On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea <mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I have an XWiki application that has a template provider which allows the > users to create application entries anywhere on the wiki using the Create > Page menu. I would like to control entirely how application entries are > displayed to the user. I can do this partially from my sheet but: > > * I can't control the panels. I would like to display panels that are > specific to my application whenever a user is viewing an application entry, > no matter where the application entry is located. > * I can't control the color theme or the icon theme. I would like to use a > custom color theme and icon theme without affecting the other pages from > the wiki. > * I can't control the layout (the skin). I can hide the extra tabs from the > sheet but I can't hide a panel column or control the panel column width. > > One solution to fix my problem is to introduce XClass Preferences, same as > we have page and wiki preferences. XClass preferences would have priority
> over page and wiki preferences, inheriting from them. We can implement it I guess technically you mean space and wiki preferences. > using either a naming convention, <ClassName>Preferences, or using some > xobject on the XClass, similar to the ClassSheetBinding xobject. What kind of object ? XWikiPreferences or a special kind ? > > Do you see any problem with solution? I can think of one: access rights. > Does it make sense to have access rights specific to an XClass? E.g. "only > this group can edit instances of this XClass". > > Do you think it is worth implementing? Another solution would be to allow > the sheet to overwrite some of the preferences, but the problem is that the > sheet is executed after the page HTML has started to be written to the > response. > > Thanks, > Marius -- Thomas Mortagne
