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Making links in Socialtext is very simple.

To add a link to a page in the workspace, first double-click to enter editing mode. Alternatively, click the Edit button.

Type the name of the page you want to link to, and turn it into a link simply by selecting it and clicking on in the toolbar.

If you make a link to a page that doesn't exist yet, your link will appear with a dotted underline. When you click on the link, the page will be created.

How do I make a new page?

This is a list of the pages in the Socialtext Workspace Tour. Click the first one to start the tour, or you can jump into the middle by clicking on one of the other links.

1. Start here
2. What else is here?
3. Documents that people are working on
4. Conversations
5. Meeting agendas
6. Project plans
7. Lists of pages
8. How do I find my way around?
9. Advanced getting around
10. Can I change something?
11. What if I make a mistake?
12. What's the funny punctuation?
13. How do I make links?
14. How do I make a new page?
15. Congratulations! You know how to use a workspace

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Visit the dashboard and click on the New Page Button. You will see a new page to edit. Change the name of the page by editing the title in the field on top. Put the text of the page in the larger space below. Click the green Save button.

You can also create a new page by making a link on an existing page. While editing, select the text to link and click on in the toolbar. You can also put the name of the page you wish to create in square brackets, like this: [Title of New Page].

After saving, the link will appear with a dashed underline, which means the link refers to page that does not exist. Whenever you click on a dashed link, you can create the missing page.

To practice, try making a new page with your name as a title using either method.

Congratulations! You know how to use a workspace

Here's the 2-minute basic intro:

1. Edit this Page. Then type as you like.
2. You can't do any permanent damage. See "Revisions" to see revision history for a page and undo changes if needed
3. See "Recent Changes" to see what people have been adding lately
4. Create a new page by putting a page name in [square brackets] (creates a new page in this wiki site), like this: page name
5. Create a hyperlink (an external link) by placing an existing URL in <angle brackets>, like this: http://www.example.com/

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• Log the outline of an upcoming meeting or phone conference, and give the address out to participants.
• Make links out to separate pages detailing issues as needed.
• Update the agenda before the meeting, or on the fly during the meeting as new discussion points come up.

...a Workspace can also help you with project plans...

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Don't worry, you can't do any permanent damage.

Click on REVISIONS to see previous versions of a page. You can always go back to an earlier version. And you can see who changed each version of the page, and when.

Go ahead and try it here. Edit this page, save it, then click on REVISIONS

So, What's the funny punctuation?

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Again, you're looking at a page in a Socialtext Workspace. It provides a way to organize information and collaborate on the web.

What else can be in a workspace? Perhaps another way people keep track of things, say a to-do list.

Pages can contain links, as in the case of the words "Marketing Proposal" above.

A workspace can also hold documents that people are working on...

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Share information about projects and tasks with your team.

... you can use pages in a Workspace to build collections of pages...