Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceArticlePreviewCapture

What is BlueSpiceWikiExplorerBlueSpiceArticlePreviewCapture?

BlueSpiceWikiExplorer provides a special page with an article list, which can be filtered and sorted.

Where to find BlueSpiceWikiExplorer

Page captures in book overview

BlueSpiceArticlePreviewCapture provides ability to show current snapshots of wikipages to be shown as thumbnails throughout the wiki.

Where is BlueSpiceArticlePreviewCapture used?

BlueSpiceWikiExplorer provides a special page - Special:WikiExplorer, which is availble through left navigation, under Global actions tab, or by directly navigating to the page.

Choosing the sorting criteria

Sorting criteria and columns to show can be changed by clicking in the arrow icon in the header of any column of the list. Select additional columns from "Columns" menu to display additional columns.

Sorting sequence

Thumbnail snapshots of various pages are used in many places on the wiki, like: - Special:SearchCenter - to show previews of pages in search results - Recent changes flyout - Book manager flyout ...

Underlying technology

Clicking on the header of any column (not on the arrow part) will sort the values for that column. Changing the sorting order (ascending, descending) can be cycled trough by clicking on the header multiple times.

Using filters

For some content, there are some specially adapted filters available, that can be used to further sort the list. Filters can be accessed by clicking on the "arrow" icon in the column that should be filtered.

Following columns are supporting filtering:

Content	Possible filters	Sortable
Title (Page name)	starts with, ends with, contains, contains not, equals, equals not	Yes
Namespace	starts with, ends with, contains, contains not, equals, equals not	Yes
Accesses	less than, greater than, equals	Yes
Creation date	None	No
Is redirect	None	Yes
Last comment	None	Yes
Last edit date	None	No
Size	less than, greater than, equals	Yes
Last editor	None	Yes
Categories	None	No
Linked files	None	No
Linked pages	None	No
Links to this page	None	No
Assigned editors	None	Yes
Released (only visible when package Teamwork is installed)	yes, no	Yes
Release date (only visible when package Teamwork is installed)	less than, greater than, equals	Yes
New version waits for release	None	Yes

BlueSpiceArticlePreviewCapture relies on PhantomJS to render the thumbnails.

See also

Reference page for this extension.