[xwiki-users] features for dealing with known comment spammers in XWiki?

2012-06-09 Thread Niels Mayer
This is either a feature request or a request for discussing solutions to the issue of known comment spammers against XWiki installs. There's known spammers like davycrokk...@hotmail.com (see http://www.nielsmayer.com/bin/view/XWiki/DavyCrokkett ) which have to be managed and curtailed for any XW

[xwiki-users] using Jelastic to host xwiki 3.5

2012-03-21 Thread Niels Mayer
Comment I posted to http://blog.jelastic.com/2012/02/21/how-to-deploy-xwiki-to-jelastic-cloud-step-by-step-tutorial/ stating a few additional steps needed for http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation . Thanks for making this available. Jelastic i

[xwiki-users] FYI -- Fedora tomcat6-6.0.26-3 config for security improvement makes OpenOffice server not startup

2010-11-01 Thread Niels Mayer
In case someone decides to follow the security improvement in Fedora's Tomcat6 brought on by recent update to tomcat6-6.0.26-3 ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640837 ) by changing /etc/passwd 'tomcat' user to /sbin/nologin instead of /bin/sh ... Making this change causes the openoff

Re: [xwiki-users] OpenOffice Importer AdminSheet 'Inadequate priviledges'

2010-09-30 Thread Niels Mayer
Looks like I attached my response/solution to the wrong thread regarding openoffice. Sorry for the confusion :-) Niels http://nielsmayer.com ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [xwiki-users] R: R: R: Office Importer: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: invalid templateProfileDir [solved]

2010-09-30 Thread Niels Mayer
[attached message/solution to correct thread this time] I solved a solved a similar problem running on Fedora Linux using its standard fedora-packaged Tomcat/httpd/openoffice and Sun's Java. The problem is that the error message is deceptive. If you run the application directly, instead of from

Re: [xwiki-users] OpenOffice Importer AdminSheet 'Inadequate priviledges'

2010-09-29 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:08 AM, afra wrote: >> OpenOffice Import works fine on my windows machine. There is no problem with > either an internal or externally managed instance. Still I cannot seem to > get rid of the priviledges statement when trying to restart the server > through the admin int

Re: [xwiki-users] Reverse proxy problems

2010-04-15 Thread Niels Mayer
... Or you can use http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Performances#HModProxyAJPConfiguration (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy_ajp.html ) example: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf : ProxyRequests Off ## NPM: see > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuid

Re: [xwiki-users] Getting at javascript variables

2010-04-07 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Mike Davis wrote: > > I have javascript code that will get user input from a simple input form, > but I need to use that input to query some groovy objects. If I understand > correctly, groovy code is parsed on the server, then the javascript is > parsed on the use

[xwiki-users] xe 2.2.4: email account activation fails unless "unregistered user" given view rights

2010-04-06 Thread Niels Mayer
After registering on a recently announced 2.2.4-based site and having it fail, I tried the same in my Xwiki setup and it failed too. The issue is that /xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=globaladmin§ion=Rights#|t=usersandgroupstable&p=1&uorg=users&clsname=XWiki.XWikiGlobalRights&wiki=lo

Re: [xwiki-users] GWTWorld.de

2010-04-06 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > A pity (for me) that it's in German though ;) > There's always the google translate plugin in chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=173424&hl=en Sometimes it translates funny The network is shooting starts

Re: [xwiki-users] xe 2.2.4: regression or operator error in OpenOffice server?

2010-04-06 Thread Niels Mayer
On further investigation, the issues I'm having with the Xwiki openoffice importer in Fedora12 and OpenOffice 3.1.1 are "operator error." Or rather, since the last time I used the openoffice converter in Xwiki, an additional package must be installed. Without it, the '-headless' argument for openo

[xwiki-users] xe 2.2.4: regression or operator error in OpenOffice server?

2010-04-01 Thread Niels Mayer
After upgrading to 2.2.4, I wanted to test the openoffice server. In the root-wiki, in the openoffice admin app, I see my setup as from before (back when it worked -- last time i tested was around 2.0): Server type Internally managed (local) Server port 8100 Auto start No Server path /usr/l

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] Important regression in 2.2.3 release !

