Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Restrict Menu Application to the main wiki

We also have the FARM use case, where menus in theory should be able to be defined in subwikis and be independent of the main wiki. On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 2:49 PM Marius Dumitru Florea < mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: > Note that XS has the Menu Application installed only on the main wiki ATM. > Also, the reason I used GLOBAL visibility for the Menu macro is because I > wanted to support global menus (defined on the main wiki and visible > everywhere). Installing the Menu Application both on the main wiki and on a > subwiki can lead to unexpected results so I would not recommend it. The > question is whether installing the Menu Application only on the subwiki is > a valid use case or not. > > We could also restrict the installation to the main wiki *only until* we > add support for GLOBAL to WIKI visibility fallback for translations. +1 for > this. > > Thanks, > Marius > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Costi Listar &lt;listarcosti(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > > > While working on https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14037, I noticed > > that the Menu Macro has GLOBAL visibility. This implies that Menu > > Translations should have GLOBAL visibility as well. But this will cause > > issues if you install the Menu Application on a sub-wiki because there is > > no fallback yet from GLOBAL visibility to WIKI in case of translations. > > In order to avoid this problem, I propose to restrict the installation > of > > the Menu Application to the main wiki. > > > > I am +1 for this. > > > > Thanks, > > Costi > > >