Hi,
One aspect thats driving me a little scatty - and I have to date installed XE, XEM and
Chronopolys and XW - so far only Chrono seems pretty intuitive for me to drive out the box
- is having a way for a user to see the pages they have created in some sort of hierarchy
but built into the menu of the page or the quick links section or some such for easy page
navigation and knowing where they are in the wiki.
e.g. I can see the page "breadcrumbs" allow one to move backwards to a higher
level page, but how does one move forward or see that there is a fwd page short of placing
a hyperlink to the next page on the current page or expecting users to click on
"information" tab of the current page to find its "children"
I mean in Dekiwiki this is built into it so was positively elementary so I'm
frustrated that I don't seem to be able to do this in Xwiki. What am I missing? I was
hoping the "Document index" tree could be used for this by say finding a way to
display it as part of the "Quicklinks" or similar dashlet on the dashboard, but
the script to do this doesnt appear to work for user pages I'm finding and it appears
this issue is regarded as a minor script issue by the developers, and even if it were to
work I'm guessing that being a separate page to browse to its not really what I was
hoping to see.
I can create something like this (I'll use the Xwiki terms (in parentheses) as I
understand them for what I'd like to do) and write the page names in UPPERCASE and use
some hypothetical names. Using XEM where I have created Wiki: MAIN_HOME (as the first wiki
of the farm) I would like to use and navigate something like this ito user page
hierarchy:
(Wiki)
MAIN_HOME (Wiki) --
|--Departments(Space)
|-- Planning (Page)
| --Planning projects (Page)
| -- Efficiency project (Page)
| -- Warehouse project (Page)
| -- ISO 9000 (Page)
| -- Production (Page)
| -- Downtime (Page)
| -- Utilisation (Page)
| -- ISO 14000 (Page)
| -- Finance (Page)
| Budgets (Page)
| Guidelines (Page)
| Safety (Space)
| Weekly topic (Page)
| Safety projects (Page)
| Training (Space)
| Agenda (Page)
etc
Can this type of thing be done in Xwiki or do I misunderstand something fundamental in how
to use it?
I realise the XE product is intended to be basic out the box and must be customised and
isnt a universal plug and go solution but I'm wrestling with what I thought should be
simple to achieve so I'm wondering.
I really like the way Xwiki converts pages to PDF stripping out all the Wiki clutter and
the Edit, Show print bar that hide a lot of clutter that other Wikis put and print on the
wiki page, but the Xwiki created user page navigation is less than intuitive and if
I'm struggling then the most users our side will be completely lost so I need to
resolve this aspect first if its possible.
Is there a way - a plugin maybe?
Thanks
Cheers