[xwiki-users] Authoring templates and design sheets not working for custom class

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Frank,

On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Frank Misa wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm really disappointed by the lack of in depth XWiki developer  
> tutorial.
> XWiki has been around for a while -- and the only good material I  
> can find is here:
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/CreatingPlugins

This is a great opportunity for you to set this right! :)

Once you understand it, could we count on you to improve the  
documentation on the xwiki.org wiki?

> The above links are the level of tutorial I'm looking for -- but  
> they don't go far/long enough....
> I've followed the FAQTutorial steps and cannot get the example to  
> work as described.
>
> I've performed all steps as described -- without error/warning --  
> but when I try to create a new custom FAQ document -- my class  
> properties (question & answer) are not being shown on the edit/ 
> creation page ?  It's just blank space with two rows of Cancel/Save- 
> Continue/Save-View etc buttons.
>
> * I'm using XWIKI: 1.1-milestone-3.3933
> * On Windows XP with Apache Tomcat 5.5.12
> * I'm using MySQL as the database - I think it's UTF8 - Server  
> version: 5.0.13-rc-nt
>
> 1) When I'm querying the database -- the tables:
>      xwikiproperties - is being populated -- but newly added  
> entries seem to have negative values for XWO_ID column.
>      xwikiobjects - is being populated -- but newly added entries  
> seem to have negative values for XWO_ID column.
>      xwikiclasses - is empty ? why ?
>
> 2) I would be very grateful to a link to some decent tutorial/ 
> documentation -- even if I have to pay for it...
> It would be great to see something along the lines of the  
> "FAQTutorial" but with more indepth look at available Velocity  
> objects/macros and discussion of how Documents/Classes/Objects/ 
> Properties are actually related....
> I can't believe this stuff isn't better documented :(

Documentation is done by the community, i.e. people like you. I agree  
it's a little bit disappointing that lots of users do not participate  
more to documentation since they get a software for free, ask a lot  
of questions and when they get their answers they don't even bother  
to reinject their knowledge into the documentation for the benefit of  
others. I hope you're not like these users! :)

I can help if you're ok to work on improving the tutorials with the  
missing information.

WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

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