2010-03-26 Thread Niels Mayer
> This bug prevents rights to be correctly saved unless you manually > select either groups or users radio button first. See > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise223. I saw that regression last night when upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2.3. There's also two other regressi

Re: [xwiki-users] row was deleted by another transaction

2010-03-16 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > Theoretically, this bug was fixed (see > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-299 ) by manually moving > existing affected properties to the new correct type when a problematic > class change occurs. Why does it continue to happen, beat

Re: [xwiki-users] MySQL storage using MyISAM engine.

2010-01-16 Thread Niels Mayer
BTW a few more interesting links and excepts on this subject. Seems like if one can devote a certain amount of RAM to Mysql, this could potentially be a performace win for a larger Xwiki install: http://www.basysadmin.com/procedures.html > Configure mysql (InnoDB) to use hugepages. Hugepages are

Re: [xwiki-users] MySQL storage using MyISAM engine.

2010-01-16 Thread Niels Mayer
Given that the current implementation is innodb for now, one possibility to consider, at least on some platforms is to use large pages for better OS performance. (If anybody tries this, would love to hear your results.). Wouldn't large pages solve some of the efficiency issues for documents using

Re: [xwiki-users] Problem with fresh new 2.1.1 XEM install

2010-01-07 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Gaëtan GUYODO wrote: > I tried to force xwiki.url.protocol=https in xwiki.cfg, without results. > I tried to create another wiki, same problem. > I tried to add the full URL as alias, doesn't work ! > > => I don't have any trouble accessing by > http://localhost:8

[xwiki-users] how to prevent xwiki 2.X colibri skin from displaying db-name of virtual wiki host in top-menu

2009-12-31 Thread Niels Mayer
For some reason, I chose db-names for my virtual hosts that were descriptive, but ugly and not meant to be seen in the UI. Unfortunately, in Xwiki Enterprise 2.X, the new colibri skin exposes this name e.g. "host_xe_foo_dot_com" on the left-hand-side top-menu. As a quick hack to suppress this new

Re: [xwiki-users] Security best practices for Xwiki deployment and management

2009-12-24 Thread Niels Mayer
Adding to the list of potential security issues, Caleb DeLisle brought up an interesting point in a different thread, regarding users granted programming rights (which is not enabled for Xwiki users unless specifically granted via "Rights" administration doc.): Programming permission opens up a lo

Re: [xwiki-users] Security best practices for Xwiki deployment and management

2009-12-19 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 5:49 AM, esdaniel wrote: > > I asked Vincent if there was a security how-to / checklist page in the > xwiki > user guide and as such this does not yet exist. > > As security is such an important issue for public-facing sites, coupled > with > the fact that in order to help

Re: [xwiki-users] Google wave and Xwiki integration ==> solve comment issues in Xwiki?

2009-12-05 Thread Niels Mayer
Seems like there's a lot of overlap between Wave and things i've heard talked about as Xwiki's post-2.0 plans... google seems to be putting some additional weight behind Wave, or eliminating competitors: AppJet announced the Google acquisition

[xwiki-users] Google wave and Xwiki integration ==> solve comment issues in Xwiki?

2009-12-03 Thread Niels Mayer
I just got my Google Waveinvite and have been trying to understand how I can use it with my Xwiki -based application (soon launching on http://trainspodder.com see example-screen: my

Re: [xwiki-users] Number of attachments on an XWiki page

2009-11-11 Thread Niels Mayer
Some WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg settings that might improve performance w/r/t attachments (note the uncommented portions): ... #-# Whether the document recycle bin feature is activated or not # xwiki.recyclebin=1 #-# Whether the attachment recycle bin feature is activated or not storage.attachment.recycle

Re: [xwiki-users] Applications: MultiPage Export, Recruitment, Todo Macro

2009-10-21 Thread Niels Mayer
Thank you for these apps! Ludovic Dubost > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/sandbox/applications/ Since the apps now appear to all be serialized wiki-documents saved with extension ".xml" in subversion, what about having a simple app-installer which avoids the entire XAR process and allows more

Re: [xwiki-users] Query Regarding Data Model

2009-10-02 Thread Niels Mayer
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Eric Domeshek wrote: > > I'm starting to explore use of XWiki for a project where we want to > provide a domain-specific semi-structured wiki which seems like it ought > to be a good fit to XWiki's intended usage. Yes, it is. Xwiki is the best thing to hit open so

Re: [xwiki-users] xwiki 2.0 issues

2009-09-30 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4417 I marked http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-376 as a duplicate of http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4417 XE-376 duplicates/closes http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-336 as well.

