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By default, some links are provided as entry points to the wiki. Wiki administrators can deactivate these links in the configuration manager if needed. In addition, you can also add new links below the entrypoints (admin permissions required). Please note that no hierarchical links can be created. Therefore, it makes sense to mainly set up links to the most important topics and to portal pages that contain additional links or page lists.

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Deactivating entrypoint links

In a new wiki, some standard links are displayed under the heading "Entrypoints." These may vary depending on the BlueSpice version and can be enabled or disabled via the configuration manager menu item Skinning.

Choosing a menu type

In the configuration manager, you can choose between four menu settings:

MediaWiki sidebar: A simple list of links to wiki pages (often to portal pages). A hierarchical navigation structure is not supported.
Namespace main page list: Automatically creates links to all pages in the wiki using the syntax namespace prefix:mainpage (e.g., QM:mainpage).
Subpage tree: Useful in a wiki that primarily structures pages using subpages.
Enhanced MediaWiki sidebar: A list of links to wiki pages. A hierarchical navigation structure is supported. Pages can be displayed with their subpage structure expanded.

Editing the main navigation

To open the menu editor:

Click Edit sidebar at the bottom of the navigation menu. If the page does not exist yet, you will see a notice on the page.

Mediawiki sidebar

Visual menu editor is available from BlueSpice 4.2.

To add a new menu header using the menu editor:

Click Add new element to create a new menu header.
Add a new menu heading
Enter the text for your menu header. In a multilingual wiki, you can also enter a message key.
Enter a heading name
Click Done.

To add links:

Select Add new subitem from the dropdown menu of the menu header.
add a link as a new subitem
Enter the page name as the link target and the label that you want to show:
enter link info
Click Done.
Repeat steps 1-3.
Click Save changes.

Note:If you use the parser function {{#ifingroup:... to display navigation elements in the source code, you must always edit the main navigation in the source code. In visual editing mode, saving removes any parser function or semantic queries.

Source edit mode

To add new links:

Change to source editing mode.
Create one or more navigation links (with or without section heading). The following example shows a link to the page "Company" with the label "Our company" and an external link to the BlueSpice website with the label "Website". The links are grouped together under the section heading "Quicklinks":
```
*Quicklinks
**Company|Our company
**https//www.bluespice.com/de|Website
```
Save the page. The links are now shown in the main navigation.

Link labels may collide with system messages. If this is the case, simply append the HTML-code for an empty space to the description:

**Portal|Portal&#160;

Enhanced MediaWiki sidebar

If you have enabled "Enhanced MediaWiki sidebar" in the configuration manager, you can create a hierarchical menu. Here, you edit the MediaWiki:Sidebar.json page. It has the basic functionality of the standard MediaWiki sidebar. But it also distinguishes between the following subelements (=node types):

Internal Link

Simply specify a link to a wiki page with an additional link label. Both the page name and label can be created using a parser function.

External Link

Identical to an internal link, but you must specify a full URL to an external website.

Subpage tree

You can specify the name of a page that has one or more sub-page levels. You can set the depth to 6 levels, with the parent page being the first level. This means that if you want to display the first level of the subpages, you would choose a depth of 2.

It is not possible to use the same label multiple times in different subpage trees, as this will break the display of the subpages.

It is not possible to change the node type (=element type) after creation. Instead, create a new element as needed and delete the unwanted element.

Visibility for groups

You can also restrict the visibility of a menu item to specific wiki groups. Enter a comma-separated list of existing wiki groups in the "Show for groups" field.

CSS classes

You can also apply CSS classes to any element to get custom style options. The styles must be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css (knowledge of CSS required).

Additional customizations

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