[xwiki-users] xWiki functionality / Would it work for our project?
I'm reviewing java, open source CMS and wikis for a project we're soon to begin. The project will mirror some of wikipedias functionality in allowing collaboration on content to a set of authorized users, content discussion and versioning. There are a couple of items that are driving me to CMSs vs Wikis and I'm curious of xwiki might fit the bill. 1. I need more control of how the content is presented, i.e. strong programmaticly enforced templates and 2. I need something that will store portions of the content in separate database fields for more focused queries. Some of these fields would be text while others would be numerics, dates, etc. Something like a wikipedia country page but storing the Climate and Geology sections of geography in their own DB fields and also storing metrics such as GDP and Population as numbers in a relational database.
Hi Jeff, I'm reviewing java, open source CMS and wikis for a project we're soon to
begin. The project will mirror some of wikipedias functionality in allowing collaboration on content to a set of authorized users, content discussion and versioning. There are a couple of items that are driving me to CMSs vs Wikis and I'm curious of xwiki might fit the bill.
Thanks for giving XWiki a look :-) From your short description I'm almost sure it will fit. Let's see how :
1. I need more control of how the content is presented, i.e. strong programmaticly enforced templates
XWiki was _meant_ to provide power user with ways to create templates that can be used to define exactly how the content should be displayed on a page. For instance, create an account on XWiki.org, log-in, go to this page : http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/Alenty and click on edit : you've got in-place edition that follows the defined template. (Please click on "Cancel" afterwards rather than on "Save").
2. I need something that will store portions of the content in separate database fields for more focused queries. Some of these fields would be text while others would be numerics, dates, etc. Something like a wikipedia country page but storing the Climate and Geology sections of geography in their own DB fields and also storing metrics such as GDP and Population as numbers in a relational database.
XWiki givs you the ability to define classes. A class is basically made of a set of properties (I want a "country" class where countryname will be a string property, countrypopulation will be a number property, countrycities will be a databaseSimpleList property...) Then you can create new pages that instanciate objects of this class : you create a page and add a "country" object to it -> now you can store data in your page in a structured manner using the object's fields.
From your description, that's what I'd call a perfect match. :-)
The best way to understand the potential of XWiki is to check it out by yourself. Check out http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Tutorials and specifically this one : http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial to see how you could leverage XWiki's feature set for your project. Hope this helps, Guillaume
Look at this quick example http://www.ludovic.org/xwiki/bin/view/Cities/ You won't have the rights to add a city but it's fully dynamic and build on top of standard XWiki Ludovic Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Jeff,
I'm reviewing java, open source CMS and wikis for a project we're soon to
begin. The project will mirror some of wikipedias functionality in allowing collaboration on content to a set of authorized users, content discussion and versioning. There are a couple of items that are driving me to CMSs vs Wikis and I'm curious of xwiki might fit the bill.
Thanks for giving XWiki a look :-) From your short description I'm almost sure it will fit. Let's see how :
1. I need more control of how the content is presented, i.e. strong programmaticly enforced templates
XWiki was _meant_ to provide power user with ways to create templates that can be used to define exactly how the content should be displayed on a page. For instance, create an account on XWiki.org, log-in, go to this page : http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/Alenty and click on edit : you've got in-place edition that follows the defined template. (Please click on "Cancel" afterwards rather than on "Save").
2. I need something that will store portions of the content in separate database fields for more focused queries. Some of these fields would be text while others would be numerics, dates, etc. Something like a wikipedia country page but storing the Climate and Geology sections of geography in their own DB fields and also storing metrics such as GDP and Population as numbers in a relational database.
XWiki givs you the ability to define classes. A class is basically made of a set of properties (I want a "country" class where countryname will be a string property, countrypopulation will be a number property, countrycities will be a databaseSimpleList property...) Then you can create new pages that instanciate objects of this class : you create a page and add a "country" object to it -> now you can store data in your page in a structured manner using the object's fields.
From your description, that's what I'd call a perfect match. :-)
The best way to understand the potential of XWiki is to check it out by yourself. Check out http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Tutorials and specifically this one : http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial to see how you could leverage XWiki's feature set for your project.
Hope this helps,
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