Re: [xwiki-users] why hsqdb rather than h2?

2009-09-26 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > > One nice feature I spotted: native support for clustering. IMHO, given the many things Xwiki plans to do, and limited time and resources, I don't think this would be worth a lot of effort unless it had some bigger payoff. Seems like any

Re: [xwiki-users] Setting an object date property from a String.

2009-09-21 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Jean Couteau wrote: > > /* Groovy Class : Date parser#* */ > import java.text.DateFormat; > import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; > import java.util.Date; > class DateParser { > Date parse(toParse) { >def formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/"); >retur

Re: [xwiki-users] Creating structured pages

2009-09-15 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > > Question: For 2.0 final, will these end up being 2.0-based, > > It's been 2.0-based since 2.0M3. Sorry for the false alarm. I guess I need to upgrade some code ... Thanks Vincent. Niels http://nielsmayer.com ___

Re: [xwiki-users] Creating structured pages

2009-09-15 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Oana Tabaranu wrote: > > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial FYI -- One thing that might "bite" the newbie Xwiki programmer that starts out with Xwiki 2.0. Most of the documents mentioned in the tutorial that help you create code are 1

Re: [xwiki-users] Users not displayed

2009-08-17 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > > Today I have been told > > that the xwiki database was imported from a previous xwiki instance and > > not created from the scratch. So we decided to make a xwiki > > installation from the scratch and this worked like a charm. Having a

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] totally groovy! (using groovy SSH script to securely launch unix processes out of Xwiki)

2009-08-12 Thread Niels Mayer
# ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 tomcat-start # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 apache-start # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 top # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 ps # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 df # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 free # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 reboot

Re: [xwiki-users] totally groovy! (using groovy SSH script to securely launch unix processes out of Xwiki)

2009-08-11 Thread Niels Mayer
Of course, one can forgo the 1.0 document and calling parseGroovyFromPage(), and just put the class directly inside one's 2.0 groovy script and call new SshHelper(). Of course, this still doesn't solve the problem of wanting to reuse groovy classes across multiple documents, while wanting to use Xw

Re: [xwiki-users] totally groovy! (using groovy SSH script to securely launch unix processes out of Xwiki)

2009-08-11 Thread Niels Mayer
I forgot to include the Groovy script itself that does all the heavy-lifting in my previous mail - see Groovy.SshHelperClass below. Also, there's a much better way of calling this groovy "sshHelper" class out of a single groovy invocation in a 2.0 document. Groovy directly outputs wikitext, the ren

[xwiki-users] totally groovy! (using groovy SSH script to securely launch unix processes out of Xwiki)

2009-08-11 Thread Niels Mayer
/tomcat-ssh-slave/.ssh/authorized_keys (and keeping id_dsa secret) # This would prevent use of tomcat-ssh-slave "account" from being used by anything # other than preauthorized accounts. # # Here's some example commands: # # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-sl...@127.0.0.1 cleanlog # ssh -x tomcat-s

Re: [xwiki-users] Users not displayed

2009-08-11 Thread Niels Mayer
Christian Ribeaud : > Thanks a lot, Niels. Really. I got it now. But this is really cumbersome! And when using the administration panel, > I always get empty panels: rights, users, groups,... (only the number of items is displayed). One more thought on this issue: if you have upgraded your Xwiki,

Re: [xwiki-users] Users not displayed

2009-08-10 Thread Niels Mayer
> > many thanks for your answer. However I am not sure I understood everything. > What I actually would like to know is what should I do to solve this > critical problem? How should I edit the > http://xwiki:8080/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/XWikiAllGroup?editor=object for > instance? > First, browse /xwi

