New subject: [xwiki-users] xwiki as our Intranet

27 Oct 2015

Hi Rolf,

for use case 2:

 actually I did not realize that the main wiki:Main.Activity page
still uses my locally adapted "activity" macro ... that is why it worked for me,
and not for you.

So, it seems we need to get our hands dirty and modify the "activity" Macro:

a) in the subwiki, go to the .../Main/Activity page
b) go to "Edit" -> "Objects"
c) click "Objects of type XWiki.WikiMacroClass
d) this opens several text fields;
   the big field for "Macro code" contains, unsurprisingly, the code for the
macro
   which makes sure we only see messages from the local wiki.
  Here we need to make some changes:

d1) just at the start:

  {{velocity output=false}}
  ##

 add a line remembering the current wiki, so it looks instead like:

  {{velocity output=false}}
  #set($currentWiki = $xcontext.getDatabase())
  ##

d2) look for the code

 ## Always assume access to messages. For the rest of the documents, check access.
 #if
($pageName.matches(".*:XWiki[.][0-9a-z]{8}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{12}")
|| ($xwiki.hasAccessLevel('view', $xcontext.user,
"${xcontext.database}:${pageName}") &&
!$iterationDocuments.contains($pageName)))

  insert five lines of code in between so it looks like:

 ## Always assume access to messages. For the rest of the documents, check access.
 #if
($pageName.matches(".*:XWiki[.][0-9a-z]{8}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{12}"))
   #set($myWiki = "xwiki")
 #else
   #set($myWiki = $currentWiki)
 #end
 #if
($pageName.matches(".*:XWiki[.][0-9a-z]{8}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{12}")
|| ($xwiki.hasAccessLevel('view', $xcontext.user,
"${xcontext.database}:${pageName}") &&
!$iterationDocuments.contains($pageName)))

what it does: prepares to set the "right" wiki/database: if it is a message,
look it up in the main wiki (which knows all messages), for all other events, stay at the
local wiki

d3) look a few lines below for:

  #set ($discard = $subqueryParameters.addAll($filterParameters))
  #set ($events= $xwiki.activitystream.searchEvents("$!whereClause", false, 0,
0, $subqueryParameters))

   in between them insert a line actually setting the wiki to look up the event; it should
looks like

 #set ($discard = $subqueryParameters.addAll($filterParameters))
 #set ($discard = $xcontext.setDatabase($myWiki))
 #set ($events= $xwiki.activitystream.searchEvents("$!whereClause", false, 0, 0,
$subqueryParameters))

this actually sets the wiki to the one where the event is looked up.

d4) at the very end replace:

#end
{{/velocity}}

with:

#end
#set($discard =  $xcontext.setDatabase($currentWiki))
{{/velocity}}

this sets the "current wiki" back to the original wiki, just in case (I think
XWiki does it for you, too, but I prefer to be polite and clean up after myself ;))

press "Save and View"

If you see horrible, horrible error messages, something went wrong; to back to the object
editor and try to find the missing " or ),
or use the page history, to get back to the last version before the edit.

If you do not see any error message ... you should see that nothing has changed, yet.
That is because by default the activity stream only looks up events for the subwiki ... we
need to change this, too, but that goes without wild coding

Go to the "Dashboard", edit the page, and edit the Gadget "Activity
stream"
Find the input field "wikis", and type in "xwiki,mysubwiki"  (replace
mysubwiki with the name of the current wiki)

Close the dialog to edit the gadget, save the dashboard, and it should work.

hope it works this time. Sorry, if it is a bit complicated; that is why I did not post in
my first reply

----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
From: Rolf Lang
At:  Dienstag, 27.10.2015, 15:03
To: Xwiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] xwiki as our Intranet

...
  Hi Clemens,

 thanks for your advise.

 1. point
 Works great as you described (ok)

 2. point "global xwiki send messages should be visible also at local xwiki"
 We follow your recommendations.

 if we use "reference" : xwiki:Main.Activity 
 -	we see subWiki Activities (ok)
 -	but we miss the main Activities listed here

 If we use a wrong "reference" : xwiki:MainXX.Activity
 -	we see a clear error msg on GUI (ok)

 We try to change "administration.users"
 The option 'what kind of users can access the wiki' to
 - 	only global users

 But it makes no difference.

 Kind regards
 Rolf LANG

 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
 Von: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] Im Auftrag von Clemens
 Klein-Robbenhaar
 Gesendet: Montag, 26. Oktober 2015 12:37
 An: users(a)xwiki.org
 Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] xwiki as our Intranet

  Hi
 We like to use the xwiki as our Intranet solution.

 Currently it's setup as one global xwiki where people find downloads and  the
  dashboard.
 Also each department use a subWiki, which uses local dashboard and infos.

 Maybe we need some help on howto configure/setup these requirements:

 1. subWiki send messages should be visible local only. Currently they are
 seen also on global xwiki as copy.  
 This is the easy part :)

 Go to the "Dashboard" in the main wiki, edit that page,
 open the gadgets showing the activity stream, look for the "Wikis"
 parameter, and fill in the value "xwiki"
 (which is the id of the main wiki)

 After saving  the activity stream on the dashboard stream should only show
 events from the main wiki.

  2. global xwiki send messages should be visible
also at local xwiki
 dashboard. If possible as Reference, not as copy.

 this turned out to be trickier, because the activity stream in the subwiki
 by default
 only looks for events in the subwiki.

 One option is to go to the dashboard of the subwiki, and replace the
 activity by an include the activity stream for the main wiki (which then
 will display all messages, but only page edits from the subwiki):

 To do this:
  - edit the dashboard of the subwiki
  - remove the existing activity stream (no worries, if things go wrong you
 can just restore it from the page history)
  - add a new "include" gadget and fill in the values:
  -- "Gadget Title" (whatever you want)
  -- "context" : New
  -- "reference" : xwiki:Main.Activity
    and leave the other fields empty / at default

 This will work only if all your users have access to the main wiki, however.
 (Otherwise they just see an error message)

 If this does not work, the alternative is to edit the "Activity" macro in
 the subwiki ... which is a bit more work and might cause problem when
 upgrading to an newer version.
 I could post hints how to do this, but it is a bit lengthy and technical,
 and I would prefer to see if the first option works.

 hope this helps,
 clemens

 Final question:
 If the mailing list could give us some advise how to setup xwiki, GREAT. 
 Otherwise we also may accept an on-site workshop, depending on the costs.

 Kind regards
 ___
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 Eugenstr. 7 | 70182 Stuttgart | Tel 0711/212-4275 | E-Mail
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