11 Apr
2012
11 Apr
'12
2:23 p.m.
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Martin Evans <website(a)studenthubs.org> wrote:
Hi, I have a Cloud distribution, which means I
don't have access to the .vm
files. When I want to make a change to the behaviour of my wiki, this
causes big problems. Sometimes I can over-ride the vm file by adding in a
new TextArea field, but it's normally impossible to know where to put it.
What do you mean ? Are you looking at
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Skins ?
Is there anything unclear ?
Then there is the problem of default behaviour. If I
insert a blank
TextArea to over-ride vm behaviour, I get nothing. I need to access the vm
file to see what's currently written there before making a change. But the
vm files do not appear in the search. Does anyone have any experience of
this frustrating lack of functionality and ease of use?
You actually do have access to the .vm through your browser.
:
----------------------------------------8<----------------------------------------
Copy the original content of the menuview.vm template and paste it in
the property field named menuview.vm. If you don't have access to the
server filesystem, open the template by following
http://localhost:8080/xwiki/skins/colibri/menuview.vm
----------------------------------------8<----------------------------------------
Of course you need to replace localhost:8080 in the URL above by the
URL of your wiki.
Now, putting my XWiki-Cloud-Admin hat on, I must say that it is not
recommended to make this kind modifications in your skin. The cloud
platform is upgraded every 3 month on average. If the original VM file
has been modified in the new release your skin might be broken after
an upgrade.
--
Jean-Vincent Drean,
XWiki.