Re: [xwiki-users] Users not displayed

2009-08-09 Thread Niels Mayer
; on a virtual host. I'm assuming that since you're seeing this new "users" behavior, you're using the recent 2.0M2 release? Here's my initial observations of the same issue you raised posted to the devs list: FYI, http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@xwiki.org/msg09995.html

users@xwiki.org

2009-07-27 Thread Niels Mayer
(On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote: > > I have a prototype of XWIki partially working with some changes on app > engine http://xwiki1.appspot.com/bin/view/Main/ > > I've made all the servlet / jvm part work as well as the cache subsystem. > The main missing piece is a real sto

users@xwiki.org

2009-07-22 Thread Niels Mayer
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html Java is supported via Java 6 JVM and standard libs: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/ My biggest question w/r/t Xwiki is AppEngine's database support: > The Datastore > > App Engine provides a powerful dist

[xwiki-users] yay for google chrome and Xwiki

2009-07-09 Thread Niels Mayer
Windows users can rejoice -- http://www.google.com/chrome -- Because they work nicely together. Much faster/smoother. Unfortunately, to get it on linux, you have to switch to google's linux. I didn't realize chrome was w

[xwiki-users] how to add a calculator to a xwiki-based site in one minute

2009-06-10 Thread Niels Mayer
Jonathan -- See http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/Calc and http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/Calc?viewer=code ( http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/download/Sandbox/Calc/Sandbox.Calc.xar ) The above took about 1 minute to do, basically cutting and pasting the code as-is from th

Re: [xwiki-users] Special Characters in Titel

2009-06-07 Thread Niels Mayer
> History<http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-376;jsessionid=D6C044B2762429BB47D3AB22E4F9BE71?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Achangehistory-tabpanel> > * Sort Order: [image: Ascending order - Click to sort in descending > order]<http://jira.xwiki.org/

Re: [xwiki-users] delete pages with unallowed characters in their names

2009-05-31 Thread Niels Mayer
The following may provide some hints w/r/t directly deleting malformed pages from the database: http://nielsmayer.com/whatididtopoorsql.txt There are unresolved bugs related to this class of issues: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-376 http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-336 IMHO, I think th

Re: [xwiki-users] [VOTE] Creating complex lists with the new WYSIWYG editor

2009-05-14 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> wrote: > > For the first outcome I think we all agree that the user has to press > Shift+Enter. For the second and third outcomes I see two options: > > A) Enter for 2 and CTRL/META+Enter for 3 > B) Enter for

[xwiki-users] increasing low size-limit on XWiki.JavaScriptExtension[] data in object-editor ?

2009-05-11 Thread Niels Mayer
In 1.8, if too much data is entered in a doc's ?editor=object fieldXWiki.JavaScriptExtension[] (say a big chunk of JSON on the order of 97783 bytes) you can no longer save without getting an underlying error. This appears related to the following: com.xpn.xwiki.objects.LargeStringProperty --> com.m

Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki+Simile Exhibit integration // request for help w/ portability issue

2009-05-09 Thread Niels Mayer
FYI, a third version of the same example -- http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents3 -- this time, the JSON data resides directly in the document "Presidents3" object XWiki.JavaScriptExtension[0] and the code to load it into the exhibit database is in object XWiki.JavaScriptExtensi

Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki+Simile Exhibit integration // request for help w/ portability issue

2009-05-09 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:04 AM, David Huynh wrote: > Looking at the HTML source, I see > id="party-colors"> >Republican >Democratic >Other > parties >Many > parties >No party >

Re: [xwiki-users] Xwiki+Simile Exhibit integration // request for help w/ portability issue

2009-05-09 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Niels Mayer wrote<http://n2.nabble.com/Xwiki%2BSimile-Exhibit-integrationrequest-for-help-w--portability-issue-td2823091.html> : > Here's my example of Xwiki/Exhibit integration: > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/President

Re: [xwiki-users] XWiki diagram linking

2009-05-07 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Well we have a mindmap automatic generic in the code zone and Niels > has done something with the Simile Timeline too for navigating by date. Simile Timeline example apps w/ Xwiki: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/TL2 http://n

[xwiki-users] Xwiki+Simile Exhibit integration // request for help w/ portability issue

2009-05-06 Thread Niels Mayer
Although I was previously able to do a hack integration with Simile's Exhibit and Xwiki, it was too heinous to actually live with. A cleaner solution, using Xwiki's "skin extensions" for stylesheets and javascript now works. The "clean" solution required hosting my own copy of Exhibit based on chec

Re: [xwiki-users] Proposal: box macro with show/hide parameter

2009-05-05 Thread Niels Mayer
> > Quick proposal - would it be possible to enhance the box macro so that it > includes two extra (optional) parameters: > "hideable"=[true/false] > "initial"=[show/hide] How about the "Foobar" collapsible titlebar, morphed from Curriki: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/Foobar?view

Re: [xwiki-users] Problem with HSQLDB Database please Help!!

