Autodesk WikiHelp Product help with community knowledge

Contributing

1. Add Your Knowledge

The Autodesk WikiHelp combines learning resources provided by Autodesk with knowledge from our vibrant user community.

We add our best Help, and you contribute what you know best. Your ideas and information help provide an edge to the entire Autodesk community that is connected to this powerful collective brainshare. You may learn something new or help others today.

After all, using our products, millions of users have gained an edge in their respective fields and also continuously help others in one of the most collaborative user communities in the world. We now invite you to share your knowledge using the powerful tools in this wiki.

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You do the math: The Autodesk Help + User Community Knowledge = Best Help Ever

Add Your Knowledge

The first step is to get familiar with our Wiki Guidelines. On most pages of this Wiki site, after you sign in you can:

Edit content

1. On a Wiki page, click Edit page ► Edit Content. The page opens in the editor, similar to a word processor, with a toolbar at the top. See the toolbar icon reference at the bottom of this page.
2. Edit the page content. You can copy and paste from other web pages and applications, insert images and links, and browse the Wiki hierarchy.
3. When you finish, in the toolbar, click Save to submit your edits for moderation. The page returns to view mode. The new page is a subpage to the page you last viewed. You can move the page later.
After a moderator approves the draft, it is published for everyone to see.

Tag

Tags are key words for searches in the Wiki Help. They display at the top of Select Tag dialog box, and near the bottom of the side bar on the left of the Wiki page.
Add tags
1. On a Wiki page, click Edit page ► Tag
2. In the dialog box, use the Create New Tag button any number of times to add tags to the Bucket. In Results, you can select tags to place into the bucket.
3. When you finish adding tags into the bucket, click Submit.
The tags you submit are attached to the page.
Delete tags
1. On a Wiki page, click Edit page ► Tag
2. At at the top of the Select Tag dialog box, click a tag to make it inactive, and then click Submit.

Add images

Do not include spaces in image file names.
Maximum width for images: 675 pixels, with image aligned to the left. Images any larger bleed off to the right of the defined page.
1. On a Wiki page, click Edit page ► Edit content. The page opens in the editor.
2. Place the cursor at a location for the image.
3. Click Images

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4. In the dialog box, browse to the image or images, and then click Attach files.
The file attaches to the page, and is inserted at the location of the cursor.

ABOUT IMAGES
The most effective and economical content in technical communication uses text and images in combination to complement and support one another.
- Avoid ambiguity, which is a constant foe of images as well as the written word.
- Read and understand the associated Help text.
- Make the illustration appropriate for the text. (Put a how-to illustration in a procedure, and not in a concept topic.)
- Locate the image immediately following the associated Help text.
- Size the image no larger than necessary to read easily.

Add videos

Upload Videos

Add or delete pages

Before you add a page, conduct a search on the Wiki to see if it is currently available. The currently open page becomes the parent of an added page.
1. On a Wiki page that will be the parent to the page you create, click New.
2. Select a template from the list, or click Create new page and create your own page layout.
3. On the page, add content, as suggested in the template.
4. When your content is finished, in the toolbar, click Save to submit your edits for moderation. The page returns to view mode.
After a moderator approves the draft, it is published for everyone to see. In the table of contents, the page is nested under the parent page topic.
If your new page is not in the correct location, you can move it.
To delete a page, on the toolbar, click Edit page ► Delete. In the dialog box, confirm the action.

Copy and paste from Microsoft Word

1. In the Microsoft Word document, select the information that you want to move into a Wiki page (press CTRL+A to select all), and copy the information to the clipboard (press CTRL+C). Do not copy a generated table of contents.
2. Sign into the WikiHelp, and navigate to the area where you want to add the copied content.
3. Click Create new page.
4. On the draft page, enter a title.
5. In the content area, delete the default text, and on the Editor toolbar, click Paste from Word

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    In Internet Explorer, if this message displays: Do you want to allow this webpage to access your Clipboard?, click Allow   Access.
    The information is pasted into the content area. If necessary, adjust the content.
6. Click Save.
    The new page is submitted to Moderation for approval and publishing.

Move pages

If you have administrative permissions, you can move pages.
1. On the page you want to move, click Edit page ► Move.
3. In the dialog box, click the navigation arrow at the upper left, and select a new parent page, and then click Move.
The page moves to the selected location. In the table of contents, the page is nested under the new parent page.

Submit comments

In the comments box at the bottom of each page, you can add a comment. Comments can be observations, questions, or answers to comments left by others.
Changes and comments undergo a review by an Autodesk moderator. After a moderator approves the comments, they are published for everyone to see.

Restrict Access

To control who can see a page, click Edit page ►Restrict access.

