Hi, On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:04, Wouter de Vos <hukab...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Users, > > After some mails with Vincent and Scott the idea was born to make a > strip-down-xwiki guide. > The reason for this is the fact that for a lot of novice users, xwiki seems > at the first glance to complex to handle. > By making a strip-down Guide we hope to make Xwiki more accessible for a > broader audience, and thus generate more users worldwide. > > I think this relates to an older XWiki Flavors idea http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-356 where XWiki should adapt and serve just a specific need*: - Public Website; - CMS; - Simple Wiki; - Structured Wiki; - Advanced Enterprise Wiki; - Dev Platform; - Administrable System. * categories provided by Sergiu Dumitriu What would be interesting regarding this topic is that each one responding to this mail should select a category where he fits and talk about the configuration, features he needs in order for XWiki to be the perfect tool for that case. > In order to make this strip-down Guide as complete as possible, I would > like > to ask all of you to post your thoughts and ideas on this. > For starters, here are mine, if they are allready easily solved, let me > know: > > -Make the search function easier to adapt. > For instance, I have multiple spaces, and i want that the search function > only searches in certain, predifened spaces and shows the results within > the > space the search was started from. > Could be resolved by having an "advanced search" tool based on filters. > > -An easy way to create a template so that users cannot copy paste in > whatever form and shape they want, but it shows a line where they can type > in the header, and below the content. All in the same style. > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Forms ? > > -An easy way to show-hide the comments box on the bottom of the page. At > the > moment I use a solution where I include a document with the script to do > this in, in every page. This should be dealt with globally, and possible > for > people without a lot of programming knowledge. > > Hide the entire comment tab or just the box? http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XAADMINISTRATION-239 > -The sandgrains work, but not from one space to another, at the moment I > use > the include Makro to maintain my saindgrain navigation intact, but it would > be far easier if documents from other spaces where I link to, adapt the > parent from the space where I started from. > Not sure what you are talking about: backlinks mechanism? breadcrumbs? page parent? > > -The Logo has a predefined link to the main wiki, which causes endusers in > a > space, when they click on this, to get to the main wiki page, and it > confuses them. I would like an easy way (not by editing the global.vm > template!) to personalize this. > Having the logo point to the homepage is a well known, globally used pattern http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=home . I wouldn't want to change that. > > -A wide spread opinion says, that you can just give users rights to certain > documents. But if an enduser can see a document, but not open it, the > endusers feels as if there are secrets kept from him. I want an easier way > to hide these documents completey, but show them to other users who are > allowed to see them in the same space. > Yes, this could be improved. > > -Expand and collaps user generated panels > If I create panels, their initial state is allways open, I can close them, > but when I go to anothere page, it shows the panels open again. Is it > possible to make check box within each panel in the panel wizard that > allows > me to change this? > This depends on the situation. Maybe it should remember the state if expanding is allowed, but actually I think panels should be better integrated in the skin (not with such an independent feel) and be more related to the content (having this way no need to collapse them). > > Many of these points here may seem irrelevant to many of the longtime > developers, but a lot of questions within this userlist have to do with the > usability. > I think that the problems you mentioned are just specific use cases and do not actually creates a minimal list of things that can be configurable and selected within XWiki. I would rather be interested in the things you use and could be part of the configuration. Thanks, Caty > For your understanding, I come from a total different corner then most of > you. I come from CM, not from programming. > But I think if we can work together on this, Xwiki will gain more users in > the end. > If anyone sees this different, let me know, lets communicate so I can start > working on the Strip down Guide. > And to all you programming masterminds out there, keep up the great work, > it > made Xwiki to that what is today, thank you so much for all the efforts. > > With Kind regards, > > Wouter > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
