[xwiki-users] Killer App for xwiki
Hello, In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite. So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular? I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do it I would just be awesome. thanks -- Francisco Hernández Cuchí ********************************************************************************************** IMPORTANTE: El contenido de este correo y ficheros adjuntos es confidencial y está dirigido únicamente para el destinatario/s. Si Ud recibe este correo por error, por favor póngase en contacto con su administrador de correo o con el emisor immediatamente y no difunda su contenido a nadie ni haga copias. *** Este correo ha sido escaneado de virus y contenido malicioso *** **********************************************************************************************
Hernández Cuchí wrote:
Hello,
In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite.
So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular?
I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do it I would just be awesome.
There is no public form designer for the moment, although there was an attempt to do this a few years ago (still in the sandbox), and we do know that this is a Must Have feature, but there's no volunteer for it at the moment. Technically, this shouldn't be that difficult to do for an experienced developer (either in JS or in GWT), but our GWT developers are pushing on the new WYSIWYG editor, and our JS developers are busy on other things. And I didn't see any Summer of Code candidate good enough to handle this project, maybe this year we'll have one. Another alternative for the moment is to use the class sheet found in XE, as it creates a basic automatic form for a class, one that simply lists all properties and displays them in order. So in summary, we're planning to have this as soon as we find resources or volunteers to work on it. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
I think you referring to sharepoint lists, which I agree and very useful and powerful, but they are not exactly form. I don't know of an easy way to customize sharepoint lists to support any business rules. I also don't know of any easy way to query data from sharepoint list. Sharepoint is very powerful and with the right level of training you can create powerful solutions quickly with it. XWiki, I believe is a different category of application. I would recommend you look into combining Xwiki with the eXo platform or Liferay, to have something similar to Sharepoint. Also look into creating portlets inside Liferay , I am not familiar with portlets, but I know that many Java frameworks allows you to create and integrate with the portlets standards. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Hernández Cuchí, Francisco Ricardo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite.
So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular?
I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do it I would just be awesome.
thanks
--
Francisco Hernández Cuchí
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Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Hernández Cuchí wrote:
Hello,
In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite.
So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular?
I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do it I would just be awesome.
There is no public form designer for the moment, although there was an attempt to do this a few years ago (still in the sandbox), and we do know that this is a Must Have feature, but there's no volunteer for it at the moment. Technically, this shouldn't be that difficult to do for an experienced developer (either in JS or in GWT), but our GWT developers are pushing on the new WYSIWYG editor, and our JS developers are busy on other things. And I didn't see any Summer of Code candidate good enough to handle this project, maybe this year we'll have one.
Another alternative for the moment is to use the class sheet found in XE, as it creates a basic automatic form for a class, one that simply lists all properties and displays them in order.
So in summary, we're planning to have this as soon as we find resources or volunteers to work on it.
Alternatively, since you're planning on spending some money, you can go to www.xwiki.com for payed support, and you can support the development of this feature. It is better to invest in Open Source than to keep feeding the MS monopoly. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Thanks for the info people! The problem is that I give only technical advice, I do not make the decisions. If that would be possible, and then listing the objects with all the properties, it would rock. -----Mensaje original----- De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Sergiu Dumitriu Enviado el: jueves, 05 de marzo de 2009 13:21 Para: XWiki Users Asunto: Re: [xwiki-users] Killer App for xwiki Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Hernández Cuchí wrote:
Hello,
In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite.
So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular?
I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do it I would just be awesome.
There is no public form designer for the moment, although there was an attempt to do this a few years ago (still in the sandbox), and we do know that this is a Must Have feature, but there's no volunteer for it at the moment. Technically, this shouldn't be that difficult to do for an experienced developer (either in JS or in GWT), but our GWT developers are pushing on the new WYSIWYG editor, and our JS developers are busy on other things. And I didn't see any Summer of Code candidate good enough to handle this project, maybe this year we'll have one.
Another alternative for the moment is to use the class sheet found in XE, as it creates a basic automatic form for a class, one that simply lists all properties and displays them in order.
So in summary, we're planning to have this as soon as we find resources or volunteers to work on it.
Alternatively, since you're planning on spending some money, you can go to www.xwiki.com for payed support, and you can support the development of this feature. It is better to invest in Open Source than to keep feeding the MS monopoly. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ********************************************************************************************** IMPORTANTE: El contenido de este correo y ficheros adjuntos es confidencial y está dirigido únicamente para el destinatario/s. Si Ud recibe este correo por error, por favor póngase en contacto con su administrador de correo o con el emisor immediatamente y no difunda su contenido a nadie ni haga copias. *** Este correo ha sido escaneado de virus y contenido malicioso *** **********************************************************************************************
Just yet another idea, if somemody collect ones: I time from time thinking about embedding JasperReports in xwiki to receive analog of Crystal Reports
For a static PPT file, the office importer seems to do "reports" quite nicely already: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/Spreadsheet Niels http://nielsmayer.com On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Just yet another idea, if somemody collect ones:
I time from time thinking about embedding JasperReports in xwiki to receive analog of Crystal Reports
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We've been thinking about this for a while. It is possible to script XWiki to achieve what you say but we haven't made it easy. We are actually close to it and do not even need a form designer as was suggesting Sergiu. We just need to be able to focus one developer probably for about a month just on this and we can get something very cool. I perfectly agree.. It's a killer app we should have and we are close to it. If some users that know both sharepoint and XWiki well can list us what makes XWiki great compared to Sharepoint it would really help. We are often asked how to differentiate. Ludovic Hernández Cuchí a écrit :
Hello,
In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite.
So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular?
I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do it I would just be awesome.
thanks
--
Francisco Hernández Cuchí
********************************************************************************************** IMPORTANTE: El contenido de este correo y ficheros adjuntos es confidencial y está dirigido únicamente para el destinatario/s. Si Ud recibe este correo por error, por favor póngase en contacto con su administrador de correo o con el emisor immediatamente y no difunda su contenido a nadie ni haga copias. *** Este correo ha sido escaneado de virus y contenido malicioso *** ********************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost
Needless to say that if any company wants to sponsor this we can find people to implement it. Ludovic Ludovic Dubost a écrit :
We've been thinking about this for a while. It is possible to script XWiki to achieve what you say but we haven't made it easy. We are actually close to it and do not even need a form designer as was suggesting Sergiu.
We just need to be able to focus one developer probably for about a month just on this and we can get something very cool.
I perfectly agree.. It's a killer app we should have and we are close to it.
If some users that know both sharepoint and XWiki well can list us what makes XWiki great compared to Sharepoint it would really help. We are often asked how to differentiate.
Ludovic
Hernández Cuchí a écrit :
Hello,
In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite.
So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular?
I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do it I would just be awesome.
thanks
--
Francisco Hernández Cuchí
********************************************************************************************** IMPORTANTE: El contenido de este correo y ficheros adjuntos es confidencial y está dirigido únicamente para el destinatario/s. Si Ud recibe este correo por error, por favor póngase en contacto con su administrador de correo o con el emisor immediatamente y no difunda su contenido a nadie ni haga copias. *** Este correo ha sido escaneado de virus y contenido malicioso *** ********************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost
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Ali M. -
Hernández Cuchí, Francisco Ricardo -
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Sergiu Dumitriu