[xwiki-users] XWiki diagram linking
Hi, Does anyone know if its possible in XWiki to create a diagram (e.g. UML diagram, organisational diagram, etc) where you can click on a box or some text on the diagram and go to the relevant wiki page and maybe from that page back to its associated diagram? This would be quite useful for navigating from a diagram to its underlying references. Regards, Richrd Thales UK Ltd (Wells) DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. We may monitor all e-mail communications through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on sender's telephone number above and delete it and all copies from your system. We accept no responsibility for changes to any e-mail which occur after it has been sent. Attachments to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your system. We therefore recommend you virus-check all attachments before opening. Thales UK Ltd. Registered Office: 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2NX Registered in England No. 868273
goldring, richard wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if its possible in XWiki to create a diagram (e.g. UML diagram, organisational diagram, etc) where you can click on a box or some text on the diagram and go to the relevant wiki page and maybe from that page back to its associated diagram? This would be quite useful for navigating from a diagram to its underlying references.
Not yet, at least not as an official feature. But you can use HTML tricks to do that: make a png image with an imagemap, on which you can define areas and their links. The problem is that you will either have to define the map yourself, or hope that your UML tool can do that for you. Another option is to export the image as SVG, which has tags for links, then edit the SVG and add the links. The only problem is that SVG is not supported natively by IE. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Well we have a mindmap automatic generic in the code zone and Niels has done something with the Simile Timeline too for navigating by date. -Vincent On May 7, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
goldring, richard wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if its possible in XWiki to create a diagram (e.g. UML diagram, organisational diagram, etc) where you can click on a box or some text on the diagram and go to the relevant wiki page and maybe from that page back to its associated diagram? This would be quite useful for navigating from a diagram to its underlying references.
Not yet, at least not as an official feature.
But you can use HTML tricks to do that: make a png image with an imagemap, on which you can define areas and their links. The problem is that you will either have to define the map yourself, or hope that your UML tool can do that for you.
Another option is to export the image as SVG, which has tags for links, then edit the SVG and add the links. The only problem is that SVG is not supported natively by IE. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Well we have a mindmap automatic generic in the code zone and Niels has done something with the Simile Timeline too for navigating by date.
Simile Timeline example apps w/ Xwiki: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/TL2 http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/NprTimeline http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/CoolMusicPodcasts Also worth looking at, Simile's "Exhibit:" http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ "Exhibit" can be integrated in to Xwiki: http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/d9667ce6c... In exhibit, you can navigate by all sorts of things, and it's up to you to create the data and relationships so that this can happen automatically. It has the following plugins, some of which may do what you need. drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-05-05 11:34 calendar/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-05 11:34 chart/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-05 11:34 curate/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-05 11:34 editing/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-05-05 11:34 freebase/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-05 12:16 map/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-05 11:34 time/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-05-05 11:34 timeplot/
In the example http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents the "map" and "time" plugins are used. (warning, doesn't work in IE yet due to "Exhibit" bug in this particular rev). See also http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Todo/MakeCoolUMLdiagramsOnTheWeb Niels http://nielsmayer.com
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goldring, richard -
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Vincent Massol