[xwiki-users] Advice needed for new XWiki Enterprise 7.4.4 Setup
Hello Everyone, I have managed to install XWiki Enterprise v.7.4.4 and have a few questions before really getting started. There are a few things that are unclear to me. Here is an overview for what it will be used for: We have several teams: Computer Support, Sales, Warehouse, QA, Ops/Development, Office Administration. XWiki will be used as a knowledge-base for known issues, procedures and file hosting. We want to have everyone be able to search for and create new pages/articles in any wiki except for Office Administration and perhaps 1 other. Also, for example, you are in the "Support" wiki and perform a search - we want search results from content in the "Warehouse" wiki to be included in the results. 1. Would you recommend that I create a "Wiki" for each department? 2. When creating the user accounts, should I create them while in the "Home" wiki (which is called Home by default installation), or am I doing that incorrectly? I am logged in as the Admin user and going to Administer Wiki > Users and Groups > Users > Add New User. 3. When installing extensions/applications - should I "Install" or "Install on farm"? I'm not quite sure what the "farm" is. Is it the Sandbox? I ask because I tried to create a "new Wiki" and it is like I have to start from scratch again and create those user accounts in that wiki as well and adjust any cosmetic changes, changes to the skin, applications/extensions. 4. As easy as it seems, I am having a very difficult time with the Panels Wizard. I have several other questions, but feel I shouldn't ask them until the above are answered. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Advice-needed-for-new-XWiki-Enterprise-7-4... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Polydectus84 <mike.m@telikin.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I have managed to install XWiki Enterprise v.7.4.4 and have a few questions before really getting started. There are a few things that are unclear to me. Here is an overview for what it will be used for:
We have several teams: Computer Support, Sales, Warehouse, QA, Ops/Development, Office Administration. XWiki will be used as a knowledge-base for known issues, procedures and file hosting.
We want to have everyone be able to search for and create new pages/articles in any wiki except for Office Administration and perhaps 1 other. Also, for example, you are in the "Support" wiki and perform a search - we want search results from content in the "Warehouse" wiki to be included in the results.
1. Would you recommend that I create a "Wiki" for each department? 2. When creating the user accounts, should I create them while in the "Home" wiki (which is called Home by default installation), or am I doing that incorrectly? I am logged in as the Admin user and going to Administer Wiki > Users and Groups > Users > Add New User. 3. When installing extensions/applications - should I "Install" or "Install on farm"? I'm not quite sure what the "farm" is. Is it the Sandbox?
I ask because I tried to create a "new Wiki" and it is like I have to start from scratch again and create those user accounts in that wiki as well and adjust any cosmetic changes, changes to the skin, applications/extensions.
Should should probably take a look at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization but here is a short summary related to you questions. When you install XWiki what you end up with is a "wiki" which happen to also be the main wiki of what we call a "farm" (a farm being nothing more than a container of wikis with no real visual existence, it's just a synonym of a XWiki software instance in practice). So to answer your first question here are the main differences for you between a wiki and a space: * applications are installed at wiki level so if you don't want your team to share the same applications data you should probably have different wikis * each wikis has it's own user and they can also use the users of the main wikis * each wikis can have it's own domain name (but you could also make each space have it's own domain name with some URL rewriting in front of XWiki with Apache for example) If you don't have strong desire of isolating your teams you should probably stay with a single wiki (which is easier to manage) and a dedicated space for each of them where they can but their stuffs specific stuff and make the rest of the wiki common to all teams.
4. As easy as it seems, I am having a very difficult time with the Panels Wizard.
I have several other questions, but feel I shouldn't ask them until the above are answered.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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That was very helpful, thank you. I have decided to go the route of pages/dashboard and nested pages. It just makes more sense. I will create another wiki to contain the sensitive information and give certain users access rights. This is a bit unrelated to my question, but I searched the forum and FAQs/guides but couldn't find an up to date answer. I am looking for a template to be able to use for a hardware model of a computer. I have been using the "Encyclopedia" template and altering it from there. I suppose my real question is how can I save my altered version as an actual template, and name it "Hardware Model Template" or something like that so if someone chooses that template, they can just fill in the blanks? How would I go about creating a template? XWiki software is very good. By far the best wiki software that I have used, and I've tried almost all of them. I am confident that we are going to stick with it. -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Advice-needed-for-new-XWiki-Enterprise-7-4... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Polydectus84 <mike.m@telikin.com> wrote:
That was very helpful, thank you. I have decided to go the route of pages/dashboard and nested pages. It just makes more sense. I will create another wiki to contain the sensitive information and give certain users access rights.
This is a bit unrelated to my question, but I searched the forum and FAQs/guides but couldn't find an up to date answer. I am looking for a template to be able to use for a hardware model of a computer. I have been using the "Encyclopedia" template and altering it from there. I suppose my real question is how can I save my altered version as an actual template, and name it "Hardware Model Template" or something like that so if someone chooses that template, they can just fill in the blanks? How would I go about creating a template?
You can do this from the Wiki Admnistration, see http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Administration+Applicat... . Hope this helps, Marius
XWiki software is very good. By far the best wiki software that I have used, and I've tried almost all of them. I am confident that we are going to stick with it.
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Hi Mike,
On 08 Sep 2016, at 15:37, Polydectus84 <mike.m@telikin.com> wrote:
That was very helpful, thank you. I have decided to go the route of pages/dashboard and nested pages. It just makes more sense. I will create another wiki to contain the sensitive information and give certain users access rights.
This is a bit unrelated to my question, but I searched the forum and FAQs/guides but couldn't find an up to date answer. I am looking for a template to be able to use for a hardware model of a computer. I have been using the "Encyclopedia" template and altering it from there. I suppose my real question is how can I save my altered version as an actual template, and name it "Hardware Model Template" or something like that so if someone chooses that template, they can just fill in the blanks? How would I go about creating a template?
XWiki software is very good. By far the best wiki software that I have used, and I've tried almost all of them. I am confident that we are going to stick with it.
Thanks for those kinds words. I’m really happy about that :) I’ve taken the liberty to put this sentence as a quote on https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/Testimonials. I hope this is ok with you (feel free to edit it and make modifications to it if you wish!). I just wanted to point out one other option for you which is to get help from one of the companies sponsoring the development of the XWik open source software. This allows to get dedicated help for your needs with guaranteed response time by the developers of XWiki to get faster to your goals. As importantly, it’s also a nice way to give back to the XWiki project since those companies inject back the money into developing XWiki. In case you’re interested, see https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Supporters/SponsoringCompanies/ to see what those companies are sponsoring and http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport for what they offer. Thanks! -Vincent
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