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Supercharge your SharePoint Wiki - Adding Columns and Creating Dynamic Tables

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SharePoint Wikis combine the easy editing and linking capabilities of a wiki with the power of SharePoint metadata, web parts, and views. This makes it seamless to find the right balance of structured and freeform information.

Here's what the out-of-the-box (OOB) Wiki looks like:

Default Wiki

Here's what a wiki with additional columns looks like:

Here's what the editing experience looks like:

Here is a wiki page with a dynamic table:

Sound interesting?  Let me show you how to do it yourself:

Get to the Wiki Pages library by clicking on "Wiki Pages" in the breadcrumb or on the Quick Launch. Then create a new column by selecting "Create Column" from the Settings menu.

Choose the settings for the new column, and repeat for each additional column.

To add the dynamic table to the page, first put the page in edit mode by selecting "Edit Page" from the Site Actions menu.  This is different than editing the page by clicking the "Edit" link in the toolbar above the Wiki content.

Now you can click on "Add a Web Part", and then select the library with the wiki pages:

This will place a default view on the page.  To edit the view, select "Modify Shared Web Part" from the web part edit menu, and then click on Edit the current view.

I hope this has been helpful!

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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2007
    PingBack from http://www.decatec.it/blogs/2007/02/26/Sharepoint+2007+Super+Wiki.aspx

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2007
    Do you know how to add comments part to wiki page, just like Confluence Wiki, or blog part in sharepoint 2007? I have created a "comments" list in my personal site, but it's quite different from the "comments" list in blog part. What's the matter? Thanks. My email address is yangxiao9901 At 126.com

  • Anonymous
    August 01, 2007
    do you know of a best practices for using a wiki in a business enviroment? Thanks in advance. david at haselton.com

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2007
    @Ashley: That's not what I want. People should add comments to a wiki page. It can not just be a column.

  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2007
    Do you know how to show Visio docs in Wiki? Not only an image but also possibility to edit the Vision doc directly? The Visio doc is stored at a standard SP doc lib

  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2008
    Is there a way to change where these additional columns are displayed on the page?  In otherwords, I would like to have an ABSTRACT show up first with a PAGE RATING below the article.   any thoughts?

  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2008
    I'd like to know if anyone ever answered yangxia's question. I'm having this same issue myself.

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    hey, I want to place the webpart zone on top of wiki content editor. my requirement is that administrator define some text on top of every wiki page. this text should not be editable for a normal user

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2008
    I did discover something tho, it might help, click on the link of the actual blog entry, then click on site actions > edit page (top right hand corner.) then click any of the add web part options ( i selected the middle one, it should bring a pop up window, at the bottom of the options for adding web parts there shoudl be a link to advanced. Click on the link the will then open advanced options to the right of your screen (scroll all the way right.) select closed web parts (should be the first option.) under it should appear the comments option. HOpe this helps.

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    Two things

  1. The exmaple here looks like the editing of a single page, how do we turn that page into a template so we do not have to manually apply that editing to each page, each and every time
  2. We'd actually like to have multiple tempates with headings and web parts of each being targeted to a particular category (e.g. company page would have different titled text area than freelancer than meeting notes and so on. Agreed, a wiki is a great and flexible way to collect information as used and found by a particular dept/org. We just want to make sure there's a slight bit of structure in order to insure consistency, continuity, etc. I'm having trouble signing in. Please email me at Mark (dot) Simchock AT AlchemyUnited (dot) com Thanks

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2008
    Is there any way to hide the columns while viewing the wiki page, but make them available while editing the page? Some metadata fields (columns) I have shouldn't appear in the regular view.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2008
    I'm also interested in finding a way to append comments below the wiki, in a blog-like fashion.

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2008
    to apend comments below the wiki page, use the process described in the article. when you are ready to add a column, go to the settings page in your wiki and select "Add from existing..." then select the predefined column called "Append-only comments".

  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2008
    Hello, I have a webpage with two columns. In one of those columns I want a wiki page. Is it possible? I just seem to get wiki pages 'full screen'.

  • Anonymous
    June 25, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2008
    Tom Johnson: You can hide custom columns. You must edit this file C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATEDocumentTemplateswkpstd.aspx. It's the template of wiki page. You can comment this entire section. Or you can add columns, which you want to hide, in ExcludeFields property. <TABLE class="ms-formtable" border=0 cellpadding=0 id="formTbl" cellspacing=0 width=100%>    <SharePoint:ListFieldIterator ControlMode="Display" TemplateName="WideFieldListIterator" ExcludeFields="FileLeafRef;#WikiField" runat="server"/> </TABLE>

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2008
    Hi We have released a MOSS 2007 add-on called "Wiki Plus". This addon provides all missing classcal wiki features as a part of standard SharePoint deployment (using Fetures, site definition, content types, field types and web parts - ALL standard MOSS enhancements). Some of the features we added are:

  • Support for standard Wiki markup language
  • Improved content editing capabilities
  • Complete taxonomy solution (Web 2.0 tagging /  Hierarchical categories)
  • Content rating (5 stars)
  • Support for RSS feeds / Alerts / subscriptions on wiki pages
  • Content lifecycle management
  • Support for discussions on Wiki pages
  • Advanced reporting
  • Wiki content templates
  • Enable adding images and file attachments to wiki pages - the easy way!
  • Table of contents
  • True SharePoint integration - it's all standard SharePoint behind the scenes - No separate maintenance costs! You can check it out by downloading a 30-days evaluation version: http://www.kwizcom.com/ProductPage.asp?ProductID=524&ProductSubNodeID=525

  • Anonymous
    December 29, 2008
    @Tom Johnson and strainer: Rather than modify wkpstd.aspx, I suggest using the ShowInDisplayForm property on your custom column. http://solutionizing.net/2008/12/29/hiding-wiki-library-custom-columns/

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2009
    Direkter Download: SPPD-112-2009-02-20 Feedback: sharepointpodcast (at) gmail.com Veranstaltungen SharePointConvention

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2009
    Direkter Download: SPPD-112-2009-02-20 Feedback: sharepointpodcast (at) gmail.com Veranstaltungen SharePointConvention

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    How can we move the wiki pages between 2 libraries or can we move the wiki pages to different site?

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2009
    SharePoint und Wiki – ein immer wieder heiß diskutiertes Thema, wenn es um Enterprise 2.0 und die richtige

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2009
    All the pictures get smaller when you click them instead of showing full size as expected.

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2010
    I need to build a Intranet Wiki for my small department. Is it possible to add an attachment when a new wiki is added to the wiki site?

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2010
    I'm curious what Editting permissions are needed on Enterprise MOSS 2010 to enable these features.  I am building a Wiki on my corporate site and Edit Page does not give me any options for adding Web Parts or columns...

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2010
    I'm curious what Editting permissions are needed on Enterprise MOSS 2010 to enable these features.  I am building a Wiki on my corporate site and Edit Page does not give me any options for adding Web Parts or columns...

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2010
    I'm curious what Editting permissions are needed on Enterprise MOSS 2010 to enable these features.  I am building a Wiki on my corporate site and Edit Page does not give me any options for adding Web Parts or columns...

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2011
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2012
    Realy nice added functionality! Thanks alot