On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Hamster wrote:
I am interested in how others are making annoucements on their XWiki.
For example: let's say that there's maintenance scheduled to the network, and that certain drives are unavailable for some period of time. Or that email is unavailable for a certain period of time?
Right now, we are using email as our main method of communication, but I would like to eliminate email saying "We are out of water from 10:00 till 13:00"...last friday!!! Everybody is busy reading email about things which happened at some time in the past :-)
How can that announcement be made "visible" on the mainpage of our XWiki?
We could just edit the XWiki mainpage, show the annoucement and remove it afterwards (but that's not so sophisticated)
What other options are available?
The best option in the future IMO is to use a UI Extension when Jean-Vincent will have committed it in 4.2M3… We should have one in the right .vm file to place announcement visible on all pages. We might also want one only for admins in the admin page (see the myxwiki.org use case where we ask admins to upgrade their XARs when we upgrade the farm). Thanks -Vincent
I was thinking about the Blog Application, where the annoucement will be made. Annoucements could be a seperate category in the Blog. The XWiki mainpage should only show Blog entries of a specific category. Best thing would be if we could "publish" the Blog entry at a certain time (this is possible), and "unpublish" the Blog entry after the maintenance has been completed (not yet possible in an automated fashion, but you can "hide" a blog entry by hand).
So, what methods do you guys using?