Overview - Using classic Wiki Pages

Warning:

Beginning with Polarion version 2015, this feature is replaced by Pages. You should create all new reports and informational pages using that feature, rather than Classic Wiki (formerly called just "Wiki"). Classic Wiki will be supported through the version 2015 release cycle, and possibly longer. If you have any reports or informational pages that you anticipate needing in the long term, you should plan to recreate these using LiveReport or Info Pages.

Polarion features a built-in Wiki where users can create whatever content they need to support their projects and collaboration. There is a default wiki space for the repository, and a default space for each project, created when the project is created. In projects, you can create additional spaces to help organize your content. For example, you might have one space for guidelines, and another for meeting notes. The wiki provides a highly flexible communication medium accessible to everyone with access permissions for Wiki pages. Wiki pages are stored and versioned in the underlying Subversion repository just like any other development artifact.

The Wiki is fully integrated with other features of the platform, so it is quite easy to pull information from other areas such as the Work Items tracker and display it in useful ways in Wiki pages. A robust library of macros is provided that makes it simple to embed complex information. A complete reference for these and as well as Wiki mark-up syntax is provided online in the Wiki Editor.

This chapter explains the major features of the Wiki. Most interaction is fairly standard. If you have used other Wikis you should have no difficulty working with the integrated Wiki, especially if you use the rich-text editor which is available for working with non-scripted Wiki content.

The entry point of each Wiki space is its Home page, which appears in Navigation under the space name the Documents and Pages topic. Within each Wiki space you can add Wiki pages, and/or create additional Wiki spaces, and Wiki pages within those spaces. The Help topics in this section explain how. As you develop pages, you will probably embed links to other pages. In any page, you can find what other pages are linked to the one you are viewing by clicking the Backlinks button on the toolbar (click Expand Tools) to expose the Backlinks section of the page. This section lists all pages linked to the current page and provides links to each one.