2009-05-05 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Remi wrote: > see in error message several lines with "Cannot create > PoolableConnectionFactory (Out of Memory)" or "Caused by: > java.sql.SQLException: Out of Memory", but i need real help to understand > and fix my problem. > (0) Restart your container. And re

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] app: browse/listen to 60+ National Public Radio Podcasts in Pre2.4 Simile Timeline

2009-04-26 Thread Niels Mayer
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Dennis Coonich wrote: >Amazing - was just looking into embedding applets into xwiki for > streaming media from local or remote sources. You beat me to it. I > would still like to integrate homegrown java ee applets, jsf and other > java technologies. Can

[xwiki-users] app: browse/listen to 60+ National Public Radio Podcasts in Pre2.4 Simile Timeline

2009-04-21 Thread Niels Mayer
http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/NprTimeline xwiki (html+wikitext+velocity+javascript) code: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/NprTimeline?viewer=code see also http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/MP3Feed2TL?viewer=code http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Ma

Re: [xwiki-users] How to navigate user pages as tree structure from main page?

2009-04-14 Thread Niels Mayer
I mentioned the curriki tooltips issue because you noted performance issues in waiting for certain actions in curriki's navigation. Ludovic gave the example http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_curriki/RefineyourSearchforLearningResources?bc=;Coll_curriki.CurrikiHelp;Coll_curriki.HowtoSearchB

Re: [xwiki-users] How to navigate user pages as tree structure from main page?

2009-04-10 Thread Niels Mayer
sorry, i spaz'd and accidentally sent the previous message before I finished composing or spellchecking... here's what I intended to send. (oops) On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Manfred wrote: > Yes the hierarchical design used by Curriki would work for me, the layout > is fine, but the impleme

Re: [xwiki-users] How to navigate user pages as tree structure from main page?

2009-04-10 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Manfred wrote: > Yes the hierarchical design used by Curriki would work for me, the layout > is fine, but the implementation is a bit disconcerting, so if there is a way > to work round the negative UI issues... > > The aspects that I find are disconcerting and wo

[xwiki-users] Consider for GSOC idea: "import administration enhancement/feature request" ??

2009-04-02 Thread Niels Mayer
t IMHO would be very useful: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Niels Mayer wrote: > In addition to selecting a xar and allowing a user to check to allow the > xar's content to blindly overwrite the previous entry; add a third option > "merge". > > When "merge&q

[xwiki-users] requesting consistent application of XWIKI-2149 for feed URLs: ?xpage=rdf -> ?xpage=plain

2009-04-02 Thread Niels Mayer
lugin/feed/FeedPluginApi.java FYI, it turns out this issue is also the source of bugs that might occur in a few places in the 1.8 final XAR, including the search-document's search-feed URL, for example: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-400 The following issue has been reopened. *Autho

Re: [xwiki-users] Programming rights in virtual wiki

2009-03-27 Thread Niels Mayer
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:07 PM, hel-o wrote: > don't know if thats another use case but at the moment i cant copy pages in > the virtual wiki. It works in the main wiki and i tried in the virtual wiki > with the global user and the local user. When i copy a page sucess message > appears, but whe

Re: [xwiki-users] FYI -- a timeline display of all podcast feeds from KCRW

2009-03-27 Thread Niels Mayer
?raw=1 Niels http://nielsmayer.com 2009/3/25 Niels Mayer > FYI: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/KcrwTimeline (displays > all podcasts from http://kcrw.org ) > code: > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/KcrwTimeline?viewer=code > > http://nielsmayer.

[xwiki-users] FYI -- a timeline display of all podcast feeds from KCRW

2009-03-25 Thread Niels Mayer
FYI: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/KcrwTimeline (displays all podcasts from http://kcrw.org ) code: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/KcrwTimeline?viewer=code http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/Feeds2TL?viewer=code Niels http://nielsmayer.com ___

Re: [xwiki-users] panel viewable by unregistered guest?

