4 Mar
2009
4 Mar
'09
7:24 p.m.
roberto colferai wrote:
First of all I want say Hello to all the community.
I'm newbie of XWiki and wiki in general; I'm trying to start a enterprise
wiki and I choose XWiki after many consideration.
To create a clean and organized wiki I want give to the users the
possibility of create page starting from some template.
Previously, I use PbWiki and this platform offer some template by default,
like:
- blank template
- meeting (to schedule meetings)
- press release
- project
- to do list
and so on.
I have see the
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/HowToCreateADocumentTemplate LINK
that explain that purpose, but what I want to do is offer to the users a
choice from a list of templates to start from.
Have you some help to me?
Thank you
We're planning to do something like this in the future by default, but
not very soon.
A way to implement this now is to:
- create the templates as wiki documents
- create a redirector page that accepts two URL parameters, document
name and template name, and does a redirect with:
$response.sendRedirect($xwiki.getURL($request.documentName, 'edit',
"template=${request.templateName}"))
- create a panel with a text input field for the document name and a
select (drop down) list for choosing from the templates, which submits
these fields to the redirector page from above
The above redirect works like this:
- 'edit' will display the document in edit mode (works well for
unstructured wiki documents); you can use 'inline' for structured
(form-based) documents.
- the "template=" parameter instructs the wiki to use another document
as a template for the edited document.
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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/