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How do I...Control page order in the navigation panel?

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Deki Wiki organizes pages in the navigation panel alphabetically by page path.  You can leverage the following workaround to create pages A and B, such that B displays before A:

  1. Create page A.
  2. Create page B, but use a name that will cause it to appear before B (such as 1B).
  3. Edit page 1B and rename it to B.
  4. You now have two pages called A and B, but B is displayed before A.


View sample of pages A and B.

  

Note:
If you use the following number scheme: 1, 2, 3, ..., 10, 11 12, ...
You will get this ordering:  1, 10, 11, 12, ..., 2, 3

If you want the pages to be ordered by numeric value, use this number scheme:  00001, 00002, 00003, ..., 00010, 00011, 00012
 


 

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Unfortunately, this is a poor workaround as search results display the original name. So, for example, if you are adding a page called "beavers" and you want it to be displayed before "aardvarks" and you give it the temporary name "1beav" just to move it to the head of the list, the page title displayed in the search results will be "1beav" even after you've edited the page name to "beavers". edited 04:58, 6 Jun 2008
Posted 04:57, 6 Jun 2008
I agree, this is a tough design limitation. The nice part, is that even if you change the name to affect the order of listed items, links to the original filename will automatically be redirected to the new filename, so no links are broken. Of course, a user will see the "Redirect" message in the upper-right.
Posted 22:17, 14 Oct 2008
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