2009-03-20 Thread Niels Mayer
If you make all spaces (including panels) not viewable by unregistered users, then the panels won't be viewable by unregistered users. As 'Admin' go to /xwiki/bin/view/Main/SpaceIndex?space=Panels ; use the "Rights" action to make world-viewable the specific panels your unregistered users will see

Re: [xwiki-users] Hibernate exception when trying to delete attachment

2009-03-19 Thread Niels Mayer
video, etc. Because the attachments tables can get rather unwieldy in a database when they're storing large files -- to the point where backup etc becomes an issue. For more info: Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:11:52 -0800 Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Bug : unable to delete attached files in v

Re: [xwiki-users] A Real tutorial for creating Skins and Template ...

2009-03-18 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Remi wrote: > Thanks for you help, i doesn't know this technique but i do same thing (i > think) overriding stylesheets by the Xwiki.XWikiSkins class... > > When i say "from scratch" i heard "in darkness with firebug without knowing > the tree of stylesheets and th

Re: [xwiki-users] A Real tutorial for creating Skins and Template ...

2009-03-17 Thread Niels Mayer
above yet, other than for a different example that uses the same technique/hack but locally rather than globally... but I plan to do this some more soon. . Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:04:07 -0700 Subject: generalizing Radeox RSS:FEED macro in Xwiki From: Niels Mayer To: XWiki Use

[xwiki-users] generalizing Radeox RSS:FEED macro in Xwiki

2009-03-16 Thread Niels Mayer
(1) Create a stylesheet http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/styledRSS?xpage=plain Which is a document http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/styledRSS?viewer=code with following wikicode: > $response.setContentType("text/css") > {pre} > .rssfeed {border:0px!important;padding:0px!impor

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] support for google sitemaps and webmaster tools? (and why do xwiki RDF's give "unsupported file format"?)

2009-03-16 Thread Niels Mayer
Partially answering my own question... there is some support for Sitemaps in XWiki http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/XmlSitemapGeneratorSnippet The above might not even be necessary since google builds sitemaps out of RSS fedds as well. However, they are not working with XWiki's RSS, o

[xwiki-users] import administration enhancement/feature request

2009-03-16 Thread Niels Mayer
In addition to selecting a xar and allowing a user to check to allow the xar's content to blindly overwrite the previous entry; add a third option "merge". When "merge" is selected, for that selected document, the diffs between the uploaded-xar and the current db are presented in a "mergediff-in-

Re: [xwiki-users] Deleted users not staying deleted

2009-03-13 Thread Niels Mayer
t's probably an instance of this (just sent to devs list). The search engine, or some user, is restoring your removed user/document by clicking 'restore' On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Niels Mayer wrote: > Lets say you delete a spam user, e.g. /xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/xan

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] support for google sitemaps and webmaster tools? (and why do xwiki RDF's give "unsupported file format"?)

2009-03-13 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > > -- 5 hours ago Errors -- xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebRss?xpage=rdf > > -- 5 hours ago Errors > > > > The reported problem coming from xwiki's xpage=rdf feeds: > > > > *Unsupported file format* > > Just an idea... maybe they expect the ".xm

[xwiki-users] support for google sitemaps and webmaster tools? (and why do xwiki RDF's give "unsupported file format"?)

2009-03-12 Thread Niels Mayer
Has anybody figured out a way to get xwiki to generate a Google sitemap as an alternative to RSS feeds? (see http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html ). Also, video sitemaps ( http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472&cbid=sw9kur0v6z6j&src=cb&lev=topic)

Re: [xwiki-users] groovy web service

2009-03-11 Thread Niels Mayer
I'm not sure if this is directly related, but it might be. I had some weird issues with unexpected wikifrobbing (basically acting as if the {pre} wasn't there) of my json data that happened to contain HTML strings: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/YTTL-Mock-JSON?xpage=plain that req

Re: [xwiki-users] X11 needed on the server?

2009-03-11 Thread Niels Mayer
mment-tabpanel#action_37483 > Niels Mayer, > http://nielsmayer.com<http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=nielsmayer>added > a comment - 18/Feb/09 > 00:09 You might want to check on some missing environment variables or missed setup options. I believe OpenO

Re: [xwiki-users] X11 needed on the server?

