20 Jan
2017
20 Jan
'17
4:32 p.m.
Thanks for the advice, Marius. I'm working through it.
I have discovered though that the right-click to access the menu doesn't seem to work
in Chrome (55.0.2883.87 m). It does work in Firefox (37.0.2) and in Internet Explorer
(11.0.9600.18537). Is this a known bug or abnormal behaviour? Is there a fix?
Paul Pinkerton
KnowledgeNow Project/ ACLCO
-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Marius Dumitru Florea
Sent: January-18-17 4:17 AM
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] File Management Extension
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Paul Pinkerton (ACLCO) <pinkerp(a)lao.on.ca>
wrote:
I am interested in creating an easy to navigate
document library. I
was thinking of using the File Manager Extension (as this is what it's
built
for) - but the documentation is light on some specifics.
-I am wondering if I can copy this to a new space
(currently
xwiki/bin/view/FileManager) and run multiple file libraries on the
site, each with their own permissions (space based)? When I copy the
FileManager space to a new space, I get the warning that I need to
migrate to the new structure. Will this affect anything other than
the specific space it is in?
No, it should affect only the current space. See
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-filemanager/blob/master/ui/src…
.
-Also wondering if I can add a metadata field somehow? One of the
things I liked about using a file library in SP is the ability to list
additional fields (ie. notes about why the file is important,
contents, etc...) in the grid. Is this easy to do?
Adding meta data is fairly easy, by adding new properties to the FileClass
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-filemanager/blob/master/ui/src…
. Displaying and editing this meta data directly from the File Manager UI is more complex,
but you can do it relatively easy from the "file view"
(what you see when you click on a file from the files live table), by editing FileSheet
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-filemanager/blob/master/ui/src…
.
Hope this helps,
Marius
Paul Pinkerton
ACLCO/ KnowledgeNow