Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Add a new type of blog (Isolated blog)

Hello, After a discussion with Vincent and Denis, we've concluded that the actual implementation is an unfinished state of multi-blogs feature, and that our isolated blog proposal is just a continuation of it. Actually the blog application propose 2 types of blogs, global and local, the only global blog is installed by default with xwiki on the '*Blog*' space. Only local blogs can be created using the blog application UI. To finish the implementation of the multi-blogs feature, we want to remove the notion of blog type, which does not have much meaning in the current implementation. All blogs will therefore be isolated as explained in the initial proposal above, and the default Blog space will contain a blog like any other. Displaying blog posts from different spaces into a single blog require the blogs to share the same categories, which is opposed to the multi-blog feature initially envision by XWIKI-6355. While we don't close the idea, it is a advanced UC that we will not cover immediately. To continute proper sharing of categories in existing blogs, we will add a new properties to store the reference of the space that store the categories of a given blog into the BlogClass descriptor. But, for any newly created blog, we will always set this value to a space inside that new blog, making those categories isolated for that blog, fixing XWIKI-6355. We also propose to remove the unrelated and confusing blog type selection when creating a new blog, that ask if you want it alone in its own space or mixed with other data in an existing space (default value at the moment). This choice was mainly to choose if the blog will be in WebHome page or Blog page of the space. This is no more require now that we have NS and that all blog post could be nested in a sub-space. Therefore, we want to replace the creation for with a simple Location picker, and force using unexisting space when creating a new blog. This will allow the blog application to be store in any space and also allow it to put in place the panels that goes with it. So to resume: - no more global blog type (at least for now, not closed) - no more mixed blog with other documents in the same space (unless done after the blog creation) - isolated categories per blog (XWIKI-6355) - ND adapted creation using a location picker - all panels adpated to local blog isolation The only breakage with the past will be the global blog that will no more display posts from other spaces. WDYT ? If you want more, here is the details about the envision implementation: *Changes envisions* - Remove the '*BlogType*' xproperty of the '*Blog.BlogClass*' - Introduce a new property named '*categoriesLocation'* that contains the location (space) of the blog categories. - The 'categoriesLocation' property will allow sharing categories between different blogs - By default when a new blog is created the 'categoriesLocation' property is initialized to a nested space 'Categories' under the blog local space. for example If a Blog is created in a space '*A/*' then its ' *categoriesLocation*' property wil be initialized to '*A/Categories/*' - All blog categories will be created in this nested space ' *<blogSpace>/Categories/*' - The *WebHome* page of the Categories space will be used as a management page of the blog categories, the WebHome will list all the categories of the blog and allows to edit these categories (Add, Rename, Remove ...) *Backward compatibility* Actually the default blog installed with xwiki on the 'Blog' space is a global blog, it mean that all Blog categories are created on the 'Blog' space and shared with the other local blogs. In order to not break the actual use cases we consider that: - If the 'categoriesLocation' property of a given blog is empty then the categories of the default blog will be used (Categories created on the 'Blog' space) *Changes on blog management page* - Remove the 'BlogType' field - Replace the 'Space' and 'Title' fields with a Location picker (like when you add a new wiki page). - A new blog cannot be created in an existing space, a verification will be done to check if the space is a new one. A 'BlogClass' will be added to the WebHome page of the space A WebPreferences page will be added to the blog space in order to display the blog panels *Registration in the Application Panel (Blogs entry points)* The general idea is to have a dashboard page that lists all the blogs available in the wiki. A separate proposal will be done for the blogs dashboard page. Thanks, Mohamed On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Mohamed Boussaa &lt;mohamed.boussaa(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: