Please note that the editing function is undergoing some development work so some parts of these instructions may no longer be correct. Apologies for the inconvenience and we hope to have these updated soon.

Purpose

To help the user understand the basics of editing content in a TiddlyManual.

Video introductions

• Video introduction to editing a tiddlymanual - basics of how to do it.
• Video introduction to editing conventions ("Mark-up") - how to lay out text and make it look nice.
• Adding IMAGES, DOCUMENTS or VIDEO clips - including adding DOCUMENTS that you can view and download from within a page of the manual.

Other material

See Customising your local TeamTemplate and Understanding TiddlyManual format for more technical knowledge and skills (simple, honest!) on how to add new material to your team's local version of the AMBIT manual (your "TeamTemplate")

Authority?

To edit your team's local version of the manual (your "TeamTemplate") online, you must have the right permissions and passwords (see I am authorized to edit to our local team's manual and Manualization Boundaries). Your manual must be switched to Edit mode, rather than the browsing mode.

Start editing

Once your manual is in Edit mode, rather than just seeing the X that closes the page (top right) you also get an icon of a little page with a + sign which stands for "edit the content of this page" (or you can understand this as "write a local version of this page which will sit on top of the inherited version from the original AMBIT manual"). Click this to start editing content of an existing tiddler.

You can open a brand new blank new page (Tiddler) by clicking: || (button only visible if you are in Edit mode.)

Editing the online version ("Customising")

This is called Manualization. Instructions on how to do this are at Customising your local TeamTemplate, or:

Mostly you see tiddlers in their standard "viewing" mode. When you click on Edit in the Tiddler menu (the pen icon) this opens the Tiddler up in its "editing mode"; what you see in that situation is three boxes, where you can add text:

• The top box is narrow and whatever you type in here will give you the Title of your Tiddler.
• The middle box is fatter, and is where the Text or other Content for your Tiddler goes. Certain simple EditingConventions allow you to place links, or Tags, or other stylistic additions like headings, sub headings, italics, bold, etc. It is worth understanding these to make the text you type look pleasant on teh page.
• The bottom box is narrow (like the top one) and you can add Tags (think of these as "Topic headings" under which the content of this page should sit.) You may type as many tag words in as you want, each one separated by a space. Alternatively, you can click the button "tags" which is found right underneath this tags editing box: this opens a drop-down 'pick-list' of all the existing tags in the manual; click on any of these tags and it will automatically be added to the tag box.

When you have finished editing, click 'done' on the Tiddler menu to return to the normal view.

ICR

Using the manual as an ICR is an advanced use of editing (not in use at present - September 2011) - using downloaded copies of the manual as wiki-based workbooks to record thinking about a case. The ICR function will need to be negotiated and agreed locally.

Whenever you Make a client note you are effectively editing. Or, for instance, you might wish to add additional content in the form of Our Resources Local Contacts, Local Protocols, etc, etc, or to modify the suggested interventions if the developing evidence base changes. You may wish to form new Tags to link Tiddlers around a new theme of your choosing.