Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > > 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. > OK. I'll give this a try. In theory the engine could be smart enough to know if it is going to truncate in the middle of markup and adjust accordingly, but having people provide a summary is a decent alternative.
But what I'm trying to do is create the blogs, but then be able to list the blogs on another regular wiki/content page - either in a list or a summary format. I don't want to force the user to go to the "blog" page to get the teasers for that content - I'd like to be able to tease the content on another page or two (where relevant, by category, or blog, etc) and let them click to read the full thing. > 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? > Well, it's probably too soon to tell as I'm very new with XWiki and very comfortable with Confluence. My sense is that XWiki has a long way to go - Confluence's markup language is excellent, and you can do pretty much anything you want with the macros they provide and the parameters for them. For example with the blog issue you simply use the blog macro on any page and pass it the parameters for which blogs you want (category, space, date ranges, what kind of listing, etc) and voila. There's no need to know Velocity to do anything so you don't have all this code that regular editors and site maintainers won't ever have a prayer of knowing all over the place. XWiki's preview doesn't work correctly - often you will preview and want to go back to editor and it's broken. For example, edit a blog and then preview, and when you go back to edit it will have a different look (no 'summary' and 'content' pane, just one pane, and an error in it). Very annoying. The number of plug-ins and add-ons to confluence is massive - it allows a richness of content that is unmatched by pretty much any other product on the market. It's something that, if I were XWiki, I would target to make plugins compatible with Confluence's. Confluence's permissions seem to be easier to use and apply to discrete pages, spaces, and functions within than pretty much any other product's. Confluence's macros around inclusion of Confluence content really set it apart from XWiki. Pretty much anything in Confluence can be included on a page through a macro. That's something that really helps. I know you can code it in XWiki but that really is not something that makes sense for a site managed by end users. See: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax versus http://sandbox.onconfluence.com/renderer/notationhelp.action?section=all The panels on XWiki are awesome. That's really an easy way to create that sort of thing - Confluence can't do it - you have to do sections and such and it's not perfect. You can do it, but it's not as easy as XWiki's. Again- take with a bit of a grain of salt because I'm much, much more familiar with Confluence. I'm using XWiki for a client who doesn't want to pay the license fee, which is a major advantage for XWiki. But right now, it's not quite there as far as ease of use or richness/completeness of features. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
