Hi, On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:31 PM, twk3 wrote:
> > Using an xwiki space for help documentation for a product. The issue > being that the entire help documentation for an older version of the > product still needs to be available for people using that product. > > My current plan is to have one main space for all the documentation, > then add a new space for each version, and do includes for the > proper documents using their revision numbers. > > Space versioning would make this easier, or basicallty a space > variable that has a record of the revisions of all child documents > at the time the space version was... versioned. Space versioning doesn't exist natively yet. It's one feature I've added to the use cases for our new model: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/XWikiModel20 > My questions are: > > 1. Is there a better way for me to do this? Have one space per version without doing includes on revision numbers. Basically copy all documents in a space when a version is released. > 2. Would space versioning, or something of the like be easy enough > to implement that I could just make my own plugin that handled it. > (An intermediate java dev, but a xwiki novice) I guess you could implement some hadhoc version by storing all versions of each document in a given space and implementing some save/ restore based on this. It looks overkill for your need though. > > 3. Should I really be viewing multiple revisions at all? The > rollback function works fine, but I've noticed issues in viewing > revisions, and I'm wondering whether it was intended only for > revision comparison. Viewing revisions should work fine. Please open jira issues if you find problems. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
