On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea > <[email protected]> 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. > Yes. > > > 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 ? > The XClass Preferences page would have a XWikiPreferences object, just like page (space) and wiki preferences pages. In the paragraph above I was actually indicating how the XClass Preferences page can be determined: either using a naming convention or using configuration (similar to the way the XClass sheet is configured). > > > > > 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 >
