What's new in the Knowledge Base for April 2021?
Welcome to the new BookStack Knowledge Base! BookStack is a brand new, open-source platform for sharing information, and we are excited to adopt it to help modernize our UCLA Knowledge Base.
What are the advantages of BookStack?
- New, modern design
- Easy to post, organize, and find content
- Open-source, continually updated software
What are some of the features of the BookStack Knowledge Base?
- More advanced organization: Pages can be sorted into books and chapters to make it easier to find or browse relevant information. When posting a page, you can sort it into the most relevant book or chapter or create a new one. We've introduced several books to make the existing pages, carried over from the original Knowledgebase, easier to browse.
- Advanced searching: Search by book, chapter, page title, page content, or tag and use the available filters to find what you're looking for quickly.
- WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor: The editor provides support for all the formatting options you expect plus link editing, media/upload management, and an integrated diagram editor, while being much easier to use than a markup language. If you want more flexibility, you can also edit the page HTML directly.
- Tags: Pages, chapters, and books can all be tagged. Tags can have both names and values.
- Permalinks: When linking to the Knowledge Base, you can link to a specific part of a page and get a link that won't break if the page is renamed or recategorized.
- Mobile-friendly: BookStack has a convenient smartphone view.
- For more information on using BookStack, see the BookStack User Documentation.
Technical Details
If you're interested in the technical stuff, you can check out the BookStack GitHub repo.