August 2006 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

Questions about the free hosted xwiki.
by Ryan Wood 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hello, I have been putting a lot of time into researching and testing wiki's to use for a work and document collaboration intranet for our non-profit organization that has highly non-technical users. After tested hosted wikis and installing about 4 different wikis (mediawiki, pmwiki, wikkawiki, etc) on our hosted web server (startlogic.com) and not being happy, I tried a xwiki.com wiki and I like the functunality and features. It does not seem possible to install xwiki on a hosted web server (correct me if I am wrong) , so I have some questions about the free xwiki I am currently using: 1. How much storage space does it offer per file and for the the whole wiki? What other limits are there to the free version? As an under-funded non-profit we are unable to afford a professional hosted version. 2. I am a big fan of hosted services (gmail, salesforce, writely, etc.) but xwiki.com is not quite that large and known of a service host. If we actually decide to built our intranet on xwiki.com, will we run into problems with downtime? How high are the risks of the servers being shut down and losing all critical data? 3. Currently we are without time or resources to setup our own server, but eventually may want to set up our own server to run it. Will it be possible to port our hosted xwiki onto our own server without losing data? Thank you so much for your help on this matter -- Ryan Wood www.absoluteontheweb.com

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Rendering text from other documents' objects
by THOMAS, BRIAN M (SBCSI) 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

What's the proper way (if any) to get a piece of text rendered in the context of another document? One of my users has created aggregate pages that include fields of objects from other documents, rather like XWiki's blogging feature. However, when one of these object fields references attachments in their containing documents, these references (via the {image} macro) fail when rendered in the context of the aggregate document. I have tried replacing the direct reference to the field with $includedDoc.getRenderedContent($includedObject.text), and a few other tricks, like XWikiContext.setDoc with the XWikiDocument object of the objects' home document, without success. I can, of course, have him qualify the references to the attachments so that they are absolute (at least, relative to the wiki rather than to the referring document), but that's not nice. brain[sic]

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Re: [xwiki-users] Style change on some xwiki.com wikis?
by Robin Fernandes 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

The problem seems to be that elements.css is no longer loading correctly: http://openmpt.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/skin/XWiki/MySkin/elements.css It is imported by xwiki.css : http://openmpt.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/skin/XWiki/MySkin/xwiki.css . This seems to be happening to at least one other wiki, which I believe is also on the "pro" system: http://eitc2006.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/skin/XWiki/MySkin/xwiki.css http://eitc2006.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/skin/XWiki/MySkin/elements.css Regards, Robin On 26/08/06, Robin Fernandes <robin(a)soal.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe it's temporary, but it looks like there was a change to some of > the default styles on xwiki.com (at least on my wikis, which had been > moved to on the "pro" server). Font suddenly changed to Times New > Roman and there's a gap above the more actions menu making it hard to > use, amongst other things. > > In case anyone is having the same problem, adding the following CSS to > the stylesheets.vm template (after the inclusion of the external CSS > files) seems to help: > > body { > margin: 0; > padding: 0em; > min-width: 50em; > font-size: 75.01%; /* 12px [1] */ > line-height: 1.5em; /* 18px [2] */ > background: white; > color: black; > font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Luxi Sans", "Helvetica", sans-serif; > } > > I'll leave this wiki in a "broken" state for a little while, while I > try to figure out exactly what changed. :) > http://openmpt.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ > > Regards, > Robin >

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xwiki automation
by Michael Redinger 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am looking for ways to automate some important parts of the XWiki administration. We are using LDAP, so user provisioning is not a problem. We need to - - create groups - - manage the members of the groups (add, possibly delete) - - create spaces - - set the rights for a web (to a group or a user) I first thought that this was a job for XML-RPC, but the developers' page says that only the documents functions of the confluence RPC API are implemented (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/XWikiXMLRPC) So I think this means this has to be done in Java or Groovy (maybe using a wiki page and passing the user/group/space using parameters). However, at this point I am completely lost. How can this be done? I am not even sure about the steps necessary to achieve this ... Or can this done more easily? Maybe create group pages dynamically by querying an SQL server or something like that? I would be thankful for any directions - steps necessary, sample implementations, actually any kind of Java (or Groovy) script using the XWiki API. Thanks, Michael - -- Michael Redinger Zentraler Informatikdienst (Central IT Services) Universitaet Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 13 Tel.: ++43 512 507 2335 6020 Innsbruck Fax.: ++43 512 507 2944 Austria Mail: Michael.Redinger(a)uibk.ac.at BB98 D2FE 0F2C 2658 3780 3CB1 0FD7 A9D9 65C2 C11D http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c102mr/mred-pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE8uzcD9ep2WXCwR0RAuzbAJsFQ9HMwxxPBV9n6qUdQTIEEQ6+vwCgwoRR KDCWZ1sBNj6UR/MENzdp7HA= =4dmH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Section Edits
by andrew_baptist＠adp.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

