15 Mar
2012
15 Mar
'12
5:18 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:17, Marius Dumitru Florea <
mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
A path that you can take to edit the home page is:
* Go to the home page
* Click Edit
* Notice the "One included document" in the information panel (I know..)
* Click on the Dashboard.WebHome link
* Click Edit
or with an "Advanced User" click directly on Edit: Inline Form
* You're taken to the dashboard editor where you
can add/remove/edit
gadgets
* Hover over one of the gadgets and a wheel icon will appear that will
give you more options when clicked
* Edit the first gadget, "Welcome to your wiki"
* Notice that this gadget is actually an include macro and the
included document is Main.Welcome
* Go to Main.Welcome and change the content
As for $msg.get('something') see
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/InternationalizingApplica…
Hope this helps,
Marius
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Chris Bennett <cbennett(a)geofields.com>
wrote:
I want to echo Ken's thoughts, and provide
another data point to
represent
the beginners out there who may be turned off by
the learning curve.
This
is something of a long post but I hope my
concerns will be helpful to
others.
XWiki is a great product with a lot of potential for our organization
(internal information exchange). I like it a lot, and I'm convinced that
in
the long run it's better for us than any of
the other options. I'm
primarily
a .NET developer familiar with Java, Python, SQL,
etc. I've set up the
the
whole shebang from scratch using SQL Server,
Tomcat, and all the rest.
I've
created a new space, added some lengthy content
with images, and
restricted
views of unregistered guests.
Yet I'm still dismayed at how hard it is to get the most basic
information
on editing the very first page we all see. The
page itself says it's
easy!
Just try editing in WYSIWYG - it quits. Try
editing in Wiki mode -
unintelligible. The documentation simply says "just edit it" (I'm
paraphrasing), but that doesn't work, the macro doesn't make sense yet.
I've spent many hours trying to understand what's going on with the
dashboard tool (e.g., $msg.get), spent hours rummaging in the database
schema looking for "Welcome to your wiki" so I can change it to "Welcome
to
MY Freaking Wiki!" (just kidding on that
last part).
I understand (now) that I can set up a new page and maybe in an hour or
so
figure out how to get the home page redirected
there, but that is a lot
of
work for simply wanting to change the
introductory text in the main page
to
say something meaningful to my co-workers to get
them interested. Then I
can go on the learn the programming part later.
The point is that for folks like me there is a critical gap between
getting
things running and taking the first meaningful
step towards controlling
the
application. If I am also not a programmer, then
that gap is even
larger.
Questions:
- I'd like to see a tutorial-style breakdown of how the dashboard
app/tool
thingy works. Having such a tutorial linked on
the documentation page
would
be ideal, it would be a great learning tool and
introduction to the more
interesting features of XWiki.
- In that tutorial, I'd like to know how to find out where to find
$msg.get
keys so I can change reuse them, find out how
they are intended to be
used,
maybe even change them. Lots of parameters used
in that tool are very
difficult to find. How to know where to find even more? The API docs
don't
seem to cover this.
Again, XWiki is a great product and I'm looking forward to using it even
if
I don't figure out the dashboard :). If some
kind soul wanted to detail
some explanations of the dashboard, and maybe create a HOWTO list of
beginner tips that would be greatly appreciated by many I'm sure. Maybe
such a thing exists and I just haven't found it yet?
Many thanks,
-Chris.
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