September 2011 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

[xwiki-users] WebDav
by Gerritjan Koekkoek 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

On the xwiki.org there is a feature on XWiki presented; The WebDAV feature exposes wiki content (attachments, page content) through the well-known WebDAV protocol. This allows using WebDAV clients like DAVExplorer, file browsers like the Windows Explorer (XP), the Finder (MAC) or Nautilus (Linux) to directly browse and edit wiki content just as you would do for files in your local file system. Does this feature require configuration of the server. Do I understand that by dropping photo's in a folder I could add photo's the the XWiki photoalbum although the XWiki stores all the attachments in a mySql database? We have a server on version 2.7.1 Gerritjan

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[xwiki-users] Filesystem Storage and Pictures
by lists＠yhmail.de 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hello! after ?[xwiki-users] Attachment loss after restarting tomcat? I managed to configure the paths and now the attachments seem to be there permanently. However I do encounter a new strange behavior with pictures now. When I upload a PNG ? Image and embed it into the page it is there at first when I reload the page the image is gone and the page won?t stop loading. Any other attachment (e.g. a pdf) can be loaded. Any Ideas what might be wrong? Thanks again, Stephanie

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[xwiki-users] [Community] XWiki.org Redesign Planning and call for participation
by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hi all, Some time ago we discussed [1] a proposal http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWikiOrgProposal2 about changing the way our community website (www.xwiki.org) looks like (improved homepage, improved navigation, new logo [2], new skin, community wiki [3], etc.). Since then there have been some small collaborative efforts to make this new site come true and I want to thank for their help to Sergiu Dumitriu, Marta Girdea, Jean-Vincent Drean, Raluca Stavro, Vincent Massol, Silvia Rusu, Raluca Moisa, Stefan Orzu and all the people that gave feedback. In order to speed up the process we also created a development wiki http://newxwiki.xwiki.org/ where you can log in with your xwiki.org credentials and work on the improvements you want to make. After the work is finished it will be ported to xwiki.org. This way you can experiment the way your code looks like and behaves without interfering with the live site. Also me and Silvia created a planning for the development of the new site http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWikiOrgPlanning and we have split it into 4 stages. We are currently in Stage 1 of the development. Each entry has it own link with more information/mockups/code about the feature. Also features that have been started have also a JIRA issue attached to them. We would be very happy if the community could get involved in helping us making this happen. We still need work on deciding the content for some sections, we need better design proposals for some elements and we need lots of implementation work to make everything a reality. If you want to participate you should pick something from the planning and announce it on this thread so that we know what feature is taking care of. Thank you, Caty References: [1] [Proposal] XWiki.org horizontal navigation + home page http://markmail.org/thread/tfmrludhw2yh5tcn [2] [Proposal] XWiki.org Logo Challenge - Round 2 http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/pkdd5kijpt2yqeph [3] [Proposal] XWiki.org Community Page http://markmail.org/thread/b3pctp2kepcprfaf

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[xwiki-users] AUTO: MaryEllen Coleman/Poughkeepsie/IBM is out of the office. (returning 09/20/2011)
by MaryEllen Coleman 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

I am out of the office until 09/20/2011. I need to attend to a personal issue; back on Tuesday, 9/20. Note: This is an automated response to your message "users Digest, Vol 50, Issue 22" sent on 9/18/2011 6:00:10. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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[xwiki-users] XWiki vs. cyrillics
by Haru Mamburu 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Dear developers, Recently I had been checking each and every step in XWiki cyrillic management. Brief results from last to least: 1. Office integration: no way to work with cyrillic page names http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XOFFICE-252 2. Eclipse:: no way to work with cyrillic space names http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XECLIPSE-154 3. $response.sendRedirect() gives ??? instead of cyrillic letters, so some scripts become useless, Parent Page search suggest in edit mode gives ??? instead of cyrillic http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-6955 The rest works fine, or I didn't discover it yet :-)))) As far as I understand XWiki, all these bug should live somewhere in the core, maybe somewhere else also and it's not so trivial to fix it. The question is: what are priorities in XWiki development and is it planned to make cyrillic users happy to use all XWiki features available in nearest future? Thanks a lot for understanding. Kind regards. Dmitry Bakbardin

