Editing, saving and reverting

Before getting into the details of editing a page, it's worth being clear about the process.

On the right of each page, in normal view, there is a small menu of icons. If you are allowed to edit the page, there is a pencil-like icon at the top .

When you rest a pointer on the pencil icon,
“Edit this page [e]” pops up (for me, at least, in English).
This is where you click / press to edit the page as a whole.

When you click there, you get the editing view of the page, and you will see buttons at the bottom for “Save”, “Preview” and “Cancel”.

If you don't want to edit the page, or if you decide that what you are about to change is not quite right, you click on the “Cancel” button and you get back to the main view of the page with nothing changed.

If you want to check how your edit will appear, without committing to it, click on “Preview”: the instructions make it clear what you should do now. It just adds a preview below, so you can check: the options remain as they were for editing.

When you are happy with your edit, you click on “Save”, and what you see goes back to the normal view, with your changes in place.

As always, you can play with this in the playground.

If the page you are on has several headings on it, you will see two or more buttons like this to the right and below each section that can be edited. Hovering over that button will pop up the title of the section. If you find it easier, you can use this to edit just the section, including the heading for that section, without the rest of the page. The main edit button will still always work for the whole page.

Reverting means going back to a previous version. DokuWiki stores the previous versions of the page.