Hi Matt, On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:30 AM, Matt Lamoureux wrote:
> Hi all, > I'm just starting to use Xwiki, having been the admin for my company's > JSPwiki installation for a few years now. In that one, we had a very > useful part of the wiki which was an online database schema for our > databases. You see a list of the tables, which you can click on and see > the list of fields in that table, which you can click on and see the > information regarding that field. Our method was to take a DDL and run it > through a script which parsed it out into files that JSPwiki could read. > This way, we could take updated DDL's, run those through the script, and > keep updating the table list and table info pages, while leaving the field > named pages untouched. > Assuming I have described that correctly, does anyone have any solutions > that would be similar to this in Xwiki? Something that doesn't involve > manually updating the table list and table info pages? That would be great. The info we have at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DatabaseSchema is a bit too static indeed. > I was thinking we > could modify the script to spit out something that we could the import into > Xwiki, but I'm not sure if that is the best approach. I was hoping there > was a plugin that let you connect to a database and run real-time queries > and then us a macro to wiki-fy the results, but I didn't find anything like > that. Here's an example: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Execute+SQL Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
