Modifier keys are used heavily in Federated Wiki. Shift-click is one such modifier key. To use it, hold down your shift key while executing your normal click action.
In general shift-click and shift double-click provide a variation on the standard click functionality.
Open Pages at End of Lineup
To see how this works, click on the Lineup link above and then the Wiki Link link above in the usual way. See how one replaces the other?
Now try shift-click. Each page will be added to the end of the lineup.
Convert to HTML
By default paragraphs have no HTML capability. This is for a number of reasons around reusability, reader experience, and clarity of editing.
Sometimes you want to use some HTML however, and you don't want to go all the way to the bottom of the page and open up a special HTML Plugin.
As a short cut, type your paragraph along with the HTML. Hit Enter. You'll see that the HTML is still displayed as tags.
Shift-Double-Click the paragraph. It will be converted to an HTML object.
This function was introduced initially to handle the conversion of old pages that used unfilitered HTML.
Copy Item to Another Page
You saw in our Execute a Cross-Page Move Demo that you can drag items across pages.
Sometimes you might want to copy a paragraph from another page though.
To do that, hold shift down while you execute the drag action. It will look like the item is being moved, not copied, but when you refresh both pages you will see it has been copied.
Short Note on Why
Federated Wiki tries to not rely as little as possible on modes, menus, or ribbon bars for functionality. While this approach to interface is slower for the user to learn it results is speedier interaction in a very short time.