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<P><FONT size=2>Mike<BR><BR>Thanks for your note....<BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Mike Shanley [<A
href="mailto:up@upisup.com">mailto:up@upisup.com</A>]<BR>Sent: Thursday,
September 06, 2007 3:54 PM<BR>To: David Fionda<BR>Cc:
pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com<BR>Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Educational Uses of PM
Wiki<BR><BR><BR><BR>David Fionda wrote:<BR>> Hello All<BR>> <BR>>
A couple of questions...<BR>> <BR>> 1.) I am trying to set up
PMWiki for use with multiple classes. Each<BR>> class will have their
own wiki. SHould i use category pages to do this?<BR>The easiest way would
be to use groups... So all pages for different classes would be linked to like
this: [[AmericanHistory/Homework1]] and [[WorldHistory/Quiz3]]. With this setup,
you could use the Main group for your policies: [[Main/Grading]] and
[[Main/BiographyOfMrDave]].<BR><BR>If you don't want people from different
classes to even SEE the rest of the classes stuff, you can create a wikifarm...
which is pretty easy, but a little out-of-the-way as far as these things
go.<BR><BR><STRONG><EM>That’s a great idea...thanks!</EM></STRONG><BR><BR>>
2.) I want to embed PM WIki into another application, Is there
some<BR>> reference to do that?<BR>Do you mean into another INTERNET
application? Or into Powerpoint? The first is possible, but will take some work.
The second is not possible.</FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I have an existing web
site that using its own CSS that I want to call the content of PMWIki into
and format it using the CSS file of that web site.... The layout is 2
columns. </FONT></EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Is there someone who I can have
write a skin based on my layout?</FONT><BR><BR>> <BR>> 3.)
Also, can I create a page in another application other than PM<BR>> WIki.
WHich script should I run to do that?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Again, when I create a class in my COurse
System, I want to automatically create the wiki default pages for that
class. Can I do that from my php course system?</FONT><BR>There are
scripts in the cookbook to convert from microsoft word, excel, and possibly a
few others in the cookbook. It's not that efficient however. Better would be to
create your pages in PmWiki using the DocumentIndex as your guide. You can do
everything (and more ;) with it anyway.<BR><BR>If you need images or other such
niceities in your pages, you can easily attach them to the page.<BR><BR>If you
could be more specific with your needs, the people around here could better help
you... But I hope my answer helped a bit. I've seen a few teachers around here
(myself included) that use PmWiki in different ways.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Thanks again
Mike!</FONT><BR><BR>-Mike<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>