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

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

On 8/9/07, Frank Misa <frankmisa at hotmail.com> 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
>
> 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.

This is normal. XWO_ID can be any number, not necessarily positive or
consecutive.

>      xwikiobjects - is being populated -- but newly added entries seem to
> have negative values for XWO_ID column.

The same as above.

>      xwikiclasses - is empty ? why ?

We don't use this anymore, because the classes/properties were very
fragile at the moment, with many new properties, and it was easy to
forget to update the mapping files. Thus, all the classes are stored
in the xwikidoc table, as XML.

>
> 2) I would be very grateful to a link to some decent tutorial/documentation
> -- even if I have to pay for it...

Me too, me too... We lack documentation, and we know it, and this is
why we lose many users.

> 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 :(
>
> Hope someone can help me out...
> Thanks
> Frank
>

Sergiu
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