Namespace Manager

A namespace contains articles. A namespace refers to the entire hierarchy of a specific parent forum and its respective child forums.

In each namespace, each article title in a Wiki forum is unique to that article. Every namespace has a unique prefix to the title variable in article URLs, usually the Title of the namespace.

If you visit the Namespace Manager, you will see a list of some pre-defined namespaces. These namespaces, as well as others that can be installed using modifications, each have special functions.

Editing Namespaces

The process for creating and editing namespaces is essentially the same. There are a number of Yes/No options, which should be pretty self-explanatory. There are also a number of input fields, outlined below.

vw_space_top.jpgEnter the Title of the namespace. This will be used as a prefix for article URLs, and it will appear in the forum list by this title.

You can enter a Display Title if you want the namespace to be called something else in the forum list, but this is optional.

Enter the BB-Code tag for the namespace. Wrapping some text with these tags will link to an article with that title, and will look for it in this namespace.

Enter a Display Order to arrange your namespaces on the forum list. A setting of 0 will hide the namespace.

vw_space_forum.jpgThe Top-Level Forum is the forum where articles should be saved. Valid selections for this field are forums that have the following settings:

• Parent Forum: No One
  
• Act as Forum: Yes
  
• Forum is Active: Yes
  
• Forum is Open: Yes
  
• Enable wiki in this forum: Disabled (yes that's right)

Display in Forum is useful because most forum styles only like top-level forums with "Act as Forum: No". Selecting a Display Forum will treat the namespace as a child of that forum. The namespace will even inherit its permissions.