11 Mar
2008
11 Mar
'08
4:38 p.m.
Hi Guillaume,
In the ancient days before xwiki we used to checkout a project from version control
(Telelogic Synergy) into the file system.
To access it from Web we put the base directory under apache htdocs using directory
navigation feature provided by apache server.
The major drawback was/is
- no access control (ok htaccess - not realy maintainable in our case)
- no possibility to add meta data like version, author e.a. from version control
- no special filters on file types (e.g. only show office documents for project a
(separate directory structure), all documents for project b (separate directory
structure)
My first idea is to provide a plugin to access filesystem starting from a root-directory
and generate a tree like structure.
On top of this I can provide a filter mechanism and adding meta data to the display.
It should look something like this:
http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/ProjectA/ContentFromVersionControl
(Page content)
This page contains detailed data from project myspecialProject~jgellien from Synergy
repository myrepo:
myspecialProject~jgellien
|-----doc
| |- myDescription.doc (version: 1.0, last changed: jgellien)
| |- more docs to come (version: 1.1, last changed: jgellien)
| |-subdir
|- projectplan.xls (version: 1.1, last modified: jgellien)
The documentation is directly maintained inside version control with a predefined
directory structure.
This structure should be preserved in the presentation layer.
Updating the documentation could be done with a chron job.
Perhaps this goes into the direction of WebDav and ViewVC but I am no expert on this
field.
Do you have any advise how to proceed?
Any help is highly appreciated.
Best regards
Joerg
___________________________________________________
Jörg Gellien
Otto Group
Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA
Otto (GmbH & Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg
Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691
joerg.gellien(a)ottogroup.com · www.ottogroup.com
___________________________________________________
AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft
Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762
vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand
(Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken ·
Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen
Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann
Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto
(Vorsitzender)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:59:04 +0100
From: "Guillaume Lerouge" <guillaume(a)xwiki.com>
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki
enterprose 1.3
To: "XWiki Users" <users(a)xwiki.org>
Message-ID:
<1c35d2320803110659n518577cbx6fa53ff6eeb8cdfd(a)mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Jorg,
first of all thanks for this new great release of
XWiki Enterprise
1.3. I am on the list for about 6 weeks now and it is a real pleasure
to see the flow of work done here.
Thanks :-)
Now to my topic for today.
To setup a departmental wiki I have the requirement to display a
directory structure with download option from within a wiki page. We
use version control system to archive documentation for specific
projects. In most cases these are office documents (doc, xls,ppt) but
might be other formats as well.
Does anyone allready has a solution for this requirement?
For me it is no option to link these documents manually as
attachments. Furthermore I like to use the rights system to restrict
access to the tree.
Hope I made myself clear.
Not quite. I didn't understand this :
- Where will your files be stored -> in an external system or as
attachments to a wiki page ?
- If your files are stored in an external system and you want to
provide access to them from the wiki, you need to tell us what system this
is (there is some work going on with WebDav or SVN integration for instance)
- If your files are stored in your wiki -> then it is quite easy
to generate a list of all the files attached to a given wiki page on that
page itself. It will save you the time of having to edit the page to add a
link towards new files every time you upload one.
Thanks,
Guillaume
12 Mar
12 Mar
10:36 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-users] Display external directory tree under xwiki
Hi folks,
Just another thought on the topic: displaying external directory structures with metadata
under XWiki.
The major goal I have to achieve is to provide readonly access to a directory structure
with associated documents for download.
I have read in the xwiki docs on optimization that it is possible to disable versioning of
documents for performance gain.
- Is it possible to disable versioning for specific spaces?
This would allow me to generate hirachical pages with the appropreate metadata (one page
-> one directory, one space -> one project to display) without creating to much junk
inside of xwiki (only latest information on structure is valid).
Does this sound reasonable - or do you think I missed some important extension
capabilities of xwiki?
Any hint is highly appreciated.
Best regards
Joerg
___________________________________________________
Jörg Gellien
Otto Group
Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA
Otto (GmbH & Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg
Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691
joerg.gellien(a)ottogroup.com · www.ottogroup.com
___________________________________________________
AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft
Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762
vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand
(Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken ·
Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen
Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann
Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto
(Vorsitzender)
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Gellien, Joerg
Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. März 2008 16:39
An: 'users(a)xwiki.org'
Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki
Hi Guillaume,
In the ancient days before xwiki we used to checkout a
project from version control (Telelogic Synergy) into the
file system. To access it from Web we put the base directory
under apache htdocs using directory navigation feature
provided by apache server.
The major drawback was/is
- no access control (ok htaccess - not realy maintainable in our case)
- no possibility to add meta data like version, author e.a.
from version control
- no special filters on file types (e.g. only show office
documents for project a (separate directory structure), all
documents for project b (separate directory structure)
My first idea is to provide a plugin to access filesystem
starting from a root-directory and generate a tree like
structure. On top of this I can provide a filter mechanism
and adding meta data to the display.
It should look something like this:
http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/ProjectA/ContentFromVersionControl
(Page content)
This page contains detailed data from project
myspecialProject~jgellien from Synergy repository myrepo:
myspecialProject~jgellien
|-----doc
| |- myDescription.doc (version: 1.0, last changed: jgellien)
| |- more docs to come (version: 1.1, last changed: jgellien)
| |-subdir
|- projectplan.xls (version: 1.1, last modified:
jgellien)
The documentation is directly maintained inside version
control with a predefined directory structure. This structure
should be preserved in the presentation layer. Updating the
documentation could be done with a chron job.
