Creating WikiPageProperties

Wiki properties are created simply by typing a property name and a colon at the start of a line. The value is everything else on the line. Look, for example, at the top of this page. There's a property called Summary and it's got a value of WikiPageProperties are an easy way...

For properties with multiple values (e.g., Keyword), the convention is to use commas to separate the values. For example:

        Keywords: Wiki, Properties

What are WikiPageProperties used for?

• TopicTips - hovering over a topic will show the Summary property for that topic so you can have a preview of what it's about
• IndexingWikiContent - the Summary property is automatically made available to search engines indexing the wiki
• WikiNewsletters - a newsletter is defined in a wiki topic with a few fields like Topics and Subscribers
• building glossaries and other things you might want to build; then they are sliced out using the WikiBlade
• AutomaticRedirect - allows a page visitor to be redirected somewhere else
• Defining a WikiBase's properties (e.g., title, description, etc.)

What might properties be useful for someday?

• PagePropertyReferences
• A typing system for pages as objects?

Rules for property names

Property names must start with an uppercase letter or an underscore. After that, they can container upper and lowercase letters and underscores.

Multiline property values

You can create multi-line page properties like this:

 PropertyName:[ This is a very long property definition.


 It is useful to be able to do this for multiple paragraph properties
 ]

which produces:

The end of a multi-line property is marked by a single right-bracket on a line by itself.

Including properties in another page

Sometimes (as in a WikiSpec) you may want to include only a WikiPageProperty rather than the entire page (as you get with WikiIncludes). How do you do this? Use the format

  wiki://PageName#PropertyName

For example:

AbstractContentBase - (unknown topic name: AbstractContentBase)

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ExamplePropertyPage