One of the listed features of the 0.9.1252 release was the ability to edit sections of a page rather than the whole page. I have upgraded my test server to this version (using the previous database) but do not see how to enable partial edits (or how to define a section). If someone is using this feature can you provide information on how to use it. Thank you Andrew Baptist

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wysiwyg
by joe.greenawalt＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hi, I recently installed XWiki Version 0.9.840, and when I go to edit, there is no wysiwyg option. Is this a setting i need to turn on, a module, or an installation problem? No really sure where to look to give more info, except i followed the following instructions (one note, there wasn't "xwiki.store.hibernate.updateschema=1" option in my xwiki.cfg file: Note � This install documentation is for most Linux installations, with Tomcat and MySQL standard downloads from the Apache and MySQL web sites. Pre-requisites � Download and install Apache Tomcat 5.0.28 or 5.5.9 � Download and install MySQL 4.1 (works also with 4.0) � Download the latest XWiki version � Download the latest XWiki database Instructions � IMPORTANT For versioning of international characters to work, you need to launch your tomcat engine with -Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1 and add LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 as an environment variable. The test database contains international characters so you need these settings. For a UTF-8 setup please check Characters Sets � Copy xwiki-0-x-yyy.war and rename it to xwiki.war in the tomcat/webapps directory (rename before copying if tomcat is already running). � Create the xwiki database in mysql using the command "create database xwiki" from mysql command line client � Grant mysql access with the following command: grant all privileges on xwiki.* to xwiki(a)127.0.0.1 identified by 'xwiki' ; (if you get connections problems try localhost instead of the IP address) � Download xwiki-db-x.zip and unzip it. Import the mysql dump into the 'xwiki' database using "mysql -u xwiki -pxwiki xwiki < xwiki-db-x.txt" from command prompt � If you decide to use a different password or a different machine than the web server machine for you database, edit hibernate.cfg.xml to change the database configuration. � Launch tomcat once or extract xwiki.war in the xwiki directory manually (in JBoss extract manually xwiki.war in a directory named xwiki.war) � IMPORTANT: Update the xwiki.cfg configuration file to add xwiki.store.hibernate.updateschema=1 to make sure the database will be upgraded at startup (this variable can be then set to 0) � IMPORTANT: Edit xwiki/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml and modify your database connection. With a local install of xwiki it should be jdbc:mysql://localhost/xwiki � If you want to use bigger attachments than 1Mb you need to change the packet size setting in Mysql. See Config Larger Attachments. Testing your install � Connect to the xwiki application at: http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome � View users at http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/XWikiUsers � The default admin user is Admin with password admin � Add a user at http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/RegisterNewUser � You can edit global rights at: http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?xpage=editright… Troubleshooting � Common issues can be jar conflicts between the XWiki application and the Tomcat engine: � Sometimes it might be necessary to copy your database driver to the tomcat/common/lib directory from the xwiki/WEB-INF/lib directory (e.g. mysql-connector-java-#.#.#-stable-bin.jar ) as well as the commons-pool-1.1.jar and commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar � Sometimes you might need to copy jta.jar to the subdirectory tomcat/common/lib from the xwiki/WEB-INF/lib directory Install on Linux, Tomcat, MySQL (en) -1- XWiki . AdminGuide . Install on Linux, Tomcat, MySQL Creator: Date: 2005/09/12 15:29 Last Author: xwiki:XWiki.LudovicDubost Date: 2005/09/12 15:31 Copyright 2005 (c) XWiki.org Thanks in advance.

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"Clone" another documents objects when creating a new document
by Esbach, Brandon 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

Hi All, Is there any way to clone all objects in an existing document to a different document with one server request? So that a template document can be maintained with default object values; and can be brought in painlessly to a new document. Brandon Esbach Software Engineer M/A-Com Eurotec Operations LoughMahon Technology Park, Skehard Road, Blackrock, Cork, Ireland Tel +353 21 4808305

