Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:44 PM, tihughes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> HI Thomas, >> >> I'm exteremly new to XWiki and have been looking for a way to do a >> particular element but I just need some slight clarification if its what >> this tool will be for (or if I'm being dense and not realising how to do >> it already with the documentation I've read). >> >> We are looking to have several Wikis setup for each of our departments >> internally at our company and we want them all to have a specific panel >> of global links - this 'Global Panel' will solely have links into the >> other assorted wikis and maybe a few other handy links for our own use. >> What I want to know is: will this new tool allow us to make changes to >> the first wiki we built's Global Panel and then push that change to all >> the others? >> >> Currently each wiki is seperate as such but all are linked to via our >> main wiki and present in the wiki farm. I've been racking my brain over >> this and if this tool will allow us to do this then that would be >> awesome. Will this tool you are developing allow other resources to be >> edited on one wiki and auto populate the same areas on other wikis too? >> >> I'm highly curious as otherwise we may have to change our planned >> infrastructure. >> >> Thanks for the info thus far though and I will be watching this with >> great interest :) >> > > If what you're trying to do only involves having the exact same panel > replicated in all your subwikis, it can already be done as of right now :-) > > To do this, here's what you need to do: > > - Let's assume that your main panel is on www.yourdomain.org and is > called Panels.MainPanel > - Go to your first subwiki's admin page in edit object mode > subwiki1.yourdomain.org/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=object > - Find the panels field (either left or right panels depending on your > preference) > - In the field, put the panel name in the following way: > xwiki:Panels.MainPanel > - Save the page > - Repeat with all your subwikis > > Now, your subwiki uses a panel stored on your main wiki. Each time you > change the panel, its changes will be reflected on all subwikis. Basically, > you can reference and include pages from other wikis anywhere in your > subwikis using the following syntax : wikiname:SpaceName.PageName
Note that this is how the "XWiki Ecosystem" panel on all xwiki.org sites is working. Take for example http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Main/ and http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Main/ -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
