Indeed, the farm use case is important, I propose to focus on implementing the fall-back from GLOBAL to WIKI visibility for translations and leave the Menu Application open to subwikis.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Costi, > > This is closely related with the discussion we had on XWIKI-12736. > Applying the same mecanism used for macro scope to translations is > definitely the best way to mitigate this issue, but not the simplest one. > Hope it helps. > > -- > Denis Gervalle > SOFTEC sa - CEO > On 7 Aug 2018, 14:29 +0200, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]>, > wrote: > > We also have the FARM use case, where menus in theory should be able to > be > > defined in subwikis and be independent of the main wiki. > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 2:49 PM Marius Dumitru Florea < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Note that XS has the Menu Application installed only on the main wiki > ATM. > > > Also, the reason I used GLOBAL visibility for the Menu macro is > because I > > > wanted to support global menus (defined on the main wiki and visible > > > everywhere). Installing the Menu Application both on the main wiki and > on a > > > subwiki can lead to unexpected results so I would not recommend it. The > > > question is whether installing the Menu Application only on the > subwiki is > > > a valid use case or not. > > > > > > We could also restrict the installation to the main wiki *only until* > we > > > add support for GLOBAL to WIKI visibility fallback for translations. > +1 for > > > this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Marius > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Costi Listar <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > While working on https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-14037, I > noticed > > > > that the Menu Macro has GLOBAL visibility. This implies that Menu > > > > Translations should have GLOBAL visibility as well. But this will > cause > > > > issues if you install the Menu Application on a sub-wiki because > there is > > > > no fallback yet from GLOBAL visibility to WIKI in case of > translations. > > > > In order to avoid this problem, I propose to restrict the > installation > > > of > > > > the Menu Application to the main wiki. > > > > > > > > I am +1 for this. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Costi > > > > > > > >
