10 Apr
2016
10 Apr
'16
2:11 p.m.
Hi Thibaut,
On 10 Apr 2016, at 10:41, Thibaut DEVERAUX
<thibaut.deveraux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear,
I'm looking in a way to display a Masonry style page in XWiki for blog or
application.
The masonry style (often called "grid") is something like this :
http://mariustheme.tumblr.com/
Looks a bit similar to what the Totem application does:
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/TotemApplication
// Why ?
In termes of ergonomics it show it full potential when images speak better
than text. This is why Google images and Pinterest use it.
Typical applications for XWiki could be :
- Physicial products database : the image help finding the product quicly
when not sure of the name.
- Designs database : not just an image, a design goes with some description
and data so it is usefull to link to a page.
- Physicial defects database : in industry, to quicly caracterise a defect
that appears visually on a part.
- ...
My need is for a nice looking collaborative product designs database.
This database would be one app in a Wiki that has other uses.
// The question :
What would be a simple way to make it in XWiki with a minimum coding ?
The way I’d approach it:
1) Try the totem app and see if it matches your need
2) If not, see if would make sense to include a masonry style option in the totem app
3) if not, investigate using a library like http://masonry.desandro.com/. Use a JSX to
enable it for a page. That shouldn’t take longer than 1 hour of work
4) If you want to go further, consider creation a masonry app for XWiki that would allow
creating masonry-style pages similar to what the totem app does. You could do this using
AWM as a starter place.
Thanks
-Vincent
// My current search state and ideas :
I already searched the plugin database and couldn't find someting already
build. But I could have missed something.
Then, I thinked in making an app with App Within Minuts and modifing
LiveTable.
First step would be to edit the code to display only the first attachement
as a bigguer image.
It could be a quick fix waiting for the second step, more complex, to
display the LiveTable as a masonry view. There is already existing code
that could be adapted. However this would be at the limit of my few
programming skills and then taking a lot of time.
Also I'm not sure if LiveTable can be modified on the context of one
application only (not modifiing the others applications).
- If yes, would it still be possible to use Apps Within Minutes to modify
other parts of the app, not reversing the handmade code modifications ?
- If not I gess this mean I need a more complex plugin to add a "massonery
view" option to LiveTable and another option to Apps Within Minuts to
display it by default ?
This is only a XWiki beginner ideas so maybe someone has an idea of a
simpler way to do it ?
Regards
--
Thibaut DEVERAUX
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