Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki

Hi Guillaume, In the ancient days before xwiki we used to checkout a project from version control (Telelogic Synergy) into the file system. To access it from Web we put the base directory under apache htdocs using directory navigation feature provided by apache server. The major drawback was/is - no access control (ok htaccess - not realy maintainable in our case) - no possibility to add meta data like version, author e.a. from version control - no special filters on file types (e.g. only show office documents for project a (separate directory structure), all documents for project b (separate directory structure) My first idea is to provide a plugin to access filesystem starting from a root-directory and generate a tree like structure. On top of this I can provide a filter mechanism and adding meta data to the display. It should look something like this: http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/ProjectA/ContentFromVersionControl (Page content) This page contains detailed data from project myspecialProject~jgellien from Synergy repository myrepo: myspecialProject~jgellien |-----doc | |- myDescription.doc (version: 1.0, last changed: jgellien) | |- more docs to come (version: 1.1, last changed: jgellien) | |-subdir |- projectplan.xls (version: 1.1, last modified: jgellien) The documentation is directly maintained inside version control with a predefined directory structure. This structure should be preserved in the presentation layer. Updating the documentation could be done with a chron job. Perhaps this goes into the direction of WebDav and ViewVC but I am no expert on this field. Do you have any advise how to proceed? Any help is highly appreciated. Best regards Joerg ___________________________________________________ Jörg Gellien Otto Group Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA Otto (GmbH & Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691 joerg.gellien(a)ottogroup.com · www.ottogroup.com ___________________________________________________ AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762 vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken · Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto (Vorsitzender) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:59:04 +0100 From: "Guillaume Lerouge" <guillaume(a)xwiki.com> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki enterprose 1.3 To: "XWiki Users" <users(a)xwiki.org> Message-ID: <1c35d2320803110659n518577cbx6fa53ff6eeb8cdfd(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Jorg, Thanks :-) Not quite. I didn't understand this : - Where will your files be stored -> in an external system or as attachments to a wiki page ? - If your files are stored in an external system and you want to provide access to them from the wiki, you need to tell us what system this is (there is some work going on with WebDav or SVN integration for instance) - If your files are stored in your wiki -> then it is quite easy to generate a list of all the files attached to a given wiki page on that page itself. It will save you the time of having to edit the page to add a link towards new files every time you upload one. Thanks, Guillaume