Hi Rick, On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Rick Hadsall <nos...@elwynor.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm new to XWiki but know Confluence pretty well. I'd like to be able to > do > something similar to what Confluence does with their blog macro - be able > to > show 1..n recent blog posts on a page, either just showing the titles > (which > we can do with Velocity as per the default Dashboard), or showing a > "teaser" > that shows the title, date posted, poster, and a small intro snippet of the > post... > > Format would be like: > > TITLE > snippet... > ... > ... > Posted by user at datetime (possibly comment stats etc) > > Is there a way to do this in XWiki? > Yes, definitely. The blog actually used to do this but we changed it some time ago because when content got truncated sometimes markup was no longer closed properly, which led to wome weird display on the blog homepage (half of the text getting underlined, stuff like that). With the new rendering engine, it could be possible to write a "smart" snippet algorithm that would cut the markup in the right place. In the default version, you'll notice that if you manually fill the "summary" field of a blog post it gets displayed on the blog homepage instead of the actual article content, which I believe is close to the behavior you're looking for. If that's what you want to do, follow the indications on http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/BlogApplication to create a blog out of any page. By the way, I'd be interested in hearing your feedback about XWiki as compared to Confluence. Specifically, if you were to name one thing you like best in XWiki vs Confluence and one thing you like best in Confluence compared to XWiki, what would those be? Hope this helps, Guillaume > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki SAS Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