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[xwiki-users] AUTO: Alejandro Torres Villagomez está ausente de la oficina. (regreso 21/09/2011)
by a1torres＠gigante.com.mx 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Estaré ausente de la oficina hasta el 21/09/2011. Responderé a su mensaje cuando regrese. Nota: Esta es una respuesta automática a su mensaje "users Digest, Vol 50, Issue 20" enviado el: 9/16/11 5:00:04. Esta es la única notificación que recibirá mientras esta persona está ausente.***************************************************************************************************************************************************************** La Información presentada en este mensaje no es considerada pública, por lo tanto es de uso exclusivo para el destinatario, quedando prohibida su copia, distribución, revelación. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como copias del mismo. *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************

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Re: [xwiki-users] Tag/baseline for wiki or space
by Crowd Covered 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Thanks for hint Vincent, these options are indeed possible and I considered them (didn't know that svn integration is already available). But trick is to not break usability. So that you can just switch between "tagged" content and "trunk" without a need to overwrite "trunk" by imported XAR, or update to revision from svn, or have another server for deploying tags as this will definitely provoke conflicts. For simple user that's it: switch mode, navigate in tagged/baselined content. I guess it may not even require version control system like svn underneath if we have all history in database anyway. Is it in general possible to introduce such a feature that will for all read-only actions (view, export) provide only "tagged" content? If possible how much efforts may it need? Did someone else experience a need in such a feature for a groupware (which wiki belongs to as for me)? Regards, Andrey On Sep 14, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Crowd Covered wrote: > > > Hi xwiki people, > > > > Is there a possibility to have something like tags or baselines for > complete > > wiki or particular space? What I mean is possibility to use the power of > > navigation between pages as usual with condition that all pages revision > in > > this mode would belong to this "tag" or just have modification date not > > later than specified. > > > > I have noticed "SVN Integration (make it possible to store and edit wiki > > pages in SVN)" in Survey on XWiki Features ( > > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SurveyXWikiFeatures) but this > > topic looks obsolete as last modification was done in January 2010. > > > > Background is that my team currently uses xwiki for requirements > management > > on a software project and it is vital to have baselines. Alternatively > > export to PDF/RTF could be used, but firstly it refuses to handle some of > > pages as is (we've created several classes with customized sheets), and > > secondly it would require intensive tailoring of output to get nice > laconic > > document (exclude pages that are not relevant, make headers correct > > relevantly to hierarchy, etc.) > > I see 2 options: > > * Use the existing SVN integration: > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/SVN+Application > * Export the wiki as a XAR export (it''ll you one XAR file which is a zip > file containing the full wiki which can be imported in a XWiki instance at > any time to have a running tagged documentation) when you need to tag. > > Hope it helps, > -Vincent > > > Greetz, > > Andrey Stoliarov >

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[xwiki-users] Tag/baseline for wiki or space
by Crowd Covered 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hi xwiki people, Is there a possibility to have something like tags or baselines for complete wiki or particular space? What I mean is possibility to use the power of navigation between pages as usual with condition that all pages revision in this mode would belong to this "tag" or just have modification date not later than specified. I have noticed "SVN Integration (make it possible to store and edit wiki pages in SVN)" in Survey on XWiki Features ( http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SurveyXWikiFeatures) but this topic looks obsolete as last modification was done in January 2010. Background is that my team currently uses xwiki for requirements management on a software project and it is vital to have baselines. Alternatively export to PDF/RTF could be used, but firstly it refuses to handle some of pages as is (we've created several classes with customized sheets), and secondly it would require intensive tailoring of output to get nice laconic document (exclude pages that are not relevant, make headers correct relevantly to hierarchy, etc.) Greetz, Andrey Stoliarov

