June 2010 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

[xwiki-users] Hyperlink in Word/Excel file to Xwiki page fail to open
by Milind Kamble 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi. We are running XE-2.1.1 over Glassfish and recently one of our end users reported that when he clicked on a hyperlink in a MS-Word document that pointed to a page in our XE instance, MS-Word indicated in the status bar that "Word is preparing to go to this link" and then reports an error "Unable to open http://example.com/xwiki/bin/view.... Cannot download the information you requested". The expectation is that clicking on the click should simply dispatch the URL to the default browser. The URL of course opens without issue in all browsers. We did some research and experiments and found out that the above error only shows up for URLs that are not world-readable i.e. those that need authentication. We read through the MS-KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838028/ and believe that the Office-2003 app itself is doing/attempting to fetch the content of the URL. Does any one have a clue how to make Office2003 (Word, Excel, PPT, Visio etc.) to simply handoff the URL to the browser instead of doing anything fancier? I am posting this query on this forum because I suspect XE might also be involved in this because it must be responding to the "OPTIONS" command and participating in the MS Office Discovery Protocol. Thanks, Milind

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[xwiki-users] How to add a panel to all the spaces using the Panel Wizard
by Abel Solórzano Astorga 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi, I want to add a panel to my xwiki site using the Panel Wizard. I can add a panel to a space, but I want to add a panel to all the spaces (like the Main Navigation Panel). I know that I can add the panel to all the spaces one by one. But if I add a space I need to add the panel to the new space. Is there I way to add the panel for all the spaces. How can I do that ? Thanks, Abel

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[xwiki-users] XWiki Manager - Instance throws "Failed to initialize the XWiki context." Exception
by Jared Pearson 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Whenever I click the "Wiki Page..." menu item from the "Link" menu on the WYSIWYG editor I get an "There was an error loading the data" message displayed. Upon closer examination of the requests being made, the server is returning a 500 error with "Failed to initialize the XWiki context" with an inner exception of "The wiki server1 does not exist". I have an XEM 2.3.28624 installation with two XE instances set up using Path-based resolution. This error is occurring in both XE instances. Steps Taken 1. visit the wiki http://server1/xwiki/wiki/mywiki/view/Main/NewPage 2. click the edit link 3. click the "Link" button on the toolbar 4. click the "Wiki Page..." menu item The dialog box appears with the error message. A request was made to the URL below with a 500 response. http://server1/xwiki/resources/js/xwiki/wysiwyg/xwe/WikiService.gwtrpc Stack trace javax.servlet.ServletException: Failed to initialize the XWiki context. com.xpn.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.XWikiContextInitializationFilter.initializeXWikiContext(XWikiContextInitializationFilter.java:154) com.xpn.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.XWikiContextInitializationFilter.doFilter(XWikiContextInitializationFilter.java:85) com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavFilter.doFilter(XWikiDavFilter.java:68) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:304) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:112) root cause com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 2 in 0: The wiki server1 does not exist com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getXWiki(XWiki.java:496) com.xpn.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.XWikiContextInitializationFilter.initializeXWikiContext(XWikiContextInitializationFilter.java:140) com.xpn.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.XWikiContextInitializationFilter.doFilter(XWikiContextInitializationFilter.java:85) com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavFilter.doFilter(XWikiDavFilter.java:68) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:304) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:112)

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[xwiki-users] navigator tree
by Zuzana Zapletalova 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi xWiki users, I am quite new in using xWiki and I am very satisfied with it, but I can't solve one problem. I want to create some navigator which will have a tree structure. I found a SpaceExplorer Aplication and a source code of a tree, it works fine when I paste the code into a page, but when I paste it to a panel (because I would like to use the tree for navigation), it works but not very well. The tree isn't perfectly structured and what is worse, there is some error on the server. In Firefox there is a message: Server failed:internal error, IE: there is a message: Error on the line 81, but in a log I didn't find anything wrong. When I remove this panel everything is OK. In documentation I have read that panels use wiki syntax 1.0 maybe this is the reason why it doesn't work fine. But I don't know how to solve it. I will be very glad for any point. Thanks a lot Zuzana

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[xwiki-users] Wanted Macros
by Vincent Massol 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi XWiki lovers, If you're interested in seeing some macros developed and available for your wiki, please edit this page and add macros you'd like to see: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewMacros Thanks -Vincent

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[xwiki-users] Administrator cannot add new, cannot assign user to group...
by Radek Terber 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi all I have such problem: I have pure installation of XWiki with imported the default XAR, which is offerred after installation. When I log in ad Administrator, I cannot add new user in admin pages - i get only empty screen after click on "Add user". I cannot add user to group too - i Cant select any user. New group was created sucesfully. Any experiments with permissions (even enable all permissions for all groups/users including ungegistered) was unsuccessfull. Thanks for any pointer.

