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Extension: BlueSpiceBookshelf


Overview
Description: enables you to combine different wiki articles to create books and also to export those as a pdf documentEnables BlueSpice to manage and export hierarchical collections of articles.
State: stable Dependency: BlueSpice
Developer: HalloWelt License:

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Type: BlueSpice Category: Book
Edition: BlueSpice pro, BlueSpice Farm, BlueSpice Cloud

Features

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Description[edit | edit source]

Bookshelf is an extension of the package BlueSpice Bookmaker. Bookshelf enables you to combine different wiki articles to create books and also to export those as a pdf document.

Usage/ Features[edit | edit source]

Manage books[edit | edit source]

Click on "Manage books" in your WidgetBar and it leas you to the special page Special:BookManager, which provides an overview of all available books.
The following actions can be performed:

Button Action
Button Add.png

Add book: opens a dialogue for inserting the title of the new book.

Btn-BookCopy.png

Copy book: Copy an existing book and edit it afterwards.

Button Edit.png

Edit book: leads you to the book editor, where you can add articles to the book, delete them or change the position in the book structure with drag & drop.

Button Delete.png

Delete book: completely deletes the article collection (but not the articles).

Screenshot: Chapter navigation in the sidebar

Preferences[edit | edit source]

If you have the correct permissions, you will be able to see the link "Preferences" in the "Admin" section in the left hand navigation bar. There you will find preferences for "Bookshelf" which you can activate or deactivate:

  • enable navigation popups
  • Prepend article table of contents and headlines with book numberation
  • Supress namespace prefix of book articles in output
  • Use display title from book source on article

Permissions[edit | edit source]

The right to create a book depends on the "write" permission in the "book" namespace.

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Related topics

Bookshelf combines wiki pages to create books and also to export those pages as a PDF document.

  • Sets of different pages (chapters) can be put together individually to a book.
  • The table of contents of the book is displayed in the left navigation bar.
  • The chapters are displayed in a collapsible tree structure.
  • The book or parts of the book can be exported to PDF.

Configuration manager

Some aspects of this extension can be configured on Special:BlueSpiceConfigManager. Here, wiki administrators can:

  • prepend the article table of contents and headlines of a page with book numeration.
  • supress the namespace prefix of book articles in the PDF output.
  • apply the display title from the book source to a wiki page.

Technical Information[edit source]

This information applies to BlueSpice 3 . Technical details for BlueSpice cloud can differ in some cases.

Requirements[edit source]

  • MediaWiki: 1.31
  • BlueSpiceFoundation: 3.1

Integrates into[edit source]

  • BlueSpiceBookshelf

Special pages[edit source]

  • Bookshelf
  • BookshelfBookEditor
  • BookshelfBookManager

Permissions[edit source]

Name Description Role
bookshelf-viewspecialpage Access the special page Special:Bookshelf reader
bookshelfbookmanager-viewspecialpage Access the special page Special:BookshelfBookManager reader

Configuration[edit source]

Name Value
BookShelfDefaultCoverImage 'resources/images/assets/coverimage/dummy.png'
BookShelfShowChapterNavigationPagerAfterContent false
BookShelfShowChapterNavigationPagerBeforeContent false
BookshelfPrependPageTOCNumbers true
BookshelfSupressBookNS true
BookshelfTitleDisplayText true

User options[edit source]

Name Value
bs-bookshelf-defaultview 'gridviewpanel'

API Modules[edit source]

  • bs-bookshelf-bookstore
  • bs-bookshelf-manage
  • bs-bookshelf-mass-add-page-store
  • bs-bookshelf-page-collection-store
  • bs-bookshelf-store

Hooks[edit source]


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