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How to create fisical hierarchy for the Project. I don't want to have all the text files to be in one directory. Or to create for every subdirectory a new project since it takes to mach time for setting it (files, links, rights interface ...etc:.) Logicly and visuall I can create topics with links to other topics but all the files fisically will be in one directory under the project. Please let me know if it is possible.

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-- LeszekSz - 25 Jul 2001

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You can create as many webs as you want, see the TWikiInstallationGuide how to do that. In general it is not recommended to create a new web for each little project, one web per department or bigger group is usually enough. For example at work we have a group of 100 engineers who share one web for about 25 software projects. You can organize content within the web. First of all create a hierarchical (or hyper-text) structure that organize your projects within a web, i.e.each project gets its own index page with links to discussions, documents, team list etc. Secondly, you can categorize the content to give it more structure, TWikiCategoryTable has more on that.

-- PeterThoeny - 26 Jul 2001

You forgot to mention that you can have a hierarchy of webs (or you really don't want people to rely on this? ;^). Besides, you can always have a very simple generic WebHome page for each web, that just displays all the existing topics, or something like that; and templates that clearly show the relevant project without relying on page colors. That way creating a new project is just a matter of copying some files and defining the name, not much of a set-up time there.

If the idea is to have the text files in a separate file-system directory, I guess that using sub-webs of some main project web is a viable idea, specially since cross-linking clearly shows the related project. I agree that it's not very Wiki-like, but hey, Twiki deviated from the basic Wiki some time ago by adding some extra structure, and that is probably what makes it so attractive to more structured-minded people like myself.

-- EdgarBrown - 30 Jul 2001

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