March 2007 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

Creating my own skin
by Antonio Goncalves 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hi everybody, I've started using xWiki a few weeks ago and now I want to make it look the way I want. So I'm trying to create my own skin. I read the Admin guide<http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Skins>about it, plus other mails but I have to say it's not an easy task. I don't really know where to start because I don't understand all the css files. xwiki10b1 has 23 css files but I think only 11 are used. Am I right ( style.css; elements.css; classes.css; xwiki.css; wiki.css; page.css; rss.css; screenlayout.css; microformats.css; presentation.css; colorsblack.css;) ? If yes, what are the other ones used for (chw.css, colorsblue.css, customcoloes.css, style1.css...) ? Why is page.css empty, is it the one to fill ? In other words, which css should I change if I want another layout, another font, colours.... Thanks for you help, Antonio

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export/import Errors & Questions
by Dennis Rasey 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

I'm using 1.0-beta-5.2310, using the stand-alone install. The question: Is there a way to export (then import into another installation of XWiki), a particular space? The errors: I'm also having difficulty doing a "normal" import (which I assume includes the entire wiki), from one installation into another. I see the following exceptions after uploading an export file from install #1, and trying to import it into install #2. -Dennis =========================== 14:38:02,778 WARN P1-13 http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?action=getPackageInfos&… XWikiAction:execute:188 - Uncaught exception: Error number 0 in 11: Uncaught exception Wrapped Exception: Lexical error at line 1, column 1. Encountered: "[" (91), after : "" com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 0 in 11: Uncaught exception Wrapped Exception: Lexical error at line 1, column 1. Encountered: "[" (91), after : "" at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:165) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:596) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:428) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:830) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:121) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:821) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:471) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:568) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1565) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:633) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1517) at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:954) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:816) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:983) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:833) at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534) Wrapped Exception: org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 1. Encountered: "[" (91), after : "" at org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.ArchiveParserTokenManager.getNextToken(ArchiveParserTokenManager.java:968) at org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.ArchiveParser.jj_consume_token(ArchiveParser.java:543) at org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.ArchiveParser.head(ArchiveParser.java:166) at org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.ArchiveParser.admin(ArchiveParser.java:107) at org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.ArchiveParser.archive(ArchiveParser.java:79) at org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.ArchiveParser.load(ArchiveParser.java:54) at org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs.Archive.<init>(Archive.java:274) at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiAttachmentArchive.setArchive(XWikiAttachmentArchive.java:92) at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiAttachment.setArchive(XWikiAttachment.java:398) at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiAttachment.fromXML(XWikiAttachment.java:349) at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument.fromXML(XWikiDocument.java:2216) at com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.packaging.Package.readFromXML(Package.java:649) at com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.packaging.Package.Import(Package.java:347) at com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.packaging.PackageAPI.Import(PackageAPI.java:167) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.ImportAction.render(ImportAction.java:46) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:150) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:596) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:428) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:830) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:121) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplicationHandler.java:821) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:471) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:568) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1565) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:633) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1517) at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:954) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:816) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:983) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:833) at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534) 14:38:02,869 ERROR P1-13 http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?action=getPackageInfos&… SimpleLog4JLogSystem:logVelocityMessage:154 - Left side ($!hidecolumns) of '==' operation has null value. If a reference, it may not be in the context. Operation not possible. [line 9, column 21] 14:38:02,976 WARN P1-13 http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/import/XWiki/Import?action=getPackageInfos&… MonitorData:log:183 - MONITOR XWiki.Import: 830ms

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New login page using Spring Framework
by aram 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Hai , Is it possible for me to create a new set of Login page by creating a custom class and objects. One way i can do is by editing the login.vm but i want to place a new set of login page using spring frame work. Help me on this regard, with regards, Anandram.V anandramv(a)gmail.com

