A Tour of Swirrl
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Your account'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 Items. Our powerful word processor-style editor lets you easily add rich descriptions to your items.
It's also simple to link to other pages both inside and outside Swirrl.
Items can belong to categories, and you can assign attributes (i.e. characteristics or properties) to items.
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.
You can create multiple items at once, by importing from a spreadsheet file on your computer or by typing data into our spreadsheet-style grid editor.
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 account. These could be images to embed in a item, documents, presentations or any other files related to your work.
Files in Swirrl are assigned permissions, just like 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'.
Account 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 an 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.
Account Home
Your account'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'.Items
You can store and share your information as Swirrl Items. Our powerful word processor-style editor lets you easily add rich descriptions to your items.
It's also simple to link to other pages both inside and outside Swirrl.
Items can belong to categories, and you can assign attributes (i.e. characteristics or properties) to items.
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.
Import and Export
You can create multiple items at once, by importing from a spreadsheet file on your computer or by typing data into our spreadsheet-style grid editor.
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 account. These could be images to embed in a item, documents, presentations or any other files related to your work.
Files in Swirrl are assigned permissions, just like 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
Account 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.
Versions
Every time an 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.