[xwiki-users] Brainstorming XWiki Favorites

[Guillaume Lerouge]

>
> Ok so I can't count, that's three reasons.


That's the benefit of iterative designs, you've been able to correct
yourself in no time ;-)


> I created a Favorites class in XWiki with three properties, Name(string),
> Link(string) and Description(textarea).
>
> I create a sheet and template  and attached the Favorites Object to the
> template.
>
> I then created a page with
>
> #set ($hql = ", BaseObject as obj where obj.name=doc.fullName
>        and obj.className='XWiki.FavoritesClass' and
> obj.name<>'XWiki.FavoritesClassTemplate'")
> #set ($favs= $xwiki.searchDocuments($hql))
> #if ($favs.size() > 0)
>  #foreach ($fav in $favs)
>    * [${fav.Name}>{$fav.Link}]
>  #end
> #else
>  #info("There are no Favorites in this wiki!")
> #end
>
> and since I had not yet created the first Favorite it showed No Favorites
> in
> this wiki.  Cool


Ok, I hadn't understood that those favorites were the same for all users, I
thought they would be user-specific, hence my previous remarks.


> Then I went back to the XWiki Favorites Class and created a new document
> and
> populated the Name Property, Link Property and Description properties and
> went back to the page with the search above...
>
> it shows the literal fav.Name in the name of the link and Link as the URI
> for the target.
>
> if $fav the FavoritesClass object?  I am guessing not.