Re: [xwiki-users] Users not displayed

First, browse /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/XWikiAllGroup if this doesn't have all the registered users of your wiki listed, then they will not have privilege to do much of anything on the wiki. This can happen, for example, if you overwrite your original XWikiAllGroup file with the one from the XAR at import-time. If that happens, or if XWikiAdminGroup is similarly overwritten or damaged, then additional administrators won't be granted that privilege. Hand editing of the objects associated with these documents may be necessary if the above happens,. Hand editing is also necessitated by the new bug that occurs from "add user" or "add member to group" causing /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/XWikiAllGroup and /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/XWikiAdminGroup to not list the associated users. I guess this must be a regression introduced into 1.9 as 1.8 didn't have this problem, and also had a different implementation and appearance for viewing XWikiAllGroup and XWikiAdminGroup. To hand-edit these documents, as 'Admin', select document menu Edit->Object. In the object editor, note that each object is displayed in an "accordion" with each object heading looking like "XWiki.XWikiGroups[11]" (1.8) or "Objects of type XWiki.XWikiGroups...XWikiGroups 6: XWiki.NielsMayer" (2.0). Fully expand the accordions to see the contents of the objects you want to verify and edit. On each of these group-documents (e.g. XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup, XWiki.XWikiAllGroup), there are multiple object instances of XWiki.XWikiGroups, each having a single "Member" field; that field contains a single valid XWiki user. Verify that the document referenced as the user, e.g. XWiki.NielsMayer exists and has appropriate "rights" for each user listed as "Member." Delete any XWiki.XWikiGroups instances that don't correspond to a real user on your wiki; use the "Add Object" panel on the right to add new instances of XWiki.XWikiGroups to the group docs for any users not listed. (You don't need to delete an invalid member and separately add a valid one, just change the invalid document in the "member" field to a valid one). Finally, go to Administration->Rights and make sure the group documents you just "hand edited" have appropriate rights, e.g. Wiki.XWikiAdminGroup should probably have "Edit" "Delete" and "Admin" checked; XWiki.XWikiAllGroup should probably have "View" and "Comment" selected. This might be needed if you overwrote XWiki.XWikiPreferences in importing the new XAR. On the other hand, sometimes you might need to overwrite XWiki.XWikiPreferences (e.g. in upgrading Xwiki across big revision changes). It's probably a good idea to allow XWiki.XWikiPreferences to get overwritten across big Xwiki revision changes, just re-do Administration-> General, Presentation, Registration, Programming and Rights*.* One helpful tip is to use your browser's form-field autocompletion features to save the contents of the fields of the "old wiki" by re-saving General, Presentation, Registration, Programming and Rights prior to upgrading the wiki. After upgrading, use your browser's memory of prior form fileds to reinsert the appropriate prior form-field contents back into the form, and re-save. * *It would be a nice addition to XWiki to have some kind of merging tool on import. This would allow updating of system documents with new features or bugfixes, while giving the wiki administrator bettter control over customizations made in the wiki. Something like http://n2.nabble.com/import-administration-enhancement-feature-request-td24… * ... ***Niels http://nielsmayer.com