Re: [xwiki-users] Adding a wizard to an app

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <jeremie.bousquet(a)gmail.com> wrote: Distribution Wizard and App Within Minutes Wizard are implemented quite differently. They look somehow similar but that is just CSS and you can easily reuse that by including the right stylesheet and using the expected CSS classes and HTML structure. The Distribution Wizard has its controller (the code responsible for knowing the next step) written in Java and it is pretty specific. Each step is written in a template on the file system using wiki syntax. The controller is exposed as a script service so that each step can say "I'm done, move to the next one". In App Within Minutes Wizard there is no distinct controller. Each step knows its next step. All steps are written in wiki pages (sheets) and each step produces (at least) one wiki page. So when you are on step N you are in fact editing in Inline Form edit mode the page that is going to be produced by step N using the (edit) sheet associated with step N. The flow is this: each step displays an HTML form that is submitted to the same page, so on submit each step handles its data (creates some pages, modifies others etc.) and then redirects to the next step. Obviously the last step redirects to some result/view page. So neither the Distribution Wizard nor the App Within Minutes Wizard use a generic / reusable wizard. If the relation between the steps is complex (possibly with ramifications) then it's better to follow the Distribution Wizard approach with a distinct controller. Otherwise, if you have just a linear static list of steps then the App Within Minutes approach is best and it is quite easy to implement. Hope this helps, Marius