2014-12-10 15:26 GMT+01:00 Marius Dumitru Florea <
[email protected]>:

> 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
>

Yes, but it's still a "one by one" browser, not a grid of thumbnails, and
it's not built-in the Attachment tab by default ...
If it existed it could even be added to the File Manager Application [2],
currently proposing a Tree and a Live Table view, it could also offer a
Grid view with thumbnails why not ...

[2] -
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/File+Manager+Application


> .
>
> >
> > 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
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