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RE: [xwiki-users] Adding Groovy add-ons..
by Weiler-Thiessen,David,SASKATOON,Engineering 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi Sergiu I would like to keep stuff in the Wiki. But when management becomes involved, politics start to cloud the optics. I work in a development shop that is trying to be Agile and still hold onto the good things in RUP particularly the Rational Tool set. In practice these are not that compatible, and unfortunately, Wiki is not winning at the moment in the mix. I did actually try the XSL-FO route in converting some Wiki documents to RTF. I was not totally happy with the results. Not sure where things broke down, but on a simple page that had mixed numbering\bulleting, i.e. <ol><li><ul>, the produced results were not very close the original wiki content. Just straight PDF output of the same pages is not exactly like the original displayed in Wiki. Granted, we are using a 0.9 version of xWiki, so maybe things are better now in 1.0. David Weiler-Thiessen Nestlé Purina PetCare phone: 306-933-0232 cell: 306-291-9770 This e-mail, its electronic document attachments, and the contents of its website linkages may contain confidential information. This information is intended solely for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately and promptly destroy the material and any accompanying attachments from your system. _____ From: Sergiu Dumitriu [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:48 AM To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Adding Groovy add-ons.. On 3/22/07, Weiler-Thiessen,David,SASKATOON,Engineering <David.WeilerThiessen(a)purina.nestle.com > wrote: Hi Brandon What are you planning to do with Scriptom/Jacob? I haven't tried yet - but was wondering if it would be a good/better way of getting Wiki content into MS Word. I work in a software development shop - and management is leery of keeping long lived important information on our Wiki. They would prefer to move stuff out into Word. We have looked at some translator tools - but nothing suits us. So far we have just done clumsy copy/paste. Would be better if we could get an automated solution that worked for us. Hi, First of all, why Word? It's a proprietary format changing from version to version. It's like saving all your important data on floppy disks for safe storage. You should at least use an open format, like OASIS Open Document. You can do a clever thing which requires no tools. - Export your wiki documents to XML. You can either make a groovy script for this, which can be run from a command line, or use the export feature in the new xwiki. - You can the process the documents as any XML file. Either make a program that uses DOM or SAX to process it, or write an XSLT stylesheet to transform it into any other XML-based document format (Open Document, DocBook or the new MS Word), or even XSL-FO to generate PDF and RTF files. - What's more, you can make an automated task for this, to be triggered once every week. Anyway, I recommend sticking to the XWiki platform, as it will get better and better with each new release. Sergiu -- http://purl.org/net/sergiu

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RE: [xwiki-users] Developer's Guide improvements ideas
by Weiler-Thiessen,David,SASKATOON,Engineering 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi Vincent This is something I would greatly appreciate being worked on. I recently tried to work on a simple app - but got stuck on the use of Classes and Objects. I was trying to model use cases. For this, it seemed like I should have a parent object, UseCase, and then two child objects UseCaseStep and UseCaseStepExtension. The children would have 1:n relations from the parent. With the limited documentation about building XWiki apps, I couldn't easily see how this could be managed. It seems like all the pieces are there to get this to work - but too much work for a newbie to figure this out on my own. David Weiler-Thiessen Nestlé Purina PetCare phone: 306-933-0232 cell: 306-291-9770 This e-mail, its electronic document attachments, and the contents of its website linkages may contain confidential information. This information is intended solely for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately and promptly destroy the material and any accompanying attachments from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:29 PM To: xwiki-dev(a)objectweb.org; xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: [xwiki-users] Developer's Guide improvements ideas Hi, I've had a discussion today with Jean-Vincent about how we should improve our Developer's Guide on xwiki.org. I'm putting the thoughts we had here as a memo for ourselves but also to let everyone know what we'll be working on. Obviously we need help so anyone interested, please chime in and start editing the pages on xwiki.org. - The Developer's Guide is actually about Developing XWiki Applications - An XWiki application is a XAR (set of XWiki pages) and/or Java plugins - Thus we need to explain how to create applications using XWiki pages and how to develop plugins Plugin Development: - We already have a guide which I think is quite good. Needs a little rework but overall good. - We need to add information about where are the Extensions Points (beginRendering, endRendering, downloadAttachment and the Notification mechanism) - Show an example of using the notification mechanism to perform an action when a page is saved for example - Add information about Plugin development best practices - How to test a plugin (unit tests + functional tests) - Class naming Page Development: - Improve the existing documentation on the following concepts: Class, Objects, Template, ClassSheet. Use diagrams for that - Add a page that lists, say, the 10 most used XWiki APIs (searching for documents, get a document object from a page name, etc). On that page, add a link to the latest Javadoc (which we need to publish - There's a jira for this) - Detailed explanation on how to create a class and the different field types + explain how form validation can be done - Explain how the Notification mechanism can be used directly from a page - Page development best practices (there's already a page about this but it needs to be improved a lot): - When to use velocity, when to use groovy, when to use Java - Where to put the different page types (classes, sheets, etc) - What prefixes to use - Query guide to write hibernate query using the XWiki database model. Explain how to use the display/search APIs too. Thanks -Vincent

