Comments on: “How can I add a template to a SharePoint wiki?”… you can’t!… or can you? I’m so confused.

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:37:55 +0000

Jan – Start here:

http://www.bitsofsharepoint.com/BlogPoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=39

Mark

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:17:26 +0000

Hi Loek,

I am interested in your solution for creating consistent looking wiki pages. I am working in WSS 3.0 and want to make each page in the wiki library look the same. I don’t want to not show the mini console (links to Edit, History, Incoming Links), but rather just create my own Edit link to be able to edit the wiki page. Does this make sense and does your solution work on just wiki libraries and not a wiki site? Can you offer suggestion on how to create a hyperlink to edit the page. Thank you.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:50:30 +0000

Hi Loek,
It would be great if you could help me with customizing the wkpstd.aspx. Could you give some tips?

By: Uday

Uday — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:31:40 +0000

Hi Loek,
Can you please share your approach on having your own version of wkpstd.aspx in a custom site definition?I am working on a similar requirement :)

By: Loek Nollet

Loek Nollet — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:46:57 +0000

I’m working on a site definition for a SharePoint wiki for my current project. It’s working pretty well so far, I’ve managed to make my custom stylesheet and masterpage stick to any newly created pages by including my own version of wkpstd.aspx in the site definition itself.
Send me a mail if you’re interested in the raw XML, it might be helpful :)

But if I can just leave a question of my own here: Does anybody know how to extend the underlying wiki content type? My users want to be able to add attachments to a wiki article and I can’t figure out where the wiki content type comes from?

By: Vili

Vili — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:18:43 +0000

And another drawback is that you can’t change wkpstd.aspx
Because this single file is in another folder. Pfh.

By: Vili

Vili — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:12:25 +0000

Hi!

Our solution is this (we have rights to change iis settings):

Copy from 12\TEMPLATE these folders to somewhere else, like: c:\my_site_custom_templates.

CONTROLTEMPLATES
IMAGES
LAYOUTS

In IIS at your site settings change the virtual folders to access your copied folders:

_controltemplates – CONTROLTEMPLATES
_layouts – LAYOUTS
_layouts/images – IMAGES

Restart IIS.

Drawback is that if you do a backup/restore, you have to manually set these things, and web part install and sharepoint updates will not work correctly; you have to copy the files and changes. But I will be a happy man if this was the only problem with sharepoint.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:04:04 +0000

I’m Kevin, responsible for wikis in SharePoint vNext. I’m on twitter: @spwiki, I’d encourage you and others interested in SharePoint wikis to follow me there.

We’ve certainly heard the request for wiki templates, we certainly don’t have a good solution in v3. Great write-up of your attempt to make this work :)

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:18:30 +0000

I spent a long time on this one… mostly because I’m not much of a developer, but what I found was wkpstd.aspx is copied to the Wiki document library for each new page you make. Through some digging (brute force, I grep’d the sharepoint bin folder) it looks like an event handler does this, as wkpstd.aspx was found in one of the SharePoint DLLs.

Rather silly to code in a template name like that, ey?

I found one solution but never got it to work (again, mostly because I’m not a developer) but it had to do with overriding the save event on the create page form and using your own event handler to copy a template of your choosing.

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No assembly required « Path to SharePoint — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:15:53 +0000

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