<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Waylan Limberg</b> <<a href="mailto:waylan@gmail.com">waylan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 12/20/05, Mark Moorcroft <<a href="mailto:mmoorcroft@mail.arc.nasa.gov">mmoorcroft@mail.arc.nasa.gov</a>> wrote:<br><snip>once some content is added to<br>> the page the question mark persists depending on what item in the sidebar is
<br>> selected. It's as if you must re-enter the same same content several times to<br>> assure it appears relative to every other sidebar link.<br>><br>><br>My guess is that when you say "depending on what item in the sidebar
<br>is selected." you mean when viewing different pages. I am also<br>assuming that these different pages are in different groups. My guess<br>is that the links you added to the sidebar did not specify a group, so<br>
when you are in GroupA, it looks for the page in GroupA, but when<br>viewing a page in GroupB, it only looks for the page in GroupB,<br>doesn't find it and tells you the page needs to be created. The<br>workaround is to have all links in the sidebar include the group the
<br>page belongs to: GroupA.SomePage GroupB.AnotherPage etc.</blockquote><div><br>
This was also my guess for what you are encountering. Here's
another way of expressing it: As a general rule, you should "qualify"
any links that will - or could - be visible to the user while the user
is viewing pages in multiple wikigroups. These would be links in
a Site Header or Site Footer or the Site (or sometimes the Main)
SideBar. <br>
<br>
A "qualified" link includes a full name, i.e. the group name as well as
the page name. When a link isn't qualified - when it consists of
a page name only - the wiki will always construe it to be a link to a
page in the same wikigroup as the page that you're viewing at the
moment. When the link is located in a SideBar (one that will be
visible while viewing pages of multiple wikigroups), an unqualified
link can lead to the kind of problem that (I think) you're experiencing.<br>
<br>
Note also (the actual reason I'm posting): sometimes the syntax
[[GroupA/Some Page]] might be better for your purposes than
[[GroupA.SomePage]]. In the former (with the slash separator
instead of the dot), the group's name won't show up on the page; the
link text will only display "Some Page", but the link will still be
qualified.<br>
</div>Hope that helps!<br></div>