What is it?
The Top menu bar is a bar across the top of your
Desktop, that contains more advanced menus.
Where is it?
Normally this is hidden, because you don't need it for ordinary use! However, you can reveal it by selecting the
Advanced mode in the
Mode and Login panel. You need to be
logged in as a
member before you see this option.
Because it sits across the very top of your desktop you may have to scroll to the very top of the page to reveal it.
Contents
The Top menu bar reveals more advanced menus:
This is a menu provided by the web-based "hosting" site (in
BT Osmosoft) that you access this via the "target" icon (the
TiddlySpace icon) to the right. Included in this is:
- The Space menu - Referred to as "THIS SPACE" - about your wiki (members, content, etc)
- The User menu - Referred to as "YOUR ACCOUNT" - about YOU as a member of TiddlySpace.
2. STATUS, TIDDLERS, PLUGINS, BATCH, TWEAKS, IMPORT/EXPORT, SYNC
- STATUS - whether you are a member of this Space or not, etc
- TIDDLERS - is a full Index of all the content, that can be listed in different ways as well as providing another Search box.
Recent - lists all the tiddlers in this Space in Date order according to when they were last edited.
All - lists all the tiddlers in Alphabetical order
Public - lists only the tiddlers that are Public, in alphabetical order.
Private - lists only the tiddlers that are Private, in alphabetical order (note that in TiddlySpace a Tiddler can either be Private of Public, and if you have authority to edit your team's version, you can select whether a tiddler is Private of Public (in general tiddlers in a local TeamTemplate that are still "under discussion" can be designated as private, but we encourage teams to work as transparently as possible.)
Tags - lists the Tags in the manual, and how many sub-topics are tagged with this topic heading.
Spaces - lists all the Spaces included in the manual and how many tiddlers each one contains.
Missing - lists all the tiddlers that have links to them in other tiddlers, but which have not actually been written yet (a useful, if persecuting, resource for authors!)
Orphans - lists all tiddlers in manual that are not linked or tagged to any other content, and so might be seen as disconnected from the whole.
Shadows - lists all tiddlers that are present in every tiddler 'by default' - generally these have no content of interest, but adjust the look and behaviour of the wiki. In a TiddlySpace these are 'curated' elsewhere, so even if they are edited by accident, the adapted version can simply be deleted and the original will pop back up to replace it.
- PLUGINS - lists tiddlers that are designed to add functionality to the wiki, rather than content (the odd thing about TiddlyWiki is that in a single (html) file you can carry all the 'software' to make it run inside a browser, as well as all the content that the user authors.)
- BATCH - offers the chance to change the status of a whole selcted batch of tiddlers (from Provate to Public, or vice versa)
- TWEAKS - offers options for tweaking how your browser handles the tiddlywiki - not for the casual user.
- IMPORT/EXPORT - offers the registered user the opportunity to import tiddlers from another Tiddlywiki or to Download a copy! of the manual so that it is a free-standing (html) file on your local computer (or stored on a USB stick, etc). The Downloading of Tiddlymanuals is not very reliable at present as we have been focusing on getting the online performance working (and there is not a great deal of advantage of being ale to have downloadable versions right now.) However, the ability to run a tiddlymanual completely free from the internet is what offers the potential for using a tiddlymanuals as a wiki-based note-taking system, and this is in development... watch this space!
- SYNC is only relevant for a downloaded version that you then want to sync with your web-basd version - not relevant for tiddlymanuals at this stage of development!