13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
4:24 p.m.
Hi Matt,
On Aug 11, 2012, at 2:07 AM, Matt Lamoureux wrote:
Hi all,
My department is migrating from JSPwiki to Xwiki.
cool
We want to keep
things simple, so when importing your war file I did not import the sandbox
or blog spaces. That left Main, Xwiki, AppWithinMinutes, and Dashboard.
AWM is fine, but I found out the hard way that Dashboard and Xwiki both
contain parts of the software, so I can't delete or hide them. First of
all - is that accurate?
Well, XWiki works without any page at all so nothing is strictly required. It all depends
on the features you wish to use.
For example if you wish to be able to search in your wiki you'll need the search
extension installed and that extensions is made of both some JARs and some wiki pages
(Main.Search for example amongst other pages).
To be on the safe side and to make it easy you should keep everything from the default XE
XAR. Feel free to remove the Sandbox and Blog spaces if you don't use them.
In the near future this will be much simpler since we're moving everything as
extensions and you'll be able to uninstall extensions and it'll uninstall both the
jars and the pages for that extension.
Actually we'll also do the other way around: you'll be able to start with an empty
wiki and install extensions you need.
My second question is around the Main space. I
thought we could import
our files directly into that space, but apparently not - we had a page
called "Search" which appears to have overwritten the search results page.
I couldn't find any documentation about best practices when importing -
like file names to avoid, etc.
Indeed this is not very clean. The idea in the future is that each extension which have
pages will put them in its own space so as to not "pollute" the global
namespace.
Right now I'd advise to import in your own space.
Do I have to create a brand new space,
leaving Main, Dashboard and Xwiki alone? I just worry people will start
clicking around and editing or creating pages in one of those other
spaces…
Well the XWiki space is by default only viewable and you cannot edit in it so that's
safe. If you don't want people to edit in the Main space you could set its permissions
to only allow view too.
Note that you can also hide pages and if all pages of a space are hidden the space
won't appear in the list of spaces (unless the user has chosen to view hidden pages
but by default it's off).
Thanks
-Vincent
Any advice or information would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks!
- Matt L.
I really don't want people to see the other spaces (to avoid confusion). I
had thought that the main parts of Xwiki were kept in the Xwiki space, so I
did the import into Main. However, that appears to have caused some other
issues, since we had a page called "Search" which seems to have overwritten
the default search results page.