On Aug 21, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Hamster wrote:
I am interested in how others are making annoucements
on their XWiki.
For example: let's say that there's maintenance scheduled to the network,
and that certain drives are unavailable for some period of time. Or that
email is unavailable for a certain period of time?
Right now, we are using email as our main method of communication, but I
would like to eliminate email saying "We are out of water from 10:00 till
13:00"...last friday!!! Everybody is busy reading email about things which
happened at some time in the past :-)
How can that announcement be made "visible" on the mainpage of our XWiki?
We could just edit the XWiki mainpage, show the annoucement and remove it
afterwards (but that's not so sophisticated)
What other options are available?
The best option in the future IMO is to use a UI Extension when Jean-Vincent will have
committed it in 4.2M3…
We should have one in the right .vm file to place announcement visible on all pages.
We might also want one only for admins in the admin page (see the
myxwiki.org use case
where we ask admins to upgrade their XARs when we upgrade the farm).
Thanks
-Vincent
I was thinking about the Blog Application, where the annoucement will be
made. Annoucements could be a seperate category in the Blog. The XWiki
mainpage should only show Blog entries of a specific category. Best thing
would be if we could "publish" the Blog entry at a certain time (this is
possible), and "unpublish" the Blog entry after the maintenance has been
completed (not yet possible in an automated fashion, but you can "hide" a
blog entry by hand).
So, what methods do you guys using?