Create A Journal

Posted by Poor Yorick on 07 Oct 2007 19:41, last edited by Helmut_pdorf on 20 Feb 2009 08:43

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Difference Between "Journal" and "Blog"

While some may use the words journal and blog to refer to the same thing, I see them as two different animals. Blogs typically are used to express ideas, feelings, etc. and journals are used to record occurrences or progress toward a goal.

Also, blogs are usually distinguished by individual pages for each posting. For my purposes, a journal is for keeping shorter, at-a-glance information on one page. If you're interested in creating a blog, see the blog wiki how-to.

Creating a Journal Page

An ideal journal page will have a table of contents, proper headings to distinguish between the entries, and a quick and easy way to add to the page.

I had been using a journal for about two weeks and became increasingly annoyed that I had to scroll to the bottom of the journal to click the edit button, then scroll to the bottom of my text to add my latest entry.

This code at the top of your journal page makes adding entries a lot easier:

[[button edit-append text="Add Entry" style="background:lightblue;padding:5px;"]]
[[f>toc]]
+ Entry Heading...
Entry text, etc...

This provides an "Add Entry" button at the top of the journal page, a table of contents on the right showing my entries, and a neat little text box to add to the page without scrolling.

This method will add text to the bottom of your journal page. If you would rather add your entries to the top of your page, use this code:

[[button edit text="Add Entry" style="background:lightblue;padding:5px;"]]
[[f>toc]]
+ Entry Heading...
Entry text, etc...

The page edit button is still at the bottom of the page and can be used to make changes anywhere in the document.

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I would use the autonumber feature and the ListPages module

Helmut_pdorf 09 Jan 2009 17:33

For a journal - which is normally ascending sequenced by entries I would use the
Autonumbering of pages feature and the ListPages module:

1. Create a category "journal:" with a standard live template (page) named "journal:_template" ( let this begin only with "%%content%%" as content and let us play later with the layout)

2. make this category in the site manager to use "Autonumbering of pages" feature (same menu point) - this switches on the create of the page names automatic - starting with 1 and adds with every new creating page 1 to the last existing page with the highest number. The title can be setup here as %s - which says only the entered name to use as title or other items, where you can insert the created autonumber into any title by automatic.

3. Build an overview-page (not using the "journal:" category) named how you want and use the ListPages module to build interesting listings of the journakl entries. These listings will look like our blogs listings (start-blog or start-blog2 and insert the possibility (next point) to add a new entry.

4. New Entries for such Journal: the use of the module NewPage creates always a new page named "journal:###" where the ### stands for these autimatic created numbers..
[[module NewPage category="journal"]] is the minimum you need for this. I would use
[[module NewPage category="journal" tags="journal" button="Create new Journal Etnry"]] to make clear that the tags are set to "journal" and the entry button is clear for very user..

But this is ending in a blog-like layout anyway. Only the URL's or pagenames are ascending in the order of their generation.

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I would use the autonumber feature and the ListPages module

Helmut_pdorf 09 Jan 2009 17:33

For a journal - which is normally ascending sequenced by entries I would use the
Autonumbering of pages feature and the ListPages module:

1. Create a category "journal:" with a standard live template (page) named "journal:_template" ( let this begin only with "%%content%%" as content and let us play later with the layout)

2. make this category in the site manager to use "Autonumbering of pages" feature (same menu point) - this switches on the create of the page names automatic - starting with 1 and adds with every new creating page 1 to the last existing page with the highest number. The title can be setup here as %s - which says only the entered name to use as title or other items, where you can insert the created autonumber into any title by automatic.

3. Build an overview-page (not using the "journal:" category) named how you want and use the ListPages module to build interesting listings of the journakl entries. These listings will look like our blogs listings (start-blog or start-blog2 and insert the possibility (next point) to add a new entry.

4. New Entries for such Journal: the use of the module NewPage creates always a new page named "journal:###" where the ### stands for these autimatic created numbers..
[[module NewPage category="journal"]] is the minimum you need for this. I would use
[[module NewPage category="journal" tags="journal" button="Create new Journal Etnry"]] to make clear that the tags are set to "journal" and the entry button is clear for very user..

But this is ending in a blog-like layout anyway. Only the URL's or pagenames are ascending in the order of their generation.

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Sie können fragen und mitwirken in der deutschsprachigen » User-Gemeinschaft für WikidotNutzer oder
im deutschen » Wikidot Handbuch ?