[xwiki-users] Show announcement on XWiki
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? 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? -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Show-announcement-on-XWiki-tp7580979.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Hamster, one method I've used in the past is to create a page called Main.Announce Then I would include the content of this page in header.vm and style it in bold red. This way when there is content in Main.Announce it's displayed at the top of the page for everyone to see. When there is none, nothing displays. Guillaume On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Hamster <[email protected]> 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?
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?
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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?
We customized the blog app to add a date attribute called "end of publication". This could help to make it more sophisticated. If you look at the code behind the categories display it should not be to hard to find the rss feed linked to that category. On the main page you could display that rss feed and maybe customize the look and feel by adding a stylesheet object to the main page. Use the rss display macro... Gerritjan Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad Op 21 aug. 2012 om 11:36 heeft Hamster <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
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?
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?
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To me it could even be all managed by a sophisticated calendar application. The process could be: - define the event as calendar entry with its own start/end dates - optionally assign it an importance - optionally publish a related blog entry / announcement, defining time schedule (1 week before event, 1d before event, ...) 2012/8/21 Gmail GJ <[email protected]>:
We customized the blog app to add a date attribute called "end of publication". This could help to make it more sophisticated. If you look at the code behind the categories display it should not be to hard to find the rss feed linked to that category. On the main page you could display that rss feed and maybe customize the look and feel by adding a stylesheet object to the main page. Use the rss display macro...
Gerritjan
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad
Op 21 aug. 2012 om 11:36 heeft Hamster <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
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?
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?
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Vincent Massol