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Re: [xwiki-users] minimal xwiki configuration SPACES
by Scott Serr 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

I have created a space "Engineering". I have changed the default space in xwiki.cfg to Engineering, this works. A few questions: - Is this the best way to change the default space? - Is there a way to change the default space per group? - Can I effectively trap a group of users into one space? - I can hack the theme so the logo takes you back to Engineering instead of Main, but is this the best way? Thanks, Scott ----- "Scott Serr" <serrs(a)theserrs.net> wrote: > Vincent and Wouter -- thanks for the great responses. I'll try to > take your advice and tweak just a space for normal users. > > One thing I've identified that would be nice, but I don't know how to > do... I'd like the Document Metadata panel that is below the content > panel to _not_ appear, unless someone selects Comments, Annotations, > Attachments, History, Information in the top right corner of the > content panel. I think this must be possible, the reason, why else > would there be two ways to navigate to it -- top right of content > _and_ tabs on meta panel. (I'm aware of turning off each Doc Metadata > tab from the Page Elements... but I don't want them off, just not > expanded out.) > > ^ That would simplify the look quite a bit. > > I've started some notes so I can reproduce what I'm doing at some > point: (scripting myself) > > Create a new group "Wiki Users" > Create some users as Wiki Users > Login as them to see what a non-admin sees > Probably have 2 different browsers to keep flipping back and forth > Create a new Space, one which will be the normal user's default > Keep default skin so you don't stray from supported world > Go to Administer Wiki -> Look & Feel > Presentation you can change the color of the default skin > Page Elements -> turn off left panel, turn on right panel, etc > Panel Wizard -> choose what you want in the right panel > > There are more things I'd like to do: > Backlinks has redundant pages something like " | sort | uniq" is > needed. A bug? > Add Search in right panel and remove X-WIKI header of page. Header > must be somewhere in the skin? > > Thanks guys -- I hope to help out with the "minimal config" page. > > > ----- "Vincent Massol" <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > > > Hi Guillaume, > > > > On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Guillaume Fenollar wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Finally, I think it would be great to have some available .xar > > packages to > > > download, not only one. It would give us the choice to build xwiki > > according > > > to the features we're looking for. > > > > What you're talking about is the Exension Manager ;) > > > > … which already exists and which you can try in XE 3.2 (it's missing > a > > nice UI but the features are there). We need the max # of people to > > try it out and report issue if any. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Guillaume > > > > > > 2011/9/8 Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> > > > > > >> Hi Wouter, > > >> > > >> On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Wouter de Vos wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi Vincent, > > >>> > > >>> Sounds like a good plan to me, since it will make Xwiki more > easy > > to use > > >> for > > >>> content managers with no coding background, it will lower the > > treshold > > >> for > > >>> people wanting to use xwiki. > > >>> > > >>> Xwiki is great, no question, but it offers so many possibilities > > that for > > >>> people like me who focus primarily on content management and > > usability > > >> and > > >>> are by no means PHP and JAVA geniuses, it tends to get a bit > > complicated. > > >>> > > >>> IMO approach 2) is to be preferred because of the same reason > you > > stated > > >>> allready. > > >>> Maybe we can collect ideas on stripping down over the userlist, > > sort > > >> them, > > >>> and use them to create the guide? > > >> > > >> yep that's the idea. > > >> > > >>> Is there a standard layout for guides like this allready? > > >> > > >> No but the guide could be put in the Admi Guide ultimately: > > >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/ > > >> > > >> Now the practice is to start writing this stripping down guide in > > the draft > > >> section and as soon as it contains something we judge nice enough > > to move it > > >> to the final location (AdminGuide): > > >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/ > > >> > > >>> Because then we would create it accordingly. > > >> > > >> Great. Feel free to create a page in the Draft space: > > >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/ > > >> > > >> Thanks > > >> -Vincent > > >> > > >>> Thanks for the