Wiki TOC menu

Hi Jasonwhat,
Thanks for bring up this topic.
I would like to see Q&A simplified - to differ from the Post content type:

• Question title labeled "Question"
• Answer - no title, just text box
• Recent Additions block to show answer as "answer for question.." (see image below)

I am a visual person - so I attached some images...

I am working on some notes for the wiki content type and will post them soon, still researching other modules to add features.

--Rose

Some thoughts on the Commons Wiki content type...
Wiki features needed for my drupal commons projects are:

• Table of contents
• footnotes / references
• word count
• special characters
• image captions
• print

I spent a few hours today adding TOC navigation -- see development snapshot below.
There are many great modules to choose from so this task will not be difficult. I will share my recipe when complete.

What basic wiki features should be in Drupal Commons? - I am not sure - but these are my needs.

When I get the question, whats the difference between a wiki and a post, it should be clear that the wiki type is intended for any group member to be able to edit a wiki node. Posts are only editable by the owner, which is when comments are essential.

What Wiki lacks to be usable for us at this time is a table of contents, or wiki menu, to add hierarchical structure to this type. Having a river of news content flow, even with radioactivity, is just not that useful to people looking for more structured data.

I used an edited version of Table of Contents module 7.x-2.x-dev - patch for show per content type, and re-themed.

Module developers are working on releasing 7.2 - see issues - TOC for D7

In my tests yesterday... this is the best TOC module for Drupal Commons, nice config options and works with ckeditor 4.

Will be playing this weekend with integrating the Footnotes module.

Consider looking at the Talk module as well, which is a great feature for wiki pages.

Hi,
Did you apply your own style on the Q&A ? It looked much different from the default of mine here as attached.

For my Q&A example page in #1 I used the Drupal Commons 3.x Interactive Prototype, the commons origins theme is still under development and when complete is expected to look like the prototype. so for the Q&A page example I took a snapshot of the Q&A detail page and graphically edited it to show "Answer" content type with on title.

We still need to be patient the commons origins theme is still under much development.
View development and test 7.x-3.x snapshots - -commons_origins.git / summary

Talk module is a great way to handle comments for wikis; thanks neRok (#6).
I was thinking of putting the comment form and the last 10 comments in the sidebar; but I think "discussion" tab with the talk module is a better solution.
** Looking into your Simple TOC project!
Thanks, Rose

I am especially interested in Q&A aspect of this issue. Rosemeria I like your screenshots a lot in #1

I wonder if this issue really is 2 separate issues: one for wikis and another for Q&A?

My Q&A hope is to have streamlined functionality per rosemeria #1 along with "accepted answer" ability, perhaps as described/implemented in https://drupal.org/project/commons_correct_answer (which I have not tested, btw. I just see that it promises something I want.)

I agree with the proposal to improve wiki feature with a TOC menu likeRosemeria said in comment #2 at wiki & Q&A issue. I suggest this menu can be placed by default at right sidebar and auto scroll down when page scroll.

Three issues with Commons Wiki - TOC menu
1) What module to use?
2) Where to place menu and other nav features, like "back to top" to use?
3) Styling - css in Commons Origin Theme

1) What module? At this point in DC development - size matters - Table of Contents module is large and probable has more features than needed. Easiest and smallest TOC module I found is TOC Formatter, easy config at Content types>Wiki>Manage Display> body field format set to "table of contents". I believe this module can be easily modified to work in commons wiki and should be looked into based on size, config and minimal feature set.

2) Where to place menu? Design wise Commons wiki is to be a basic, minimal wiki -- most of my users will be people who have never used a wiki before. In useability tests* we preformed, toc menu at top of text body field was greatly preferred over a sidebar menu, "back to top" nav at sections a must have and a "hide" table of contents action was found not be not needed.
(* useability test included about 38 people who have never used a wiki before and included users from different age ranges)

3) Styling toc menu? - wiki css for toc menu and wiki header tags to be included in Commons Origin theme. Example of some basic wiki formatting in comment #2.

Hope this is helpful,
Rose

Updating info on Question field.