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[xwiki-users] Using XWiki to create large and structured documentation
by Radek Terber 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi all I test the XWiki, and I thing this is the best wiki software freely available this days. But I have such idea how to use XWiki to create documentation. My idea is to create similar document's structure, as Office programs allows: to have one "master" document, which collects (= includes) sub-documents, each starting with chapters with certain level (level 1 - for example). The sub-documents can (opptionally) contain next sub-documents at lowest levels. My requests for such structure are: - each documetnt MUST have it's parent - e.g. the parent is mandatory, the parent must exist ant must not be deleted until at least one child exists. The only exception with no parent is "root level document" - which could be the "space" itself (or a "section" - if anything like that exists in XWiki) - the sub-pages could be put to any place in master document - wiki should allow to combine text with sub-pages, - in each page, link to it's children should exist - in ideal case links to all children collected on single place (at top of page for example), and at place, where it is put in the document - wiki should allow to process entire such page's structure in case it creates document index or summary - index should contain headers from all included pages - it would be perfect if links between pages stay preserved in exported documents - the entire page's tree (with links to direct view/edit particular pages) should be available as quick-navigation component - the wiki could provide "complex look" (preview...) to entire such document, including content index - the wiki should allow to export entire "master" document to usuall formats (pdf, rtf...), including content index etc... - previous tree things could be created for any point of page's tree - it is not necessary to create it only for "root" page, but for every sub-page too It it possible to create this with XWiki? Thanks for responses.

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[xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Enterprise 2.4 Milestone 1 Released
by Thomas Mortagne 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 2.4 Milestone 1. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download This is first milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 2.4 version. Main changes from 2.3.1: * New Search application and administration UI * New Rendering cache * WYSIWYG improvements * New Code macro configuration * Security improvements * Performance improvements * Chart macro improvements * Lots of bugs fixes For more information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise24M1 Thanks - The XWiki dev team

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Re: [xwiki-users] WG: General installation topic
by Vincent Massol 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi Pierre, On Jun 2, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Dalluege, Pierre (extern) wrote: > Hello Vincent, > > first of all: you're doing a great job with xwiki. > > In respect to the startup logging issue: All tomcat5-subdirectories have root:tomcat rights, I also tried the java dictionaries, but it didn't work out. I even started tomcat directly in the xwiki directory (/etc/init.d/tomcat5 start), but it didn't help too. Unfortunately I have no idea, in which directory the jvm wants to write. If I could set it to a fix location (i.e. /var/log/xwiki), I probably could fix it. I attached the excerpt from the tomcat logfile. It tries to write to a file named xwiki.log in the directory from where tomcat is started. If you want to control the location of the log file, see http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Logging > In respect to the import of the initial structure I attach a screenshot. I've just tested import the default XAR in an empty xwiki and it worked fine. I've tried both in XE 2.4-SNAPSHOT and in XE 2.3 (the version you're using). Can you give us the exact steps you've followed so that we can try to reproduce it? Thanks -Vincent PS: Please use the mailing list to reply > I can provide ssh or web access - in case it saves time. > > Thank you very much for your personal investigation and support. Hopefully I may support you later. > > Best regards > > Pierre > > ________________________________ > > Von: Vincent Massol [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Di 01.06.2010 13:21 > An: XWiki Users > Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] General installation topic > > > > Hi Pierre, > > On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Dalluege, Pierre (extern) wrote: > >> Hello xwiki users, >> >> In the past (some years ago) I was using the "first timer" version of >> xwiki only, this was fine for development. >> >> Now I need to run xwiki on a more professional environment, the base is >> CentOS 5.5 (current and most recent version), including tomcat 5.5 and >> mysql 5. Tomcat starts as service and during this startup logging claims >> not to be able to create / access xwiki.log. > > You need to give permission to the user who starts tomcat to write to the location where the log file is. > >> When the xwiki application starts, everything looks nice, I even can >> change the content, but I cannot sucessfully import the default jar >> (uploadig is fine). > > I guess you meant XAR. > > What version of XE and what error do you get? > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >> So, as this is the team of users, probably most of you have fixed this >> issue. I can provide more detailed information on request, I wanted to >> keep it as short as possible. >> >> Just in case I could offer ssh access. Any ideas? >> >> Best regards >> >> Pierre

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[xwiki-users] Reset the stats
by GeLo 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hello, I use a 2.1.2 XWiki XE and the stats are activated. Is it possible to reset the counters of the Stats space ? Don't read anything on this topic in the manual. Thank you for your help. Maxime

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