Perhaps this goes into the direction of WebDav and ViewVC but
I am no expert on this field.
Do you have any advise how to proceed?
Any help is highly appreciated.
Best regards
Joerg
___________________________________________________
Jörg Gellien
Otto Group
Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy
Administration · IL-BI-ZA Otto (GmbH & Co KG) · Wandsbeker
Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg
Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691
joerg.gellien(a)ottogroup.com · www.ottogroup.com
___________________________________________________
AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft
Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762
vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr.
Rainer Hillebrand (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) ·
Alexander Birken · Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann ·
Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen
Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann
Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender)
· Dr. Michael Otto (Vorsitzender)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:59:04 +0100
From: "Guillaume Lerouge" <guillaume(a)xwiki.com>
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki
enterprose 1.3
To: "XWiki Users" <users(a)xwiki.org>
Message-ID:
<1c35d2320803110659n518577cbx6fa53ff6eeb8cdfd(a)mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Jorg,
first of all thanks for this new great release of
XWiki Enterprise
1.3. I am on the list for about 6 weeks now and it is a
real pleasure
to see the flow of work done here.
Thanks :-)
Now to my topic for today.
To setup a departmental wiki I have the requirement to display a
directory structure with download option from within a wiki
page. We
use version control system to archive
documentation for specific
projects. In most cases these are office documents (doc,
xls,ppt) but
might be other formats as well.
Does anyone allready has a solution for this requirement?
For me it is no option to link these documents manually as
attachments. Furthermore I like to use the rights system to
restrict
access to the tree.
Hope I made myself clear.
Not quite. I didn't understand this :
- Where will your files be stored -> in an external system or
as attachments to a wiki page ?
- If your files are stored in an external system and you want
to provide access to them from the wiki, you need to tell us
what system this is (there is some work going on with WebDav
or SVN integration for instance)
- If your files are stored in your wiki -> then it is quite
easy to generate a list of all the files attached to a given
wiki page on that page itself. It will save you the time of
having to edit the page to add a link towards new files every
time you upload one. Thanks, Guillaume
15 Mar
15 Mar
7:55 p.m.
New subject: [xwiki-users] Display external directory tree under xwiki
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Gellien, Joerg
<Joerg.Gellien(a)ottogroup.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
Just another thought on the topic: displaying external directory structures with
metadata under XWiki.
The major goal I have to achieve is to provide readonly access to a directory structure
with associated documents for download.
I have read in the xwiki docs on optimization that it is possible to disable versioning
of documents for performance gain.
- Is it possible to disable versioning for specific spaces?
This option disable the whole versioning service at the higher level.
The only thing you can do at a finer grain is reseting a document
archive (deleting all the revisions except the last one).
It's not available in the public velocity API but (thanks to xwiki's
hidden APIs ;) ) any user with the programming rights can do this in a
wiki page :
------------------8<----------------------------------------------
$doc.document.resetArchive($context.context)
------------------8<----------------------------------------------
This would allow me to generate hirachical pages with
the appropreate metadata (one page -> one directory, one space -> one project to
display) without creating to much junk inside of xwiki (only latest information on
structure is valid).
I think you could use the scheduler application [1] with a groovy job
to sync you wiki with you repo, at night for example.
This groovy job could loop over you synergy projects set all the
desired datas in wiki pages and reset archives of all those documents.
[1] : http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/SchedulerApplication
bundled with XE since 1.2, see the Scheduler space.
17 Mar
17 Mar
2:42 p.m.
New subject: [xwiki-users] Display external directory tree under xwiki
Dear Jean Vincent,
Thanks for the details.
As soon as I have a first small application running I'll post on the list.
Best regards
Joerg
___________________________________________________
Jörg Gellien
Otto Group
Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA
Otto (GmbH & Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg
Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691
joerg.gellien(a)ottogroup.com · www.ottogroup.com
___________________________________________________
AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft
Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762
vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand
(Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken ·
Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen
Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann
Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto
(Vorsitzender)
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: jvdrean(a)gmail.com [mailto:jvdrean@gmail.com] Im Auftrag
von Jean-Vincent Drean
Gesendet: Samstag, 15. März 2008 19:55
An: XWiki Users; Gellien, Joerg
Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] Display external directory tree under xwiki
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Gellien, Joerg
<Joerg.Gellien(a)ottogroup.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
Just another thought on the topic: displaying external directory
structures with metadata under XWiki. The major goal I have to
achieve is to provide readonly access to a directory structure with
associated documents for download.
I have read in the xwiki docs on optimization that it is
possible to
disable versioning of documents for performance
gain.
- Is it possible to disable versioning for specific spaces?
This option disable the whole versioning service at the higher level.
The only thing you can do at a finer grain is reseting a
document archive (deleting all the revisions except the last
one). It's not available in the public velocity API but
(thanks to xwiki's hidden APIs ;) ) any user with the
programming rights can do this in a wiki page :
------------------8<----------------------------------------------
$doc.document.resetArchive($context.context)
------------------8<----------------------------------------------
This would allow me to generate hirachical pages
with the
appropreate
metadata (one page -> one directory, one space
-> one project to
display) without creating to much junk inside of xwiki (only latest
information on structure is valid).
I think you could use the scheduler application [1] with a
groovy job to sync you wiki with you repo, at night for
example. This groovy job could loop over you synergy projects
set all the desired datas in wiki pages and reset archives of
all those documents.
[1] :
http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/SchedulerApplication
bundled with XE since 1.2, see the Scheduler space.
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