Hi all,
First, I'm a total wiki newb. I've been tasked with evaluating xwiki for use
by the state agency I work for in order to determine whether or not xwiki
can meet our needs as a means to share information both internally and
externally. From my initial poking around it looks like xwiki will be fairly
easy to work with once I've had the opportunity to wrap my head around some
of the seemingly less documented pieces like the Object model and
development process.
My first task is to replace a set of existing FAQs that have been done with
static HTML files. I've worked through the FAQ tutorial but my needs are a
bit more extensive and I'm not sure exactly how to modify the example to
meet these needs. Here are the main requirements I'm needing to address:
1) Support for Categories and Sub-Categories for questions. Used for
displaying questions grouped by sub-category within each of the main
Categories.
Would this just be a matter of adding a category property to my FAQ class?
How would I then access the full list of Categories from the main space in
order to link to each set of FAQs?
2) Within each Category (I figured I'd create each main category as a new
Space) support for specifying certain users who can add new Questions and
Answers.
I think I kind of have an idea on how to do this using the user/group
frameworks. I just wanted to get an idea of whether this sort of restriction
is doable within the existing rights system.
3) Creation of global template for creating/editing and viewing FAQ entries.
This is similar to the FAQ tutorial with a main difference being the ability
to specify an existing sub-category or to create a new sub-category for the
main category the user has permission to create questions/answers for.
4) Main space that acts as a sort of jumping off point for the FAQs.
Contains links to all of the main FAQ categories and possibly some general
information about submitting new questions and such.
I figured I would create a main space and have the re-usable objects defined
in it and then have a single page that acts as the entry point to the FAQs.
Are there docs for the xwiki object model? How can I find out what
properties and methods are available on xwiki objects? Are there docs that
explain how to use velocity scripting to do custom queries to retrieve the
data to be displayed in a given page?
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Does this all seem doable in the xwiki system? Does it make sense to develop
each major category of FAQ as a Space within the wiki? I'm doing this mainly
because of the editing restrictions, is it necessary? Can someone provide a
general idea of how I might go about creating this FAQ system that allows
questions to be categorized and then fetched/displayed by
Category/Sub-Category?!?
Thanks!!
Kevin Cummings
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Hello,
I'm using XWEM 1.3 RC1 (based on XE 1.5).
I have now time to update our wikis, but I don't see recent updates of
Enterprise Manager. Is there any reason ?
Gaëtan
The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki
Eclipse 1.2 RC1.
Go grab it at http://xeclipse.xwiki.org
XWiki Eclipse 1.2 RC1 introduces several bug fixes and major
improvements such as syntax highlighting and completion, support for
objects and translations and much more.
For more information see the Release notes at:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXEclipse12RC1
Thanks
-The XWiki dev team
The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki
Enterprise 1.7.1. This is a bugfix and minor enhancements release
following XE 1.7.
Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download
WYSIWYG and Rendering 2.0 Improvements :
* You can now upload and insert image in your documents from the WYSIWYG
* You can create tables and manage them (row/columns addition and
deletion) from the WYSIWYG.
* Added support for explicit line breaks (\\) in XWiki Syntax 2.0
Important bug fixes:
* XWIKI-2988: The way to synchronize several LDAP groups with the
same XWiki group is wrong
* XWIKI-3024: XWiki authenticator load
xwiki.authentication..createuser in place of
xwiki.authentication.createuser from xwiki.cfg file
* XWIKI-3023: Timeout when trying to connect to Penrose LDAP server
* XWIKI-3010: By default the size of "ldap_group_mapping" field in
XWikiPreferences is too short
* Many WYSIWYG bugs fixed
For more information see the Release notes at:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise171
Thanks
-The XWiki dev team
Dear Friends,
This is my first ever email to the XWiki Team. Please forgive me if i
have inadvertently misused this mailing list since my understanding is
that this mailing list is to be used for posting XWiki related
technical questions and requests.
My organization would like to build Question Answer styled tree
structure in the wiki page itself. This is for the helpdesk staff who
will follow a tree based navigation while troubleshooting our client's
issues.
Eg.
Are you able to log into the system?
Yes
No
This is not related to my issue
Clicking on Yes, No or "This is not...." options would open up a tree
right beneath them with some more questions and answers.
I was able to create a navigation system based on simple html pages
using Matt Kruse's mktree.js and mktree.css plugin which can be found
on his website. However, as the number of pages grew it became evident
that a simple html editor would not be sufficient to create all those
trees.
I checked the wiki code for the XWikiTreeView on the index page.
However, that is a system that fetches documents in the space and then
presents them in tree view. My requirement is to have all the "leaves"
and nodes of a tree on the same page (probably using <li> and <ul>
tags pretty much the way Matt Kruse does). It would be a great
addition to this beautiful and highly efficient wiki that you have
created. And every helpdesk staff that i have interacted with would
like to have a tree styled navigation apart from the wiki that they
can access.
Friends, i know that wiki follows a flat format and what I am
requesting is a structured navigation. But XWiki is so much more than
just a wiki and I would reallly appreciate if anyone could suggest me
how to go about doing this.
Thank you for your time and patience.
-Dilipkumar J
Mumbai, India
