13 Sep
2011
13 Sep
'11
10:36 p.m.
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:
a
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 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
you
> 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 stated
need
>> 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 or not.
issue
>>> 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
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
want
>>> 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 to
>> change
>>>>> this, the same goes for the displayed search results.
>>>>> You can also predefine if endusers should see the Comment box
at
the
feel
>>> 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 free to
xwiki
>>> 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
>>>>>> configuration, at least
for end users. The default xwiki UI
is
pretty
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>>>>>
>>>>> 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
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