Re: [xwiki-users] groups: mailing them

Hi! Joris Dirks wrote: There is a proposal that seek exactly that! http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SendMailtoWikiUsers I've not followed these projects during 2009 and 2010, so, I don't know what is its state. The "Using Scheduler issues (groovy questions)" actually active could also apply to what you are looking for. Please, Joris, why to do you find technical/difficult the use of Watch? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but all what a user has to do is to check the Watch "star" for a given document, space, or even the whole wiki. Of course this way users must do the action: they must check the stars! But also any administrator can modify Watch lists in the WatchListClass object of any users. And they also could be modified programmatically (well, don't ask me how, please! :-) As for how to export members of a given group. I've modified slightly the CsvExportOfUsersSnippet snippet. Just change XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup with the document name of the group you want to export: {{velocity}} #if("$!{request.confirm}" == '1') #set($ok = $response.setContentType("text/csv")) #set($ok = $response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=export-users.csv")) login;firstname;lasname;email;phone #set ($sql = ", BaseObject as obj where obj.name = doc.fullName and obj.className = 'XWiki.XWikiUsers' and obj.name <> 'XWiki.XWikiUserTemplate' order by doc.name asc") #set($groupDoc = $xwiki.getDocument("XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup")) #foreach($user in $xwiki.searchDocuments($sql)) #if($groupDoc.getObject('XWiki.XWikiGroups', 'member', "$user")) #set($userDoc = $xwiki.getDocument($user)) "$userDoc.name";"$userDoc.get('first_name')";"$userDoc.get('last_name')";"$userDoc.get('email')";"$userDoc.get('office_phone')" #end #end #else * [[Download CSV list of users of group XWikiAdminGroup>>?confirm=1&xpage=plain&outputSyntax=plain]] #end {{/velocity}} As for groups membership, check this: {{velocity filter="none"}} {{html clean="false" wiki="true"}} #set($user = $xwiki.getUser()) #set($query = ", BaseObject as obj, StringProperty as prop where doc.fullName = obj.name and obj.className='XWiki.XWikiGroups' and doc.fullName <> 'XWiki.XWikiGroupTemplate' order by doc.fullName asc") #set($results=$xwiki.searchDocuments($query)) #foreach($item in $results) #if($user.isUserInGroup($item)) [[$item>>$item]]<p/> #end #end {{/html}} {{/velocity}} Now, it will be needed to combine both scripts. I think it will be great to have a selection list to choose the group we/you want to export and, concerning groups membership, I don't know how to store the result in a Velocity variable, then include it as column in the output. This must not be difficult, but I've not tried yet! Any idea about a more elegant way of doing this will be welcome! HTH, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez CTO eBioTIC. Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems