New subject: [xwiki-users] Editing an Application result in errors even when making no changes

28 Dec 2016

Hi everyone,

I recently tried to install a few applications onto my XWiki 8.4.2 instance, some of them
(namely, Idea Application &amp; Task Application) get this strange error whenever I
tried to click Edit and just click Next to explorer the feature: the main screen will
display some kind of exception about velocity macro and Space (I am sure you can reproduce
this to see the details). Also, in the Application left navigation, application name will
change to some kind of id/reference (e.g. ideas.app.title, TaskManager.panels.name). So, I
have a few questions:

1. It doesn't seem natural to me that a user with role of normal user can Edit an
Application. So what does it mean by "Editing an Application"? And why would it
be normal to allow a user (non-admin) to edit an Application?

2. I am guessing Editing an application is some kind of administrative activities. If so,
is there any documentation regarding Applications administration in XWiki? I found this:
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Applications? but it covers only
Installing and (a bit of) Usage. It references other documentation for Development of
Application or XWiki itself but not administration.

Thanks,

Zoom