VaultWiki 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3

On May 7, 2020, we put forth another stable proposal for VaultWiki 4.1.x, Release Candidate 3. This release adds disambiguation tools, area rules governing the usage of templates, an editor button for invoking templates, overall improved editor responsiveness to other form field selections, a handful of smaller improvements, and over 100 bug fixes and style tweaks.

For a more complete list of changes in RC 3, please see the changelog here.

Where to Focus

RC 3 contains a lot and it can be a bit daunting to decide what to look at. Of particular interest are the following items (and trying to break them):

• Disambiguation pages (more below)
• Creating and testing areas with various template rules; also, determining whether the expected behavior is followed if you also require specific content-types or custom fields in the same area (more below)
• Using the editor button to insert TEMPLATE content
• Ensuring wiki uploads still work as expected
• Using the Infobox custom-field type, and testing new infobox styles and groupings
• Using the new Duration custom-field type
• Trying various option combinations for Date custom-fields
• Assigning microdata properties to various custom fields

Disambiguation Pages

RC 3 introduces the new Disambiguation page type. These are intended to be groupings of other similarly-named, similarly-themed, or often-confused wiki pages. For example, you might have multiple pages in your wiki that are named "Blue" or some variation:

• Blue (color)
• Blue (cheese)
• Blue (parrot)
• Blue (a fish in pegasus's aquarium)
• Blue (character from the TV show Blue's Clues)
• Blue (character from the movie Rio)
• Blues (music)

A disambiguation page will help uninformed users make sense of these options, reducing frustration if they end up on the wrong page. Each page that is disambiguated shows a notice at the top that describes the topic of the page, and links back to the Disambiguation page in case the user wanted a different topic.

Listings on disambiguation pages allow for full-sentence descriptions to explain how each is different from the other.

Template Rules

RC 3 now allows the institution of a template rule in each area. Using such a rule, you can:

• Suggest that editors use certain templates
• Allow editors to easily copy the contents of suggested templates, like they were drafts
• Require that editors use certain templates
• Force pages to match a template exactly, only allowing editors to fill in template parameters.

A more indepth discussion of these rules can be found here.

Release Notes

VaultWiki 4.1.0 RC 3 is proposed as stable. We recommend that customers test it first, but it should be usable in a live environment if the customer deems those tests successful.