    • frame/frameset

    • document tags, such as html, head, body, meta, and title

    • unknown tags; for example: <foo></foo>

  • Changes to the behavior of the default CSS selectors in a wiki or blog is not supported.

• Preview. Shows a preview of your wiki document or blog post as it will appear when published.

The Rich Text tab of the Rich Text Editor includes various icons and controls to create and revise content in a WYSIWYG environment.

Table 16-1 describes the RTE toolbar icons and controls.

To perform an operation assigned to an icon, click the icon once to either immediately perform the action or open a dialog with further configuration options.

Table 16-1 Rich Text Editor Toolbar Icons and Controls on Rich Text Tab

Control	Description
	Bold, Italic, Underline, and Strike Through. Select text, and click the desired font style icon; or click an icon, and enter text. Click the icon again to exit the font style.
	Paragraph Format. Select a format, then enter text; or highlight text, then select a format.
	Font Name. Select a font, then enter text; or highlight text, then select a font.
	Font Size. Select a size, then enter text; or highlight text, then select a size.
	Text Color or Background Color. Select text, and click the desired text or background color icon, then select a color. Or, click an icon and select a color, then enter text.
	Left Justify, Center Justify, and Right Justify. Select text, and click to apply the desired text alignment; or click an icon, and enter text.
	Decrease Indent and Increase Indent. Select text, and click the desired indent icon to move text left or right.
	Numbered List and Bulleted List. Start a new line, click the desired list type icon, and enter text. Or, select lines of text and click an icon. Click the icon again to remove the list formatting. Alternately, end list mode by pressing Enter twice after the last item.
	Remove Format. Select text, and click this icon to remove all font styling, such as font types, sizes, weights, and colors. Lists and indents are not affected.
	Select Resource. Select text to link to an existing portal resource, then click this icon to open the Select Resource dialog. Select a resource (for example, a document or an announcement in the current portal, or a URL) to be linked from the selected text. Clicking the linked text in the document opens the selected resource in the Document Viewer preview pane. New Resource. Select text to link to a new portal resource, then click this icon to open the New Resource dialog. Select a resource to be linked from the selected text, then create the resource (for example, a discussion forum topic or note), specify the external location of the resource (for example, a URL), specify a name for the new resource (for example, a wiki document), or upload the resource from your local file system or a connected network drive (for example, a document). Note: If you create a new wiki document in this manner, Oracle WebCenter Portal creates a placeholder for the new wiki document in the current folder. To add content to the new wiki document, you must navigate to it and open it in the RTE. Note: For an external URL to be found valid by WebCenter Portal, the system administrator must add it to the list of valid URLs in the valid-link-url.xml file.  See Adding a List of Valid External URLs in Administering Oracle WebCenter Portal. If an external URL is not listed in the file, the following error message appears: The URL entered is not available in the list of valid URLs. Contact your system administrator for the list of valid URLs. The links created using Select Resource and New Resource are created as inline links, and are not added to the Links tab associated with the details of the linking resource. For information about links to resources in WebCenter Portal, see Linking Information. Embed Image. Click to open the Embed Image dialog: Click Select Image to select an image in the current portal. Click Upload Image to upload an image from your local file system or a connected network drive.
	Table. Click to open the Table Properties dialog. See Working with Tables in the Rich Text Editor.
	Insert Horizontal Line. Click to insert a horizontal line at the current cursor location.
	Tools: Maximize/Minimize. Click to expand the RTE to fill the entire screen, or reduce the RTE to display inside the portal. Select All. Select all content in the body in the text input area. Find or Replace. Click to open the Find and Replace dialog, where you can search for a string, or replace a given string with specified text. Snippet. In a blog post, select a portion of text, then click this icon to display that portion as a summary of the blog post on the blog summary page (or digest page), with a Read More link to allow users to view the full blog. In a wiki document, this functionality is not available.
	Cut, Copy, or Paste. Select text, then right-click to display context menu to cut or copy selected text, or paste text in the buffer at the current cursor location. Note: If a browser security warning displays, you can either use keyboard commands (see Using the Keyboard in the Rich Text Editor) or configure your browser to grant access to the clipboard. For example, for the FireFox browser, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Granting_JavaScript_access_to_the_clipboard.

You can use the Rich Text Editor to create tables in your wiki documents and blog posts.

To create a table in the RTE, click the Table icon in the toolbar (Figure 16-12).

Figure 16-12 Rich Text Editor: Table Icon

The Table Properties dialog window opens (Figure 16-13), where you can set basic properties for the table, as described in Table 16-2.