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Problem with "save" action on objects (org.hibernate.StaleStateException)
by Xavier MOGHRABI 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Dear all, I've recently migrate my XWiki installation to an other server after a hard drive crash. I've copied my XWiki installation as it was and upgrade from Tomcat 5.5.15 to Tomcat 5.5.17. Tomcat is able to start correctly however the behaviour of XWiki has been affected since I can't anymore use the "save" action on an object. For instance, if I reach the "Class Editor" page (XWiki.XWikiClasses) : - click on "PhotoAlbumClass" to create a new photo album - create a new photo Album called "Photos.MyAlbum" - I can see a form but if I enter a title and a description and then I save, I get a blank page without any object attached. - I have the following errors in my logs : 10:06:59,441 ERROR TP-Processor30 http://manage.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/save/Photos/MyAlbum AbstractBatcher:doExecuteBatch:60 - Exception executing batch: org.hibernate.StaleStateException: Batch update returned unexpected row count from update: 0 actual row count: 0 expected: 1 at org.hibernate.jdbc.BatchingBatcher.checkRowCount(BatchingBatcher.java:92) ... 10:06:59,442 ERROR TP-Processor30 http://manage.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/save/Photos/MyAlbum AbstractFlushingEventListener:performExecutions:277 - Could not synchronize database state with session org.hibernate.StaleStateException: Batch update returned unexpected row count from update: 0 actual row count: 0 expected: 1 ... Does somebody know what is wrong is my configuration ? -- Xavier MOGHRABI - Consortium ObjectWeb Jabber: moghrabi(a)jabber.objectweb.org - Phone: +33 4 76 61 52 35

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AW: [xwiki-users] WebSearch doesn't work
by sebastian.steinfeld＠ropardo.de 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Thank you for your help :) now the search-function is working :) Is there a tutorial where I can read these basic things? I couldn't find it in the documentations on "xwiki.org". Sebastian -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: jeremi joslin [mailto:jeremi23@gmail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. August 2006 10:55 An: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] WebSearch doesn't work OH, ok. You started from a blank wiki so it's normal. You need to copy the code from http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?xpage=code to your wiki. jeremi On 8/24/06, sebastian.steinfeld(a)ropardo.de <sebastian.steinfeld(a)ropardo.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'am using postgresql, the database was empty after the first startup of xwiki. > > I'am supposed I created wiki sites. > > In the beginning I set up a few spaces: "projecta", "projectb", "java" and "test" > In these spaces I created a few pages and tried to search, but I got no results. > > To set up these pages I entered the Main page at: > http://rpsedev06:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome > After this I edited the URI to: > http://rpsedev06:8080/xwiki/bin/view/java/welcome > and put up some content. > > In the next step I linked these pages to the Main page. > > When I started to Search in the "Main"-space or any other space the search-action goes to the page: > http://rpsedev06:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch > but don't show any content. > > Thanks, > Sebastian > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: jeremi joslin [mailto:jeremi23@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. August 2006 10:10 > An: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org > Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] WebSearch doesn't work > > Hi, > Can you give me more detail on the pages you created? Is it a blog entry? > > Do you use the demo database? > > Jeremi > > On 8/24/06, sebastian.steinfeld(a)ropardo.de <sebastian.steinfeld(a)ropardo.de> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'am new to XWiki and trying to configure it for our intranet. > > In the beginning I set up different spaces with topics and some > > contents to test it. > > > > But the WebSearch doesn't work. > > It doesn't find keywords in the contents. > > > > I'am using XWiki 0.9.840, which is installed on Tomcat 5.5 > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > Greetings, > > Sebastian > > > > > > -- > > You receive this message as a subscriber of the > > xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org mailing list. > > To unsubscribe: > > mailto:xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org > > For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help > > ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: > > http://www.objectweb.org/wws > > > > > > > > > -- > jeremi > > > > > > -- > You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org mailing list. > To unsubscribe: mailto:xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org > For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help > ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: > http://www.objectweb.org/wws > > > -- jeremi

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AW: [xwiki-users] WebSearch doesn't work
by sebastian.steinfeld＠ropardo.de 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Hi, I'am using postgresql, the database was empty after the first startup of xwiki. I'am supposed I created wiki sites. In the beginning I set up a few spaces: "projecta", "projectb", "java" and "test" In these spaces I created a few pages and tried to search, but I got no results. To set up these pages I entered the Main page at: http://rpsedev06:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome After this I edited the URI to: http://rpsedev06:8080/xwiki/bin/view/java/welcome and put up some content. In the next step I linked these pages to the Main page. When I started to Search in the "Main"-space or any other space the search-action goes to the page: http://rpsedev06:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch but don't show any content. Thanks, Sebastian -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: jeremi joslin [mailto:jeremi23@gmail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. August 2006 10:10 An: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] WebSearch doesn't work Hi, Can you give me more detail on the pages you created? Is it a blog entry? Do you use the demo database? Jeremi On 8/24/06, sebastian.steinfeld(a)ropardo.de <sebastian.steinfeld(a)ropardo.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'am new to XWiki and trying to configure it for our intranet. > In the beginning I set up different spaces with topics and some > contents to test it. > > But the WebSearch doesn't work. > It doesn't find keywords in the contents. > > I'am using XWiki 0.9.840, which is installed on Tomcat 5.5 > > Thanks for any help. > > Greetings, > Sebastian > > > -- > You receive this message as a subscriber of the > xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org mailing list. > To unsubscribe: > mailto:xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org > For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help > ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: > http://www.objectweb.org/wws > > > -- jeremi

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