RAMADDA uses wiki text in a number of ways. You can create Wiki Page entries, you can style any entry using wiki text and you can also add in a Page Style metadata element that allows you to define the style used for a whole collection of entries.

One of the entry types that RAMADDA provides is a Wiki Page entry. You create a new Wiki Page just like you create any entry - in a folder that you have create privileges for go to File->New Entry menu. In the form select "Wiki Page" to go to the Wiki Page create form: See the help on Wiki Text for more information on how to use wiki text markup.

The default HTML view of a Wiki Page entry looks like:

The "Details" link in the upper right will show the default html view of this page.

The "Wiki History" link in the top tabs will take you to the history page for the entry.

This shows the history of past edits and allows you to view and compare versions and to revert back to past versions. You can use the wiki text display capabilities to customize the default HTML view of any other entry or folder types. If the description of the entry begins with "<wiki>" then we treat the description as wiki text and process it to create the default HTML view. This allows you to override the default html display and come up with your own display. For example, here is Unidata's 2009 User's Workshop page and here is the desciption of that page:

<wiki>
<center>
<h3>
Welcome to the RAMADDA area for the Spring 2009 User's Workshop.<br>Using Operational and Experimental Observations in Geoscience Education<br>
June 8th-12th</h3>
</center>

<table width="100%"><tr valign="top"><td>

{{tree title="Links"}}
</td><td>
<img src="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/photos/2006userwkshp/collage.jpg" width="500">
</td></tr></table>

Presentation Schedule:
{{import entry="075c24ad-9078-4f3f-8a96-1866668a449b" output="calendar.calendar" }}

In this case we use html and the import tags to come up with the page layout.