Figure 16-13 Rich Text Editor: Table Properties Dialog (Basic Properties)

Description of "Figure 16-13 Rich Text Editor: Table Properties Dialog (Basic Properties)"

Table 16-2 Rich Text Editor: Basic Table Properties

Property	Description
Rows	(Required) Enter the number of rows in the table.
Columns	(Required) Enter the number of columns in the table.
Width	Enter the width of the table, selecting either pixels or a percent value. Giving the width as a percent value lets you set the proportion of the editing area that the table will occupy.
Height	Enter the height of the table in pixels.
Headers	Select the table element to format as headers, which applies special formatting to them. You can apply header formatting to First Row, First Column or Both.
Border Size	Enter the width of the table borders.
Alignment	Select the alignment of the table on the page Left, Center, or Right.
Cell padding	Enter the space between the cell border and its contents, in pixels.
Caption	Enter label text to be displayed above the table.
Summary	Enter a summary of the table contents that is available for assistive devices like screen readers. It is good practice to provide tables with meaningful summary text to make them more accessible to users with disabilities.

Click the Advanced tab to expose the advanced table properties (Figure 16-14), which you can set as described in Table 16-3.

Figure 16-14 Rich Text Editor: Table Properties Dialog (Advanced Properties)

Description of "Figure 16-14 Rich Text Editor: Table Properties Dialog (Advanced Properties)"

Table 16-3 Rich Text Editor: Advanced Table Properties

Property	Description
Id	Enter a unique identifier for a table element in the document (id attribute).
Language Direction	Select the direction of the text in the table: left to right (LTR) or right to left (RTL) (dir attribute).
Style	Enter the CSS style definitions (style attribute). Note that each value must end with a semi-colon and individual properties should be separated with spaces.
Stylesheet Classes	Enter the class of the table element (class attribute). If a table element is assigned more than one class, separate class names with spaces.

With a table inserted into your document, you can enter values directly in the cells. Additional editing is available through the context menu. To open the context menu, right-click the table and choose actions as described in Table 16-4.

Table 16-4 Rich Text Editor: Table Context Menu Selections

Action	Description
Paste	Pastes the content on the clipboard at the current cursor location
Cell	See Editing Table Cells in the Rich Text Editor.
Row	See Editing Table Rows in the Rich Text Editor.
Column	See Editing Table Columns in the Rich Text Editor.
Delete Table	Deletes the entire table and its contents.
Table Properties	Opens the Table Properties dialog, where you can modify properties as described in Table 16-2 and Table 16-3, with the exception of the number of rows and columns.

The Rich Text Editor is compliant with several accessibility standards, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the US Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the IBM Web Accessibility Checklist. To this end, you can use the RTE with the keyboard as well as a screen reader. The currently supported screen reader solution is JAWS.

For more information about accessibility in Oracle WebCenter Portal, see Setting Your Accessibility Options for WebCenter Portal.

Table 16-9 summarizes the keyboard keys and combinations available to you to navigate and edit text in the RTE.

When you create a wiki page using the Wiki page style, it is listed in the document hierarchy, and is exposed as a separate page in the portal navigation. However, when you create a wiki document using the New Wiki Document action, the wiki document is listed only in the document hierarchy. For easy access to such a wiki document, you can publish it to appear as a page in the portal navigation.

1. In the Content Manager task flow, create a folder with the same name as the existing wiki document at the root level of the portal (see Working with Folders and Files). For example, if the existing wiki document is named Member Meeting Schedule, create a folder named Member Meeting Schedule (Figure 16-19).

   Figure 16-19 Folder Created at the Portal Root Level

   
   Description of "Figure 16-19 Folder Created at the Portal Root Level"
2. Move the existing wiki document into the newly created folder.

   Note:

   The wiki document must have been originally created using the New Wiki Document action, as described in Creating a Wiki Document Within a Wiki Page.

3. Create a new page in the portal, selecting the Wiki page style.
4. In the Title field, enter the display name of the existing wiki document that you want to expose; for example, Member Meeting Schedule.

   Note:

   While there are restrictions on naming files (including wiki documents), there are no naming restrictions for page names. Thus, while any of the following characters can be used to name a wiki page, the page title will include the character(s) but the associated wiki document will replace the illegal character with _.

   ? # & \ / * " | < > : ^

   For example, if you create a wiki page named What's In a Name?, the page will have this title, but the associated wiki document will be named What's In a Name_.

5. Click Create.

   The wiki document is now exposed as a separate page in the navigation area. The location depends on the page template used by your portal. Figure 16-20 shows the Member Meeting Schedule wiki document exposed as a page in the navigation area in a portal.

   Figure 16-20 A Wiki Document Exposed as a Page

   
   Description of "Figure 16-20 A Wiki Document Exposed as a Page"

Content Presenter enables you to select a wiki document, and render its content in a specific template on a page.