[xwiki-users] Blog categories in 1.2rc3 broken?

[Vincent Massol]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Dean Sellers wrote:

> eeeek, straight to the source, oh well it's about time I moved on  
> from the ANSI C world :-)

:)

> let the learning curve begin, at least now I have something else to  
> get in trouble for 'wasting' my spare time on.

hehe

> I assume on the xwiki site there are guides for setting up an  
> IDE(eclipse?), downloading and building the source.

Yep, it's here:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Building

More generally speaking everything related to developing the xwiki  
software is available here:
http://dev.xwiki.org

Thanks
-Vincent

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> From: users-bounces at xwiki.org on behalf of Vincent Massol
> Sent: Mon 14/01/2008 11:00 PM
> To: XWiki Users
> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Blog categories in 1.2rc3 broken?
>
>
> Hi Dean,
>
> On Jan 14, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Dean Sellers wrote:
>
>
> 	Greetings fellow xwiki'ers,
> 	I have just installed 1.2rc3 with the default database under linux/ 
> mysql/jboss, all is now working a treat! If anyone thinks it is  
> worthwhile I can post a how-to but the instructions in the xwiki  
> uide are pretty spot on now.
>
>
> cool
>
>
> 	
> 	One issue though, the blog categories seem a little screwy, there  
> are three News, Personal and Other but they don't display very well  
> in the breadcrumbs, or the category editor in the Admin centre. Can  
> anyone point at why this might be happening? I don't mind fixing it  
> as it helps me understand how it works, but pointer as to what/why  
> would be appreciated.
>
>
> Yes it's been somewhat buggy in the display for some time now. I  
> didn't get the chance to look into it so any help here would be most  
> welcome :)
>
> The page that doesn't render nice is:
> http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/Categories
>
> This page includes the http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/CategorySheet 
>  page which uses the form macro. It seems the form macro has some  
> problems. It's  as if it generated code using the {table} macro but  
> that later doesn't get rendered.
>
> Thus you should probably check the FormMacro.java source.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
> 	
> 	
> 	To reproduce start from a fresh 1.2rc3 enterprise .war and import  
> the .xar go to Admin->Categories and you will see what I mean,  
> hopefully. I have done two seperate server builds and the get the  
> same behaviour, both jboss/mysql, I haven't tried the standalone  
> jetty install though.
> 	
> 	I am investigating xwiki as an exercise really, I do plan to deploy  
> it as a public/private site once I have worked it out and re-skinned  
> it.
> 	
> 	Thoughts, comments, hellllpppp?
> 	
> 	TIA,
> 	Dean.
>
>
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