Another Swiki question

Mark Guzdial guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Oct 12 14:27:47 UTC 2001


> But, if you look down at the bottom, you'll see that the gifs
>are not only inlined (as they ought to be) but also appear at the bottom
>of the page, too. (As is the linked .html.)
>
>How on earth did I manage to do that?

By default, when you upload an attachment, the attachment is linked 
in at the bottom of the page.  There are radio buttons on the Attach 
page (just below the Browse and Upload buttons) where you can turn 
off this default.

Our main goal in designing the Swiki is supporting classes, and even 
at a techy place like here at Georgia Tech, most of our students 
don't grok a lot about hierarchical filesystems, FTP, etc.  We did 
some versions where the Attach page was basically a front-end to an 
FTP server, but that confused lots of people.  In the current 
version, the metaphor is "attaching a file to a page" (as one would 
attach a file to email) -- by default, the file is in a page-specific 
directory, and the link to the file is automatically inserted into 
the page for you.  You can change these defaults, if you want to, but 
that meets the needs of our most common users.

Mark

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