A Tour of Swirrl
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Your wiki's home page provides an overview of activities. You can quickly access your
favourite (bookmarked) items, and items that you or others have recently edited. The home
page also provides a way to communicate with the rest of your team, via 'announcements'.
You can store and share your information as Swirrl wiki-items. Our powerful word processor-style editor lets you easily format and style your text, insert images and link to other pages both inside and outside Swirrl.
Swirrl wiki-items can belong to categories, and you can assign attributes (i.e. characteristics or properties) to them.
For example, an item about a particular member of staff might be in the 'people' or 'staff' category, and have attributes
such as paygrade, department etc.
The description and attributes of each individual item can also be exported as html if you want to back them up, or export them to another system.
You can upload files into your Swirrl wiki. These could be images to embed in a wiki-item, documents, presentations or any other files related to your work.
Files in Swirrl are assigned permissions, just like wiki-items, so you can easily decide who to share them with.
Swirrl's search facilities make it easy to locate your information quickly.
You can also organize and explore your items and files using 'tags'.
Wiki administrators can add, edit and delete users and groups of users.
Swirrl's permission system allows fine-grained access control for both viewing and editing:
allow just individual users or groups, everyone in the wiki, or publish to the whole internet.
You have full control, and it's easy to see what the current settings are.
Every time a wiki-item in Swirrl is saved, a new version is created. You can see who changed what when,
and you can revert back to old versions if you change your mind about an edit.
Wiki Home
Your wiki's home page provides an overview of activities. You can quickly access your
favourite (bookmarked) items, and items that you or others have recently edited. The home
page also provides a way to communicate with the rest of your team, via 'announcements'.Wiki Items
You can store and share your information as Swirrl wiki-items. Our powerful word processor-style editor lets you easily format and style your text, insert images and link to other pages both inside and outside Swirrl.
Swirrl wiki-items can belong to categories, and you can assign attributes (i.e. characteristics or properties) to them.
For example, an item about a particular member of staff might be in the 'people' or 'staff' category, and have attributes
such as paygrade, department etc.
The description and attributes of each individual item can also be exported as html if you want to back them up, or export them to another system.
File Sharing
You can upload files into your Swirrl wiki. These could be images to embed in a wiki-item, documents, presentations or any other files related to your work.
Files in Swirrl are assigned permissions, just like wiki-items, so you can easily decide who to share them with.
Search and Tags
Swirrl's search facilities make it easy to locate your information quickly.
You can also organize and explore your items and files using 'tags'.
Administration and Permissions
Wiki administrators can add, edit and delete users and groups of users.
Swirrl's permission system allows fine-grained access control for both viewing and editing:
allow just individual users or groups, everyone in the wiki, or publish to the whole internet.
You have full control, and it's easy to see what the current settings are.
Version History and Reverting
Every time a wiki-item in Swirrl is saved, a new version is created. You can see who changed what when,
and you can revert back to old versions if you change your mind about an edit.