Microsoft SharePoint Wiki Syntax cheat sheet
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) now includes the ability to quickly and easily create Wiki web sites. This is great! Wikis are perfect for documentation, meeting note taking, brainstorming and basically just creating content that a group needs to edit easily.
Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on MOSS features out there. I’ve been hunting everywhere for a guide to all the Wiki tags that MOSS’s wiki supports. After a lot of extensive research and questioning and trial and error, I now present you with the complete and concise master cheat-sheet to MOSS’s wiki syntax:
Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007 Wiki tag syntax
- Link to another wiki page: [[Name of page]]
Feel free to print out this handy guide and post it next to your computer.
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There are twice more features. Remember something like:
Custom named link to another wiki page: [[Name of page|link text]]
Wow … that’s really extensive … how did you manage to come up with it??!?
Am I missing something here? I can’t find the info or a link…. or is my sense of humour failing ;-|
I’m trying to find out how to link to a section of the same page (so that I can do a contents list at the top) but do you think I can find any help from Microsoft (or anywhere else)?
Steve’s sense of humour is probably as bad as mine because I found this page in a Google searching hopeing to find an extensive list of tag help. The sad thing is, [[Page Name]] is the only help there is. Not bloody good enough, Microsoft! Wiki support must have been a last-minute addition, surely.
I have my own syntax at http://www.inatalie.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry070919-043418
I think this page should be read as sarcastic…
SharePoint wiki is lame at best.
Too bad my IT chose it over the lovely MediaWiki.
Forced to work with SharePoint wiki, I’m searching the web and MS to find usable syntax (to say nothing of the extra features of a real wiki).
And where are the CSS tag definitions? I cannot even get bullet lists to appear after customizing a stylesheet!
Hilarious! I am currently implementing this as the wiki cheat sheet in my company’s Sharepoint wiki.
Apologies to all who didn’t get my dripping sarcasm. To clarify, the built-in Wiki in SharePoint is just lacking any real wiki syntax features. The ONLY wiki syntax it supports is the one I mention above.
So, while you can have a Wiki in SharePoint, it’s not going to have much semantic markup in it, nor contain useful features like the ability to add photos with ease.
If your org needs a wiki, don’t use SharePoint. If you have sharepoint, then maybe the built in Wiki will be somewhat useful, but don’t expect it to have a full feature set, unfortunately.
If any vendors are reading this, a ‘wiki text editor web part’ would be a great add-on. Something that would replace the default text editor in the wiki and provide real wiki syntax and things like the ability to upload photos directly from the Wiki rather than having to first create an image library then manually link to the images.
This list is a life saver. Thank you for all of your work bring together disparate information on the Microsoft SharePoint Wiki Syntax to share with all of us. I can’t wait to begin publishing to my company knowledge-base with it. We are so tired of having to use a WYSIWYG for everything. It’s nice to know that placing a tag will be simple and mouse-click free! Will you be writing a book on the Microsoft SharePoint Wiki Syntax in the future? Perhaps you could contact the folks at MS Press. An interactive computer based training would be helpfull as well. Good Luck!
Thanks for your work. It’s a shame there is no title for this at MS Press. There really should be a certification. The Syntax makes it possible to be free from the WYSIWYG once and, well, for a moment. Artemy does have a point that by adding a pipe character we greatly increase the power of the Syntax like so: [[Name of page|link text]]. Being that the “Name of page” and “link text” can be replaced with variable data it opens the possability for some really usefull combinations. As a SharePoint Wiki power user, I appeciate the ability to write in a comprehensive markup language so can see the formating with the text.
Microsoft says it best “To link to another wiki page in this library, type [[Page Name]].”.
Good job!
Saved me a lot of time, I was searching for some help on the syntax. I’ve already published your work on the company’s MOSS, I hope there’s no copyright on it.
In case you are interested, ThreeWill integrated SharePoint with the Confluence enterprise wiki. You can read more about it here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/SharePoint+Connector+for+Confluence.