thoughts, > > >>> > > >>> Wouter > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Vincent Massol > > <vincent(a)massol.net> > > >> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> Hi guys, > > >>>> > > >>>> It would be nice to have a guide on xwiki.org about this topic > > of > > >>>> stripping the default XE. > > >>>> > > >>>> Basically you have 2 approaches: > > >>>> 1) Don't import the default XE XAR (ie you start with an empty > > wiki, no > > >>>> pages) > > >>>> 2) Start with the default XE XAR and make modifications to it > > >>>> > > >>>> Choosing 1) or 2) really depends if 2) is close to what you > need > > or not. > > >>>> Choosing 2) is the easiest though since it's easier to remove > > things > > >> than > > >>>> to create new stuff from nothing :) > > >>>> > > >>>> If you can tell us what you don't want, we could maybe tell you > > how to > > >> turn > > >>>> them off/make them disappear. > > >>>> > > >>>> Once we figure out together how to remove stuff, would be great > > if you > > >> guys > > >>>> could start a guide on xwiki.org about how to remove stuff and > > stip > > >> down > > >>>> xwiki! > > >>>> > > >>>> Thanks > > >>>> -Vincent > > >>>> > > >>>> On Sep 8, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Wouter de Vos wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>> Hi Scott, > > >>>>> I am not aware of a "Strip down Guide" but I had the same > issue > > here. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> What I did is just simply build op a space for the endusers, > in > > which I > > >>>>> created 3 Custom Panels for navigation purposes, nothing more. > > >>>>> This you can easily do when you go to the space preferences > and > > look at > > >>>> the > > >>>>> panel wizard. > > >>>>> Here you can edit panels and place them accordingly in your > > layout. > > >>>>> You should be aware of the fact that the users go to the main > > wiki > > >>>>> (non-enduser in your case) by clicking the logo, you might > want > > to > > >> change > > >>>>> this, the same goes for the displayed search results. > > >>>>> You can also predefine if endusers should see the Comment box > at > > the > > >>>> bottom > > >>>>> of the page or not, etc. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> IMO the great thing of Xwiki is exactly this, you are in total > > control > > >> of > > >>>>> what the endusers can see and are allowed to do. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> I hope this helps a bit, if you have more questions please > feel > > free to > > >>>> let > > >>>>> me know. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Kind regards and good luck, > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Wouter > > >>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Scott Serr > > <serrs(a)theserrs.net> > > >> wrote: > > >>>>> > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> I'd like some guidance on heading towards a very minimal > xwiki > > >>>>>> configuration, at least for end users. The default xwiki UI > is > > pretty > > >>>>>> complex. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> I'd like users to see this: > > >>>>>> content (edit, print) > > >>>>>> search box > > >>>>>> minimal side bar > > >>>>>> backlinks > > >>>>>> (and not much more) > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Is there a guide on how to strip down what a normal user sees > > to the > > >>>> bare > > >>>>>> essentials? > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Thanks, > > >>>>>> Scott > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> users mailing list > > >> users(a)xwiki.org > > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Guillaume Fenollar > > > XWiki SysAdmin > > > Tel : 01.83.62.65.97 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > users mailing list > > > users(a)xwiki.org > > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > users(a)xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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[xwiki-users] Attachment loss after restarting tomcat
by lists＠yhmail.de 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hello everybody, I think I do have a severe problem. I created a new wiki and enabled file system storage as described here: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filesystem+Attachment+… As described here (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Attachments) I should be able to find the attachments in /usr/share/tomcat5.5/work/storage/xwiki/?. Unfortunately they are all saved in a temp directory: /usr/share/tomcat5.5/temp/work/storage/xwiki/Main/Test_for_upload/~this/attachments After restarting tomcat all attachments seem to be gone. What have I done wrong? Do I need to change anything in the tomcat configs? Any help is appreciated, Stephanie

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