On 18 Aug 2017, at 16:29, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
I’ve created a design page for this at http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/ bin/view/Proposal/ExtensionEntryPoints#Attachments
And I’ve also proposed a new way to plug the entry point with the “Open” button.
Seems nice. Why is it a dropdown? what are the options?
ok I was sure you’d ask. It’s not actually :) I just took some html from another place and forgot to modify this… Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
Let me know what you think.
Thanks -Vincent
On 14 Oct 2016, at 16:10, Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
We have 2 issues right now when installing an extension in XWiki:
1) It’s not clear where is the entry point of that extension. - Example1: an app that is only for admins and only has a ConfigurableClass - Example2: an app that provides a macro and doesn’t have a UI
2) Even when an extension registers itself in the Applications Panel, the user still need to refresh the page or navigate away to see it.
Proposal ========
* Introduce the concept of Entry point (a.k.a home page) in Extension metadata * Have the EM UI display the extension’s entry point (when there’s one) after having installed the extension so that the user can click on it and be taken to the home page of the extension.
This would make extensions more discoverable IMO.
Implementation Details ==================
* Some maven extension metadata properties in pom.xml
* A format to represent an entry point. It shouldn’t be a full URL since that needs to be computed at runtime. Basically it should contain: ** The document reference ** The action to use (view, admin, etc) - optional, should default to “view" ** The query string to use - optional, should default to an empty query string
This corresponds to the notion of ResourceReference (EntityResourceReference to be precise). However we don’t have any textual representation of it ATM.
WDYT? Good idea? Bad idea?
Thanks -Vincent