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Developer's Guide improvements ideas
by Vincent Massol 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, I've had a discussion today with Jean-Vincent about how we should improve our Developer's Guide on xwiki.org. I'm putting the thoughts we had here as a memo for ourselves but also to let everyone know what we'll be working on. Obviously we need help so anyone interested, please chime in and start editing the pages on xwiki.org. - The Developer's Guide is actually about Developing XWiki Applications - An XWiki application is a XAR (set of XWiki pages) and/or Java plugins - Thus we need to explain how to create applications using XWiki pages and how to develop plugins Plugin Development: - We already have a guide which I think is quite good. Needs a little rework but overall good. - We need to add information about where are the Extensions Points (beginRendering, endRendering, downloadAttachment and the Notification mechanism) - Show an example of using the notification mechanism to perform an action when a page is saved for example - Add information about Plugin development best practices - How to test a plugin (unit tests + functional tests) - Class naming Page Development: - Improve the existing documentation on the following concepts: Class, Objects, Template, ClassSheet. Use diagrams for that - Add a page that lists, say, the 10 most used XWiki APIs (searching for documents, get a document object from a page name, etc). On that page, add a link to the latest Javadoc (which we need to publish - There's a jira for this) - Detailed explanation on how to create a class and the different field types + explain how form validation can be done - Explain how the Notification mechanism can be used directly from a page - Page development best practices (there's already a page about this but it needs to be improved a lot): - When to use velocity, when to use groovy, when to use Java - Where to put the different page types (classes, sheets, etc) - What prefixes to use - Query guide to write hibernate query using the XWiki database model. Explain how to use the display/search APIs too. Thanks -Vincent

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RE: [xwiki-users] Adding Groovy add-ons..
by Weiler-Thiessen,David,SASKATOON,Engineering 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi Brandon What are you planning to do with Scriptom/Jacob? I haven't tried yet - but was wondering if it would be a good/better way of getting Wiki content into MS Word. I work in a software development shop - and management is leery of keeping long lived important information on our Wiki. They would prefer to move stuff out into Word. We have looked at some translator tools - but nothing suits us. So far we have just done clumsy copy/paste. Would be better if we could get an automated solution that worked for us. David Weiler-Thiessen Nestlé Purina PetCare phone: 306-933-0232 cell: 306-291-9770 This e-mail, its electronic document attachments, and the contents of its website linkages may contain confidential information. This information is intended solely for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately and promptly destroy the material and any accompanying attachments from your system. _____ From: Esbach, Brandon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:34 AM To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: [xwiki-users] Adding Groovy add-ons.. Hi folks, Looking at applying some of the add-ons to Groovy to allow some extra functionality (most likely starting with Scriptom/JACob). I have some questions though: 1) As I understand it, there are some tightened security changes for XWikiBeta5 and above (not running in our test environment yet). How will this affect Xwiki going forward (eg, will this be restricted in some way from xwiki in future)? 2) Where is the standard Groovy library path for xwiki (doesn't seem to be any groovy folders under the xwiki application)?

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renameDocument backlinks
by Thomas Kliethermes 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, I may have run into a renameDocument problem with backlinks. I have a link to Main.a on Main.WebHome, and I rename document Main.a to Main.b, the link on Main.WebHome is properly updated to point to Main.b. But, if I then further rename Main.b to Main.c, the link on Main.WebHome is not re-updated to point to Main.c. However, if I edit and save Main.WebHome between the two renames, it does update the backlink the second time. I think it's because XWikiDocument.renameDocument does not save() the backlinkDocument (or I'm doing something completely wrong). Other than that Document.renameDocument seems to work great! Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Kliethermes eSupport Initiatives IBM Information Management (913) 599-7240 Fax: (913) 599-8590 http://www.ibm.com/software/data

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LDAP
by Gunter Leeb 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, In our Novell eDirectory LDAP structure we have about 2000 employees. We cannot allow ALL users in the LDAP structure to have access to XWiki. We would like to specify an LDAP group for all the users that have access to XWiki. How could we configure this? Our eDirectory allows annonymous browsing but I have not found a way to specify an LDAP group for controlling access to XWiki. With this I am not requesting the much harder problem of synchronizing LDAP groups with XWiki groups for page access rights. I am looking for a way to just control the list of users that have access to XWiki from an identity system behind LDAP. Regards, GLeeb (I have posted the problem before but now I have split up the issues to allow separate answers.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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LDAP for multiple departments
by Gunter Leeb 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, In our LDAP structure (about 2000 employees) the users that should have access to XWiki are in multiple department nodes in the LDAP structure. Thus, I cannot specify a single pattern of the kind cn={0},department=USER,department=INFORMATIK,department=1230,o=MP for authentication. How could I specify users from different departments to have access to XWiki? Can I specify multiple xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN lines that are searched for the user? My ldap configuration (XWiki 1.0B3 against mySQL): xwiki.authentication.ldap=1 xwiki.authentication.ldap.authclass=com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.LDAP.LDAPAuthServiceImpl xwiki.authentication.ldap.server=dsmaster xwiki.authentication.ldap.check_level=1 xwiki.authentication.ldap.port=389 xwiki.authentication.ldap.base_DN=department=USER,department=INFORMATIK,department=1230,o=MP xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN=cn={0},department=USER,department=INFORMATIK,department=1230,o=MP xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_pass={1} xwiki.authentication.ldap.UID_attr=uid I would like to say that XWiki runs fine against Novell eDirectory through the LDAP interface! (It was a little bit tricky to set up and it would be great if someone could write up some more detailed documentation on it. I am unfortunately no expert in this.) Regards, GLeeb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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