Hi Mark, On Nov 16, 2009, at 2:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Josh,
Thanks for your reply and interest.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong in this relatively simple case. Beginning to look at alternative wikis.
Definitely xwiki can be used to build 2.0 level of functionality, but it seems to me there's a little too much black box. I've tried other applications as well .. such as the task manager app .. and found problems others have found as well right out of the box. My point is it's all a little too vague for my comfort.
One thing to note: this task manager app is not written nor supported by the XWiki dev team. It's been contributed by individuals and is supported by them or any contributor who wants to help. The quality of the code you find on code.xwiki.org varies a lot. All we can guarantee here is the code that is developed by the XWiki dev team. In general if apps on code.xwiki.org break it's because they haven't been updated at the same rate as the XWiki platform and in general it's really not much to make them work (a few minutes of work). The FAQ tutorial works well AFAIK. IMO you've probably forgotten some steps (in one step you must edit the default template to set in which space new FAQ documents are created - not that it matters, it'll work wherever they are created) or have set up some different configuration for the default wiki syntax for new pages. Thanks -Vincent
I haven't given up, just beginning to look elsewhere as well.
Thanks, Mark
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Hi Mark,
Sorry for the delayed response. I went through the steps of creating the FAQ application per the tutorial, but I can't reproduce your issue. Questions are created in the FAQ space for me, not Main. Your code looks fine as well.
Were you able to figure it out?
Thanks, -Joshua-
[email protected] wrote:
Hi Joshua,
(I apologize to all if this appears more than once; I haven't been successful posting to the mailing list since before yesterday. Perhaps attachments are prohibited? Trying again without.)
Thanks again, your explanation of spaces was very clear and helpful.
Now that I have a little better understanding of spaces, I'll present my
problem. For some reason when I create a FAQ entry, it's not going into the FAQ space but instead into the Main space. Per the tutorial, I haven't created a FAQ space explicitly this go round.
It seems to me this can only be happening as a result of the code that adds a FAQ, or perhaps in the class definition code which specifies the default space. Looks right to me and jibes with what you've said about spaces. Here it is yanked directly out of my code .. which was simply a copy/paste from the tutorial:
FAQClass code: {{velocity}} ## Replace Main with the Space where you want your documents to be created. ## Replace the default parent with the one of your choice and save the document. ## #set($className = $doc.name.substring(0, $doc.name.indexOf("Class"))) #set($defaultParent = 'FAQ.WebHome') #set($defaultSpace = 'FAQ') {{/velocity}}
{{include document="XWiki.ClassSheet"/}}
FAQTemplate code: {{include document="FAQ.FAQSheet"/}}
FAQ WebHome code ( http://localhost/xwiki/bin/edit/FAQ/WebHome?&editor=wiki ): = Existing FAQ entries =
{{velocity}} #set($sql = ", BaseObject as obj where obj.name=doc.fullName and obj.className='FAQ.FAQClass' and obj.name<>'FAQ.FAQTemplate'") #set($results = $xwiki.searchDocuments($sql)) #if($results.empty) No FAQ has been created yet! #else #foreach ($item in $results) #set($faq = $xwiki.getDocument($item)) * [[${faq.display("question").replace("<p>", "").replace("</p>", "")}>>${item}]] #end #end {{/velocity}}
{{velocity}} #if("$!request.docName" != '') ## Request for creating a new instance #set($targetDocName = "${request.spaceName}.${request.docName}") #set($targetDocName = $targetDocName.replace("?", "").replace("#", "").trim()) #if(!$xwiki.exists($targetDocName) && $xwiki.hasAccessLevel('edit', $context.user, $targetDocName)) $response.sendRedirect($xwiki.getURL($targetDocName, 'inline', "template=${request.template}&parent=${request.parent}")) ## Stop processing, since we already sent a redirect. #stop #end #end
= Add a new question =
#if("$!targetDocName" != '' && $xwiki.exists($targetDocName)) {{warning}}The target document already exists. Please choose a different name, or [[view the existing document>>$targetDocName]]{{/warning}} #elseif("$!targetDocName" != '') {{warning}}You don't have permission to create that document{{/warning}} #end
{{html}} <form action="" id="newdoc" method="post"> <div> <input type="hidden" name="parent" value="${doc.fullName}"/> <input type="hidden" name="template" value="FAQ.FAQTemplate"/> <input type="hidden" name="sheet" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="spaceName" value="FAQ"/> Document: <input type="text" name="docName" value="Enter your question here" class="withTip" size="50"/> <span class="buttonwrapper"><input type="submit" value="Create this FAQ" class="button"/></span> </div> </form> {{/html}} {{/velocity}}
So what am I missing?
Thanks, Mark
"Rieken, Joshua" <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 11/10/2009 04:37 PM Please respond to XWiki Users <[email protected]>
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Mark,
You're very welcome. It's not necessary to explicitly create the WebHome
in FAQ until later in the tutorial. Question/Answer documents that are created from the FAQ Class page will go into the FAQ space, which "comes
into existence" the instant any document is placed in it.
For example, if you add a question/answer page called "FAQ.Howtoeditapage", you can still get to it regardless of whether "FAQ.WebHome" exists.
A space "disappears" when every document that is part of the space is deleted. So a space is just a collection of documents and doesn't really
exist outside of those documents. It's really just a convenient way to organize your documents.
Good luck, and if you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
-Joshua-
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:31 PM To: XWiki Users Cc: XWiki Users; [email protected] Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] problem with FAQ tutorial .. space assignment?
Hi Joshua,
Thanks very much for your prompt reply. It helps a lot to know the history and what WebHome means!
Am I correct then in first creating the FAQ space explicitly, even though that's not called for in the tutorial? Like so:
"I've first created the FAQ Space, then built the FAQ Class, etc, then put the code into the 'home' page for the space, ie http://localhost/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/"
Thanks, Mark
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"Rieken, Joshua" <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 11/10/2009 03:18 PM Please respond to XWiki Users <[email protected]>
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Hi Mark,
http://localhost/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/ actually takes you to http://localhost/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/WebHome. "WebHome" is the home page for any given space. The name "WebHome" came from earlier versions of XWiki, when a Space was called a Web.
Hope this helps, -Joshua-
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Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [xwiki-users] problem with FAQ tutorial .. space
assignment?
Hi,
I've followed along in the tutorial in the dev guide for creating a FAQ at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial
Here's my first point of confusion: in section 'Create a homepage for your application' it states 'Go to the "FAQ.WebHome" page'. I do not see such a page. In the latest iterations of building the FAQ I've first created the FAQ Space, then built the FAQ Class, etc, then put the code into the 'home' page for the space, ie
http://localhost/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/
I'm sure my problems stem from my weak understanding of this step and how spaces are created and referenced.
Thanks, Mark