August 2008 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

[xwiki-users] Treeview problem
by Collins, Michael D 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi We recently changed our configuration so that mySQL was used to house our data. Prior to this change treeview was showing all spaces and pages in alphabetical order. Now, the pages are still shown in alphabetical order, but the spaces are not. In fact their order seems to change! I believe I have the most up to date treeview code, though I am now beginning to think that the previous sorting was co-incidental. Is there code for a sorted treeview? Or is it a case of configuring something now we are using mySQL. I confess this is not an area of my expertise! We are using the latest version of XWiki, downloaded last week. Further to this, we also used to have the simple foreach($subdoc...code on each landing page per space so that all pages within that space were listed at the top. Again, this used to be in alphabetical order. It no longer is after this migration. I have managed to get around that by using a query (as per documentation), and this has put things back to how they were. Regards Michael This e-mail message is intended for the above named recipient(s) only. It may contain confidential information that is privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail by error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and deleting the message including any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance.

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[xwiki-users] How to generate the validation email
by lixinhe 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi ,all We are using xwiki-enterprise-1.6 which have the option to send the validation email to the person who registers new. But when I login with the created ID it is giving me an error message 'Your account is not yet active, because your email has not yet been confirmed'. Do you have an idea on how to confirm the email sent while registration ? Some people said that the email sent by XWiki is supposed to contain a link, on which the user is supposed to click on. So ,how to set the configuration to generate this email? Thanks .

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[xwiki-users] alternative to wyisywg editor
by Gabriela Radu 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Hello, with an older problem.... i was thinking to use the fckeditor instead of the wysiwyg as a temporary sollution. looking in the vm files at xwiki, i think it's gonna be a tricky one. did anyone tried this one?

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Re: [xwiki-users] [Request for Feedback] New WYSIWYG Editor Inter face
by goldring, richard 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Guillaume, Looks good. A few points: * Tables - is it possible to make tables WYSIWYG editable so the user can grab a table, row, column, cell and resize them. For layout of wiki pages it would make it much quicker and easier to create great looking wiki pages. - is it possible to control the formatting of tables to make them invisible (for layout purposes). * Frames - is it possible to add frames to display others web pages or wiki pages on the wiki page being edited? Keep on coding. All the best, Richard -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: 21 August 2008 18:06 To: users(a)xwiki.org Subject: [xwiki-users] [Request for Feedback] New WYSIWYG Editor Interface Hi fellow XWiki users, I've spent the last couple weeks working on designing mockups for the new version of the WYSIWYG editor that's currently in the works. I've put all my work on this page : http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface and I'd be glad to gather initial user feedback on these mockups. Please tell us what you think about them now so that we can improve the screens before implementation begins at full speed. Specifically, I'm wondering about the following things : - Can the text be improved to make things easier to understand ? If so, where ? - Are some features harder to reach than they should ? - Are dialog boxes & trays consistent with user models of how edition software usually behaves ? - Do you see anything that will make an user wonder what's happening and where he / she should click next ? Please note that the colors are only indicative at this stage - a designer will improve my work before we get to the final stage. I'll try incorporate your feedback soon and will let you know how the subseuent development goes. Thanks in advance, Guillaume -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://blog.xwiki.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Thales UK Ltd (Wells) DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. We may monitor all e-mail communications through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on +44 (0) 1749 672081 and delete it and all copies from your system. We accept no responsibility for changes to any e-mail which occur after it has been sent. Attachments to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your system. We therefore recommend you virus-check all attachments before opening. A business of Thales UK Ltd. Registered Office: 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2NX Registered in England No. 868273

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[xwiki-users] A lot of Problems with XWIKI
by Goh Chong Leng, Jenson 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

