On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Something I just met - as it's an "improvement" proposal I thought I could > propose it here, but I may just create a jira if you think it's interesting: > Would be great if there could be an option, in Attachments tab at pages > bottom, to display attachments as a grid of thumbnails, instead of just a > list. > The best would be to by default reach current Attachments view, when > clicking on Attachments tab (because it shows fastly), then have a little > flag, button, or whatever, to choose a "thumbnail" view. > This "thumbnail" view, could be the exact same kind of view as proposed by > Attachments Selector Macro [1]. > BTW it could be nice that this {{attachmentSelector/}} could be used as (or > could rely on another extension that) merely displays attachments, without > concept of saving the attachment name in a property in an XObject ... >
> Use-case sample: when you import a .doc document, all images are set as > attachments with automatic naming. Without thumbnail, it's quite hard then > to retrieve a specific attachment without opening all of them one by one. There is http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/AttachmentGalleryMacro . > > BR, > Jeremie > > [1] - > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Attachment+Selector+Macro > > > 2014-12-10 9:46 GMT+01:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Jason, >> >> >> On 10 Dec 2014 at 05:11:40, Jason Clemons ([email protected](mailto: >> [email protected])) wrote: >> >> > I have say, upgrading makes me very nervous too.. >> >> Have you ever tried using the Distribution Wizard? >> >> > so, I'd definitely vote for anything that changes or enhances that >> process. So far, I'm terrified to even try an upgrade (currently on 5.4) >> since my wiki is production and we've done a fair bit of customized >> solutions to unique problems (likely not in a "supported" way maybe) . >> >> Well, first nobody should ever upgrade a wiki in production directly! You >> should make backups and do the upgrade on a staging server and then only >> move the instance to production. >> >> > My fear is that some piece of code or settings will get overwritten >> which will break stuff and I won't know where to look to fix them. 😃 >> > >> > A wizard would be awesome to take the guess work out of it. >> >> err… The Distribution Wizard …. is a... wizard ;) >> >> You should give it a try! We do have some ideas in jira to make it even >> better but it’s already quite good in its current state. >> >> > As is, I've read some of the tutorials out there regarding upgrades >> several times but I'm not really able to determine the prescribed steps >> using those. >> >> What tutorial? Could you give me the links? >> >> > I think at the end of the day I'm going to end up exporting my solutions >> as XAR's and then try importing them into an upgraded Xwiki environment >> too, since it seems easier to me. >> >> The DW is generally a better solution to upgrades. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> > > On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET wrote: >> > > >> > > Le 9 déc. 2014 22:37, "Thomas Mortagne" a écrit >> > > : >> > >> >> > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Guillaume Lerouge >> > > wrote: >> > >>> Hi, >> > >>> >> > >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Mortagne < >> > > [email protected]> >> > >>> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Harald Ommang > >> >> > >>>> wrote: >> > >>>>> Hi! >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> In one way, I very much appreciate the relatively high frequency of >> > >>>> updates done by the XWIKI crew. You are doing a great job, making >> sure >> > > that >> > >>>> XWIKI is alive and kicking and always improving. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> The downside to this, is all the work needed to be done when >> > > upgrading. >> > >>>> So, I don't do that very often. The basic part of >> > > installation/migration >> > >>>> works very well, but when it comes to content, the upgrade >> procedure is >> > >>>> messy, as I see it. It is a hassle to have to pick and choose >> between >> > >>>> various parts when importing and exported XAR. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> I would very much suggest planning for a future where the parts >> that >> > > are >> > >>>> XWIKI software are clearly separated from the parts where customers >> > >>>> typically do modifications. Especially items like users and groups. >> It >> > >>>> should be possible to have a more separated export/import so that >> you >> > > GET >> > >>>> new versions of e.g. the admin pages, while still KEEPING your >> setup of >> > >>>> users, groups, etc., without having to click on a million of >> > > checkboxes in >> > >>>> the import. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> I don't really understand this comment, doing export/import is >> really >> > >>>> not the standard way of doing an upgrade. In typical upgrade you >> > >>>> backup everything if you want to be safe (or better you have >> automated >> > >>>> backups and you don't really need to do it when you upgrade), >> upgrade >> > >>>> the WAR part (if you use the Debian package then it's just about >> doing >> > >>>> apt-get upgrade or install with a specific version), restart, XWiki >> > >>>> upgrade the database shema automatically if needed and then you get >> > >>>> the Distribution Wizard which download and upgrade the wiki pages >> with >> > >>>> 3 ways merge. Most of the time you don't have anything to do. >> > >>> >> > >>> Sure, but to benefit from all those nice Distribution Wizard >> features, >> > >>> Harald would first need to... upgrade to the latest version ;-) >> > >> >> > >> Distribution Wizard has been introduced in 4.2 so not really the >> > >> latest version. And even before that export/import everything never >> > >> really been standard upgrade process either. >> > > >> > > Sure, but you usually did reverse way : import new xwiki ui xar (and >> > > remember to uncheck standard pages customized, or have them >> overwritten). >> > > And yes, it was sometimes a hassle, and compared to that distribution >> > > wizard is really really great :) >> > > >> > >> >> > >>> >> > >>> Guillaume >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
