3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
10:04 a.m.
Hi Ricardo,
In first instance I copied the sample (the timeline) in a WIKI page, but of course as in
the sample are defined <html>, <head> and <body> tags, it could not
work. In a wiki page we already are inside the <body> tag, and the browser does not
like redefining such tags very much.
I then tried the trick from the TIMELINE-24 issue also, but it failed to work. I don't
know if I left this "patch" on the page, because my wiki is currently broken ...
:/ It removed the URL prefiks issue, but nothing was displayed.
So the trick was to have a page WikiDev.TimeLine, with the sample, another page
WikiDev.TimeLineFeed with the sample script to generate the XML (it works well, I only
added new things inside it). Basically the timeline feed page generates XML with a root
<data> tag, and a number of <event> tags inside, with a date
("start") and a "description". So it's very easy to generate using
any events as entries. In the WikiDev.TimeLine page you have to put URL of
WikiDev.TimeLineFeed as first parameter of the tl.loadxml() method.
Then, in the page where I want to show the timeline, I added a <iframe>, with
"src" equals URL of WikiDev.TimeLine. Also had to give it a height and width for
proper display. Inside the <iframe> it's like in another page, so there is no
problem of <head> or <body> tags anymore. The WikiDev.TimeLine page does not
show up (you get the URL prefiks error), but the <iframe> in the other page should
display correctly.
Hope this helps ...
Regards,
Jeremie
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From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Your XEN ICT
Team - Ricardo Rodriguez
Sent: dimanche 2 décembre 2007 13:13
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Getting rendered content of a pagewith aspecifictemplate
BOUSQUET Jeremie wrote:
Hi all,
I, of course, completely agree, as said I merely put 2 things together ;-)
The timeline is a great feature, I'm currently working on adding all this information
in the same timeline (using groovy), and use it in the homepage:
of course, blog news
page updates
FAQ entries
comments on pages
The result is not yet perfect, but it's working quite nicely, using different bullets
colors depending on type of item. I still have a problem in Jeremi's part (XML
generation), because it seems that most recent entry in RSS is not taken into account in
generated XML, and I really don't understand why (it's a for $entry in $entries
with xwiki.feed.getFeeds(url), it should retrieve everything !?)
Also, when your timeline is "rich" it's quite unreadable, because newer
things go too far in the bottom and don't display at all. I'm trying to make the
timeline automatically "magnify" itselfs for current period of time (+- n
hours), so items will be able to show up side-by-side, but I'm still failing to do it.
The timeplot also seems very cool ;-) Only problem (for both timeline & timeplot) is
that if it's rich it can take long to show up ... But it's a very nice and
synthetic display.
Regards,
Jeremie
Hi,
I've been trying to understand why the <iframe> trick is needed. Just to help to
follow this issue... http://simile.mit.edu/issues/browse/TIMELINE-24
But I am still far from being able to contribute with an useful page about the use
Timeline within XWiki. I am not even able to feed a sample Timeline with any thing
different than the Jeremi's example at http://www.jeremi.info/index.php/feed/rss2!
Please, Jeremi, could you provide some example about how to feed the timeline simply with
xwiki blog news?
Thank you so much,
Ricardo
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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team