We have managed to setup xwiki to work in our UNIX environment. However, we faced a lot of problems with xwiki during runtime. (1) Running xwiki in tomcat - The java process of tomcat can never be shutdown properly without using 'hard' killing, i.e. kill -HUP <process id>. I have searched the web and found that the cause is actually quartz library holding on to a process and thus preventing the tomcat jvm from shutting down. See here http://jira.opensymphony.com/browse/QUARTZ-204 . The problem is upgrading quartz to 1.6 doesn't resolve the problem and attempting to update the two properties as recommended into the quartz.properties file will cause tomcat startup failure. This is quite frustrating, so any input on how to resolve this problem is much appreciated. Of course, the main motivation for this is to ensure proper startup and shutdown so that this process can be automated. If we have to manually execute 'kill', the automation of this tomcat process will be problematic. (2) Everytime after a fresh restart of tomcat, when I hit the first page of my installed xwiki, I almost always get a connection reset error. But the second hit will be ok. I wonder why? Any answers to this? (3) The WYSIWYG support is a nightmare. Everytime after an edit (even a mere clicking on the WYSIWYG link without edit will cause similar problems), all the formatting that used to work suddenly don't and user have to manually reformat it. How to make WYSIWYG rendering consistent? (4) Customization of user registration field - we spend hours trying to figure out how to customize the fields which we would like to have in our registration page. Only managed to get the attributes added into the XWiki.XWikiUsers object. But how to link this to stats/user profile edit page? Any ideas? Also it seem like after an attribute is added to the XWikiUsers object, it can't be removed. Any ideas on how to remove it? Documentation on customization of user registration page is just a one liner which is totally useless to anyone who want to customize it. It should be improved. (5) When using Oracle as backend, search functions cannot work. Exception like this occurred when user perform search: Exception while searching documents with sql from VisitStats as obj where obj.cookie=? and obj.endDate > ? order by obj.endDate desc Wrapped Exception: could not execute query Any way to get this search function working? (6) Every now and then, log file will throws exceptions like this: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected - got CLOB Any idea what is the cause of it and how to resolve it? All in all, xwiki presents a great opportunity that meets many organization knowledge management needs (esp. in my organization). But until all these problems are being resolved, I am amazed by the large number of user web sites that used xwiki in a production environment. In my limited experience with xwiki thus far (closed to 3 months of working on it), the support requirements of xwiki would be such a big problems that it will make anyone think twice to adopt it as enterprise knowledge management system. I certainly is reconsidering other wiki consequently of all these problems. My company uses mediawiki as well. While don't have the nice authentications and authorizations features like xwiki (which we like to have), it is extremely stable and easy to use. --- Jenson GOH (Mr) :: Manager (IT), CORS, Registrar's Office. Resident Fellow, King Edward VII Hall :: National University of Singapore :: University Hall, Tan Chin Tuan Wing, UHT #03-03, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road Singapore 119077 :: 65-6516 2268 (DID) :: 65-9025 9342 (HP) :: 65-6776 3980 (Fax) :: jensongoh(a)nus.edu.sg <mailto:[email protected]> (E), kehgcl(a)nus.edu.sg <mailto:[email protected]> (E) :: www.nus.edu.sg (W), kevii.nus.edu.sg (W) :: Company Registration No: 200604346E Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.

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[xwiki-users] [Help Needed] XE 1.6M1 available for testing
by Vincent Massol 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi everyone, Jean-Vincent has mostly finished the release (except the part about uploading everything on objectweb + updating xwiki.org - He had to leave for a marriage, Thomas Mortagne's marriage! Congratulations Thomas!). However the files are released in our maven repository. We would like the maximum number of people to test it to tell us about any problem there is so that we can fix before the 1.6M2 release which is planned in 10 days. Also please test the new WYSIWYG editor and the new rendering (and new XWiki Syntax 2.0). See all details on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise16M1 The downloads are available on: * XE WAR: http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/com/xpn/xwiki/products/xwiki-enterprise-web… * XE Zip: http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/com/xpn/xwiki/products/xwiki-enterprise-hsq… * XE XAR: http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/com/xpn/xwiki/products/xwiki-enterprise-wik… * XE Installer (Jar): http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/com/xpn/xwiki/products/xwiki-enterprise-ins… * XE Installer (Windows): http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/com/xpn/xwiki/products/xwiki-enterprise-ins… Thanks for your help -Vincent, on behalf of the whole XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-users] macros
by Gabriela Radu 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

hello if i wanna create a simple macro that shows an internal space link is this correct? does not work: //mymacros.vm #macro(includeForm $doc.web) #set($space = $doc.web) <a href="$!xwiki.getURL("${space}.WebHome")" title="Home" rel="home">Project Home Page</a> #end //calling into the page #template("mymacros.vm") thanks

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[xwiki-users] Internationalization Document Bundles
by syam_kg 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi Inside the 'Programming' section of the admin preferences there is a field namely 'Internationalization Document Bundles'. Could anybody please tell me what is the purpose of this filed ? Regards Syam -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Internationalization-Document-Bundles-tp791364p791364.… Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-users] Translation in inline mode
by syam_kg 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi I have a document Main.Doc1 and it is in English. I want to translate it to German using the url 'http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/inline/Main/Doc1?language=de' . But when i save it, german version is not getting created. I am able to do it in edit mode. Is there any way to acheive this in the inline mode? Regards Syam -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Translation-in-inline-mode-tp791324p791324.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[xwiki-users] new user - skinning advice
by Edward Laptop 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Dear All I have been given a design to create using Xwiki, and sadly am on a tight time scale. I have skinned various other applications, like stores, joolma, pmkwiki etc but this will be my first launch into Xwiki. I would be really thankful if someone could take a look at the design and then advise me on which of the skins, albatros or toucan, I would be best to "Copy and alter" - assuming that this is the best approach. THanks in advance Edward

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