Reuse content using transclusion

In the Wiki Help, you can reference a page, a section of a page, or other content to another page using a process called transcluding. Transcluded content is referenced, not copied. When the source content is updated, that update occurs everywhere the source was transcluded as well.
Use DekiScript, a scripting language available in the Wiki Help, to execute transclusion.
Do not format DekiScript into any style other than Normal. Styled DekiScript displays as regular text and does not execute an action.

Transclude the content of one page to another page

1. On the page where you want to place a reference to another page, click Edit.
2. In Edit mode, on the toolbar, click Insert ► DekiScript, and add this Dekiscript:
     {{wiki.page("<path to page>")}}
3. Insert the <path to page> portion of the URL to the Wiki page to reference.
     Example of a URL to a Wiki page to reference:                                                                                   http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor
     In this URL:
         http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/ is the root domain of the URL.
        Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor is the <path to page> portion of the URL, after the root       domain.
        This DekiScript includes the Autodesk Inventor page on another page:
       {{wiki.page("Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor")}}

Transclude a section of content from one page to another page
1. On the page where you want ot place a reference to a section of another page, click Edit.
2. In Edit mode, on the toolbar, click Insert ► DekiScript, and add this Dekiscript:
     {{wiki.page("<path to page>","<section name>")}}
3. Insert the <path to page> and <section name> portions of the URL to the Wiki page to reference.
    Example of a URL to a Wiki page to reference:                                                                                             http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor/Images
     In this URL,
     http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/  is the root domain of the URL.
     Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor is the <path to page> portion of the URL after the root domain.
     Images is the <section name> (the H2, H3, H4, or H5 heading) above the section of text to reference.
     This DekiScript includes the Images section of the Autodesk Inventor page on another page:
    {{wiki.page("Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor ",>","Images")}}

Transclude other content

You can transclude other content using an XPath expression. The targeted content is identified by an ID or Class attribute, which you apply.
{{wiki.page("<path to page>")["<XPath>"]}}
Examples of transcluding other content:
To transclude a table with the ID of MyTable:
{{ wiki.page("Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor ")["//table[@id='MyTable']"] }}
To bring in all content in div tags with a class of MyStuff on the Autodesk Inventor page:
{{ wiki.page("Product_Help/Autodesk_Inventor ")["//div[@class='MyStuff']"] }}

Toolbar Button	Name	Description and Instructions
	Save	Saves the page, closes the editor, and returns you to View mode. Click to save changes.
	Cancel	Closes the editor and returns you to View mode without saving changes.
View >	Source	Access HTML source file. Your edits run through the XHTML validator. Invalid XHTML is stripped out.
View >	Show Blocks	Shows the blocks in the content. Each paragraph is a separate block. Press Enter to create the next block. Soft return creates a new line in the same block.
View >	Hide Blocks	Hides the blocks in the content.
	Paste as Plain Text	Pastes formatted text as unformatted text.
	Paste from Word	Pastes content copied from a Microsoft Word document.
	Remove Format	Removes formats from selected text. Useful when you copy content that contains erroneous formatting.
	Bold	Applies bold format to text. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Italics	Applies italic format to text. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Underline	Displays a line under text. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Strike Through	Displays a ~~line through text~~. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Numbered List	Creates a numbered list for items in a sequence, or removes the list.
	Bulleted List	Creates a bulleted list for non sequential items, or removes the list.
	Decrease Indent	Decreases the amount of indent. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Increase Indent	Increases the amount of indent. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Left Justify	Aligns text to the left margin. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Center Justify	Aligns text in the center of the text area. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Right Justify	Aligns text to the right margin. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Block Justify	Aligns the text in a block. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Text Color	Controls the color of text. For a specific color, open the Source and manually add the color code. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Background Color	Controls the color that displays in backgrounds. Select the text, and then click the icon.
Normal	Normal	Returns the text format style to Normal. Select the text, and then click the icon.
	Styles	Controls the style of text in a block. Besides Normal, choose from: -Formatted -Block Quote - indents text in relation to the body text. -Expand/Collapse - Expands and collapses content after a heading. -Plaintext - removes action from hypertext.
	Insert	Inserts the following on the page: -Flash -Extensions that are available in the system. -DekiScript - references content from other pages. -JavaScript (JEM) -CSS -Comment - comments selected text out of view in saved content.
	Link	Inserts or edits a Link on the page. Place the cursor, and then click the icon.
	Table	Inserts or edits a table on the page. Place the cursor, and then click the icon. Right-click a table row to see options to work with tables.
	Images	Attaches and inserts an image, or edits an image. See the Add images section.
	Template	Inserts a Template from your list of Templates located at Tools -> Templates.
	Transformations	Applies a class to selected content. Useful for setting the presentation of code examples, such as XML or VB.

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