2009-03-11 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: > we are fighting with a spurious error occurring in our system: > ... > >> where basically it seems that an X11 connection is wished even though >> there's none (on a SuSE linux with a Sun Java). >> What is the normal way in Java (and on my

Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] SMTP authentications

2009-03-10 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Lilianne E. Blaze < lilia...@lilianne-blaze.net> wrote: > And before someone says it's open source and I should stop bitching and > submit a patch - I _did_ submit a patch months ago :/ > Is this the patch: http://www.lilianne-blaze.net/temp_downloads/xwiki-mailse

Re: [xwiki-users] RTF-Export (1.8RC2)

2009-03-09 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, hel-o wrote: > since sometime my rtf-Export doesn't work anymore. First i could make an > export but i couldn't open the document. Now (updated to 1.8RC2) i only get > the following error. "21:11:38,464 [ > http://xwiki.jbk-net.com/xwiki/bin/export/GettingStarted/W

Re: [xwiki-users] Bug : unable to delete attached files in virtualwikis

2009-03-09 Thread Niels Mayer
Christophe -- Thanks for testing this. Your confirmation suggests I will follow your lead. Unfortunately, I only noticed the xwiki.cfg options that control this after i deleted them directly from the database in SQL: Here are the xwiki.cfg settings I'm using to achieve this: #-# Whether the docum

Re: [xwiki-users] Stats module configuration

2009-03-08 Thread Niels Mayer
what about logging out and then back in. Or even shift-reloading a page you've previously visited. Sometimes there's caching issues (also sometimes there's caching in xwiki too... how do changes like this propagate through the cache, or is there a way of forcing the xwiki cache to clear?) Nie

Re: [xwiki-users] SMTP authentications

2009-03-07 Thread Niels Mayer
> > fromSergiu Dumitriu > reply-toXWiki Developers > toXWiki Developers > dateTue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:49 PM > subjectRe: [xwiki-devs] Issue with authenticated SMTP servers for "Admin > Email" setting in Xwiki > > Niels Mayer wrote: > > If I wa

Re: [xwiki-users] Bug : unable to delete attached files in virtual wikis

2009-03-07 Thread Niels Mayer
I had a similar problem, with attachments not being deletable, which also prevented the document itself from being deleted. Unfortunately, this also suggested an additional issue arising with attachments. If a user makes large attachments to their user-document, e.g. XWiki.MyName then even in a "cl

Re: [xwiki-users] Need HQL query for date comparison

2009-03-07 Thread Niels Mayer
I had problems with HQL statements containing parentheses used to help humans see the logic more easily, but not needed by the logic itself. When I removed the parentheses and changed the equation to take advantage of built-in operator precedence... then it worked. I'm not saying that is the prob

Re: [xwiki-users] Killer App for xwiki

2009-03-05 Thread Niels Mayer
For a static PPT file, the office importer seems to do "reports" quite nicely already: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/Spreadsheet Niels http://nielsmayer.com On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:42 AM, wrote: > > Just yet another idea, if somemody collect ones: > > I time from time thinkin

Re: [xwiki-users] Help with "balloon styled" tooltips

2009-02-28 Thread Niels Mayer
Take a look at: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/DevGuide/API/xwiki-core-1.8-rc-1-javadoc.zip/com/xpn/xwiki/api/XWiki.html java.lang.String *addTooltip

Re: [xwiki-users] Problem with a 1.8 RC1 install

2009-02-24 Thread Niels Mayer
Is this a virtual hosted setup? It's probably getting all it's users/skin etc from the main wiki-db, and therefore the empty vhost is not listed in the Dashboard, etc. On top of this, there's the additional surprise of the "global" users from the main Wiki shadowing the "local" users of the local

Re: [xwiki-users] organize vote with XWiki

2009-02-22 Thread Niels Mayer
The Polls app does support adding new topics/votes/etc easily, and is a nice merging of a poll into a wiki-document. The only annoying thing is that it requires edit privs in the "Polls" space where the code exists, or at least in the space holding the the polls. This is because the Polls space is

