12 Dec
2016
12 Dec
'16
9:23 a.m.
Hi Chetan,
On 12 Dec 2016, at 05:46, Chetan Kumar
<chetankumar.iisc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello XWiki developers,
I would like to know if there’s any in-built feature in XWiki that can
allow us to show a user’s page-edit history.
I am aware of the activity-stream application. However, it only shows
recent changes. Our requirement is that a user, say Joe, is able to see his
entire edit history (say from past two years) in the form of a list where
each item in the list shows the page-title, timestamp of the edit, and any
‘version summary’ he might have entered for that edit. The list should
display as paginated if it has more than 20 results. The other requirement
is that this application has to be performant as we can expect a few
hundred people to access their contribution-history every hour.
Is there something already built into XWiki that can give us this
information? Or will we have to build a new application to return this data.
The closest is the Activity Stream (AS) for a user:
{{activitystream user=“<reference of user>”/}}
As you say the default is to display only a few entries (20 by default). However there’s a
macro parameter to control this (see
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Activity+Macro).
Now the AS is missing some features to do what you wish:
* “Show more” button, http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9896
* Provide filtering: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-6698
* Very very slow ATM, needs to be rewritten with performance in mind
So indeed right now the AS Macro is not a good choice.
However you could use the AS API and build your own UI from it:
http://bit.ly/2hkJZmk
Note that this feature would be an interesting generic feature that would benefit from
being contributed to xwiki-contrib! :) (see http://contrib.xwiki.org).
Thanks
-Vincent
Thank you for your help,
Chetan