Re: [xwiki-users] Display external directory tree under xwiki
Hi folks, Just another thought on the topic: displaying external directory structures with metadata under XWiki. The major goal I have to achieve is to provide readonly access to a directory structure with associated documents for download. I have read in the xwiki docs on optimization that it is possible to disable versioning of documents for performance gain. - Is it possible to disable versioning for specific spaces? This would allow me to generate hirachical pages with the appropreate metadata (one page - one directory, one space - one project to display) without creating to much junk inside of xwiki (only latest information on structure is valid). Does this sound reasonable - or do you think I missed some important extension capabilities of xwiki? Any hint is highly appreciated. Best regards Joerg ___ Jörg Gellien Otto Group Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA Otto (GmbH Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691 [EMAIL PROTECTED] · www.ottogroup.com ___ AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762 vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken · Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto (Vorsitzender) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gellien, Joerg Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. März 2008 16:39 An: 'users@xwiki.org' Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki Hi Guillaume, In the ancient days before xwiki we used to checkout a project from version control (Telelogic Synergy) into the file system. To access it from Web we put the base directory under apache htdocs using directory navigation feature provided by apache server. The major drawback was/is - no access control (ok htaccess - not realy maintainable in our case) - no possibility to add meta data like version, author e.a. from version control - no special filters on file types (e.g. only show office documents for project a (separate directory structure), all documents for project b (separate directory structure) My first idea is to provide a plugin to access filesystem starting from a root-directory and generate a tree like structure. On top of this I can provide a filter mechanism and adding meta data to the display. It should look something like this: http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/ProjectA/ContentFromVersionControl (Page content) This page contains detailed data from project myspecialProject~jgellien from Synergy repository myrepo: myspecialProject~jgellien |-doc | |- myDescription.doc (version: 1.0, last changed: jgellien) | |- more docs to come (version: 1.1, last changed: jgellien) | |-subdir |- projectplan.xls (version: 1.1, last modified: jgellien) The documentation is directly maintained inside version control with a predefined directory structure. This structure should be preserved in the presentation layer. Updating the documentation could be done with a chron job. Perhaps this goes into the direction of WebDav and ViewVC but I am no expert on this field. Do you have any advise how to proceed? Any help is highly appreciated. Best regards Joerg ___ Jörg Gellien Otto Group Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA Otto (GmbH Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691 [EMAIL PROTECTED] · www.ottogroup.com ___ AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762 vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken · Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto (Vorsitzender) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:59:04 +0100 From: Guillaume Lerouge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki enterprose 1.3 To: XWiki Users users@xwiki.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Jorg, first of all thanks for this new great release of XWiki Enterprise 1.3. I am on the list for about 6 weeks now and it is a real pleasure to see the flow of work done here
[xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki enterprose 1.3
Dear XWiki Committers, first of all thanks for this new great release of XWiki Enterprise 1.3. I am on the list for about 6 weeks now and it is a real pleasure to see the flow of work done here. Now to my topic for today. To setup a departmental wiki I have the requirement to display a directory structure with download option from within a wiki page. We use version control system to archive documentation for specific projects. In most cases these are office documents (doc, xls,ppt) but might be other formats as well. Does anyone allready has a solution for this requirement? For me it is no option to link these documents manually as attachments. Furthermore I like to use the rights system to restrict access to the tree. Hope I made myself clear. Keep up the excellent work! Best regards Jörg ___ Jörg Gellien Otto Group Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA Otto (GmbH Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691 [EMAIL PROTECTED] · www.ottogroup.com http://www.ottogroup.com/ ___ AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762 vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken · Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto (Vorsitzender) ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki
Hi Guillaume, In the ancient days before xwiki we used to checkout a project from version control (Telelogic Synergy) into the file system. To access it from Web we put the base directory under apache htdocs using directory navigation feature provided by apache server. The major drawback was/is - no access control (ok htaccess - not realy maintainable in our case) - no possibility to add meta data like version, author e.a. from version control - no special filters on file types (e.g. only show office documents for project a (separate directory structure), all documents for project b (separate directory structure) My first idea is to provide a plugin to access filesystem starting from a root-directory and generate a tree like structure. On top of this I can provide a filter mechanism and adding meta data to the display. It should look something like this: http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/ProjectA/ContentFromVersionControl (Page content) This page contains detailed data from project myspecialProject~jgellien from Synergy repository myrepo: myspecialProject~jgellien |-doc | |- myDescription.doc (version: 1.0, last changed: jgellien) | |- more docs to come (version: 1.1, last changed: jgellien) | |-subdir |- projectplan.xls (version: 1.1, last modified: jgellien) The documentation is directly maintained inside version control with a predefined directory structure. This structure should be preserved in the presentation layer. Updating the documentation could be done with a chron job. Perhaps this goes into the direction of WebDav and ViewVC but I am no expert on this field. Do you have any advise how to proceed? Any help is highly appreciated. Best regards Joerg ___ Jörg Gellien Otto Group Systementwickler · Software Qualitätsmanagement und Synergy Administration · IL-BI-ZA Otto (GmbH Co KG) · Wandsbeker Straße 3-7 · 22172 Hamburg Telefon +49 (0) 40 64 61 5691 · Fax +49 (0) 40 64 64 5691 [EMAIL PROTECTED] · www.ottogroup.com ___ AG Hamburg, HRA 62024, Persönlich haftend: Verwaltungsgesellschaft Otto mbH, Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 13762 vertreten durch: Hans-Otto Schrader (Vorsitzender) · Dr. Rainer Hillebrand (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender) · Alexander Birken · Dr. Willi Darr · Diethard Gagelmann · Peter Gelsdorf · Dr. Wolfgang Linder · Jürgen Schulte-Laggenbeck · Dr. Winfried Zimmermann Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto (Ehrenvorsitzender) · Dr. Michael Otto (Vorsitzender) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:59:04 +0100 From: Guillaume Lerouge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Display directory tree under xwiki enterprose 1.3 To: XWiki Users users@xwiki.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Jorg, first of all thanks for this new great release of XWiki Enterprise 1.3. I am on the list for about 6 weeks now and it is a real pleasure to see the flow of work done here. Thanks :-) Now to my topic for today. To setup a departmental wiki I have the requirement to display a directory structure with download option from within a wiki page. We use version control system to archive documentation for specific projects. In most cases these are office documents (doc, xls,ppt) but might be other formats as well. Does anyone allready has a solution for this requirement? For me it is no option to link these documents manually as attachments. Furthermore I like to use the rights system to restrict access to the tree. Hope I made myself clear. Not quite. I didn't understand this : - Where will your files be stored - in an external system or as attachments to a wiki page ? - If your files are stored in an external system and you want to provide access to them from the wiki, you need to tell us what system this is (there is some work going on with WebDav or SVN integration for instance) - If your files are stored in your wiki - then it is quite easy to generate a list of all the files attached to a given wiki page on that page itself. It will save you the time of having to edit the page to add a link towards new files every time you upload one. Thanks, Guillaume ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