Re: [xwiki-users] Database information about xwiki

2009-02-11 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Hervé Agnoux < herve.agn...@diaam-informatique.com> wrote: > > See perhaps > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Database+Administration > and the out of date schema at > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DatabaseSchema > > I've fou

Re: [xwiki-users] Is there any kind of structured data input plugin

2009-02-11 Thread Niels Mayer
Niels http://nielsmayer.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Hernández Cuchí, Francisco Ricardo > > > Is there any way to use structured data input and view in XWiki? I've seen > some pages that have it, but I don't know an easy way to implement it. I has > to be something simple, like in excel

Re: [xwiki-users] Tutorial XWiki

2009-02-11 Thread Niels Mayer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Frans Thamura wrote: > hi all > > i am seeking free tutorial for newbies to start XWiki, anyone can give > me recommendation These might be helpful: http://www.ante.lv/xwiki/bin/download/Training.XWiki/WebHome/LearnXWiki1.ppt http://www.ante.lv/xwiki/bin/view/T

Re: [xwiki-users] XEM and WYSIWYG

2009-02-09 Thread Niels Mayer
the abstraction of the v-host name; rather, the database name is used directly in the wiki-file: "[[iouoiu>>main_xe:Sandbox.renameddoc]]" For commentary relevant to the 2.0 wysiwyg's link-wizard, please see section "(2)" from the message "1.8M2: suggest publ

Re: [xwiki-users] MIT Simile Widgets (spiffy JS Timeline/Timeplot/Timegrid) for Xwiki?

2009-02-06 Thread Niels Mayer
(1) check to see whether the affected tables and queries in the timeline example are actually *in* your database and that the schema hasn't changed (any xwiki experts feel free to chime in on whether this is or isn't the problem -- tho I'm pretty sure that doc.space was in 1.3...). ... and if it's

Re: [xwiki-users] MIT Simile Widgets (spiffy JS Timeline/Timeplot/Timegrid) for Xwiki?

2009-02-05 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:08 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team wrote: > Please, must I expect that the timeline snippet or the modifications > proposed by Niels work fine in a 1.3.8295 XWiki Enterprise. Sorry, I now > that I must update this server... Did you remember to do thi

Re: [xwiki-users] MIT Simile Widgets (spiffy JS Timeline/Timeplot/Timegrid) for Xwiki?

2009-02-02 Thread Niels Mayer
snippet showing last modifications within the wiki > on code.xwiki.org : > http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/TimelineSnippet > > In action: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Timeline > > JV. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Niels Mayer wrote: > > Has

Re: [xwiki-users] Admin pages...

2009-01-31 Thread Niels Mayer
One more solution still is to hide the regular "Index" from any regular users of the system, replacing the URL in the panel/navbar with a specific and narrow index to one or more spaces, e.g. hardcode the following in place of existing UI access links to "Index" "$xwiki.getURL("Main.SpaceIndex, "vi

[xwiki-users] MIT Simile Widgets (spiffy JS Timeline/Timeplot/Timegrid) for Xwiki?

2009-01-22 Thread Niels Mayer
Has anybody integrated any of MIT's open source "Project Simile" ( http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/ ) JS widgetry into Xwiki? For example their http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot/ or http://simile.mit.edu/timegrid/ ?? This has been discussed previously on these

Re: [xwiki-users] how to generate pages.

2009-01-09 Thread Niels Mayer
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Robert Munro wrote: >What would be the best way to generate pages using xwiki? One way of generating pages is using velocity, in which case you may find the following links of interest: Velocity User Guide.pdf

Re: [xwiki-users] Concurrent users

2008-11-10 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:20 AM, eggenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes I guess sessions would probably be the best way to distinguish between > different computers in this case. I don't know much java or the way xwiki is > structured - can anyone point me in the right direction? And now,

Re: [xwiki-users] Feedback needed: Blog terminology

2008-11-09 Thread Niels Mayer
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu > What is the best term: > 1. blog post *25,500,000* for *"blog post

Re: [xwiki-users] Query field in XWiki.WatchListClass object

2008-10-03 Thread Niels Mayer
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Arnaud bourree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > So, I take a look on objects attached to my page and I see that there is > third way to subscribe: QUERY. > > But I found nothing about what QUERY should look like! Is that what this is about -- http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki

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