Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Mahomed Hussein]

Hi Patrick

When we started using XWiki, we also used the spaces to separate documents for 
different departments (Accounts, Sales, HR, Tech etc.).

The upgrade from spaces to nested (I can't remember at which version) was a bit 
confusing at first. But basically we now have something similar to:

Home
-- Accounts
-- Sales
-- HR
-- Tech

Where the pages under Home are top level pages using the "Dashboard" template 
(I think this dashboard template may have changed after 8.1 but I haven't 
experimented yet).

I then created groups for Accounts-Read, Accounts-Write, Accounts-Admin (repeat 
for each department). Then go into the "top-level" page and administer the page 
and go to "Page and Children" rights. You can then set the permissions for the 
relevant group.

Once your users are registered, you simply add them to the relevant group and 
XWiki handles the security for you :)

You may need to experiment with the permissions because I found that I also had 
to give permissions at the Wiki level (Administer Wiki > Users & Groups > 
Rights) and then further lock it down on the "per page" permissions. Tip: Use 
different browsers and incognito/private mode so you can test permission 
application in one browser and run as Admin in the other to change permissions.

I also use the "Panels.Navigation" in the right panel to navigate the top level 
pages (Administer Wiki > Look & Feel > Page Elements > Display Right Panel = 
Yes, Panels displayed on the right = Panels.Navigation)

I hope that helps in some way.


Kind regards,




Mahomed Hussein
Custodian Data Centre
Email: maho...@custodiandc.com
http://www.CustodianDC.com

-Original Message-
From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Patrick M. Hausen
Sent: 02 December 2016 07:49
To: XWiki Users <users@xwiki.org>
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

Hi all,

> Am 01.12.2016 um 17:05 schrieb Guillaume Delhumeau 
> <guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com>:
> Exactly. You can see each individual page as a space actually :)

While I appreciate the streamlined implementation - just one concept for 
content separation - would it be possible to get the "space" look and feel back?

I.e. remove the topmost hierarchy level from the left navigation tree and put 
those items at the top?
And switch the left navigation depending on the top item selected?

Simple? Hardcore customization, i.e. paid support? Impossible?

Thanks
Patrick

Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all,

> Am 01.12.2016 um 17:05 schrieb Guillaume Delhumeau 
> :
> Exactly. You can see each individual page as a space actually :)

While I appreciate the streamlined implementation - just
one concept for content separation - would it be possible
to get the "space" look and feel back?

I.e. remove the topmost hierarchy level from the left
navigation tree and put those items at the top?
And switch the left navigation depending on the top
item selected?

Simple? Hardcore customization, i.e. paid support? Impossible?

Thanks
Patrick

Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Guillaume Delhumeau]

2016-12-01 16:38 GMT+01:00 Vincent Massol :

>
> > On 01 Dec 2016, at 16:35, Patrick M. Hausen  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guillaume,
> >
> >> Am 01.12.2016 um 15:42 schrieb Guillaume Delhumeau <
> guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com>:
> >>
> >> Hello Patrick.
> >>
> >> I think you should read
> >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/
> that
> >> will explain you everything.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >> Short story: we don't have space anymore but only pages that can have
> >> children.
> >>
> >> Hope you will appreciate.
> >
> > Your help - yes, of course. The demise of spaces - no, sorry.
> > Spaces were a key feature why I picked Xwiki. We need
> > different $SOMETHINGS for different working groups that
> > should not be visible at all to users who are not members of
> > that partciular group, yet easily navigatable for users with
> > the necessary privileges. Very much like Confluence spaces.
> >
> > I'll read the docs and decide if we keep exploring XWiki and
> > which feature (subwiki or nested pages) to use …
>
> You get what you want with XWiki :)
>
> You can have pages under other pages and you can set permissions on pages
> that affect all children too.
>

Exactly. You can see each individual page as a space actually :)


>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Patrick
>
>


-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project

Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi Guillaume,

> Am 01.12.2016 um 15:42 schrieb Guillaume Delhumeau 
> :
> 
> Hello Patrick.
> 
> I think you should read
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/ that
> will explain you everything.

Thanks.

> Short story: we don't have space anymore but only pages that can have
> children.
> 
> Hope you will appreciate.

Your help - yes, of course. The demise of spaces - no, sorry.
Spaces were a key feature why I picked Xwiki. We need
different $SOMETHINGS for different working groups that
should not be visible at all to users who are not members of
that partciular group, yet easily navigatable for users with
the necessary privileges. Very much like Confluence spaces.

I'll read the docs and decide if we keep exploring XWiki and
which feature (subwiki or nested pages) to use ...

Thanks again
Patrick

Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Vincent Massol]

> On 01 Dec 2016, at 16:35, Patrick M. Hausen  wrote:
> 
> Hi Guillaume,
> 
>> Am 01.12.2016 um 15:42 schrieb Guillaume Delhumeau 
>> :
>> 
>> Hello Patrick.
>> 
>> I think you should read
>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/ that
>> will explain you everything.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> Short story: we don't have space anymore but only pages that can have
>> children.
>> 
>> Hope you will appreciate.
> 
> Your help - yes, of course. The demise of spaces - no, sorry.
> Spaces were a key feature why I picked Xwiki. We need
> different $SOMETHINGS for different working groups that
> should not be visible at all to users who are not members of
> that partciular group, yet easily navigatable for users with
> the necessary privileges. Very much like Confluence spaces.
> 
> I'll read the docs and decide if we keep exploring XWiki and
> which feature (subwiki or nested pages) to use …

You get what you want with XWiki :)

You can have pages under other pages and you can set permissions on pages that 
affect all children too.

Thanks
-Vincent


> 
> Thanks again
> Patrick

Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Guillaume Delhumeau]

Hello Patrick.

I think you should read
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/ that
will explain you everything.

Short story: we don't have space anymore but only pages that can have
children.

Hope you will appreciate.

Guillaume

2016-11-30 13:37 GMT+01:00 Patrick M. Hausen :

> Hi, all,
>
> > Am 29.11.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Patrick M. Hausen :
> > [...]
> >
> > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Spaces#HSpacecreation
> >
> > Unfortunately my XWiki doesn't have that menu bar with the "Home | Main
> | WebHome | Add"
> > at all! What am I missing here?
> > Completely dumbfounded - the docs say "click Add -> Space" ...
>
> No one? The menu bar is clearly visible here:
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Spaces#HSpacecreation
>
> Yet, it is missing in my Wiki which looks like this:
> http://i.imgur.com/ctG5kM3.jpg
>
> Thanks
> Patrick




-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project

Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi, all,

> Am 29.11.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Patrick M. Hausen :
> [...]
> 
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Spaces#HSpacecreation
> 
> Unfortunately my XWiki doesn't have that menu bar with the "Home | Main | 
> WebHome | Add"
> at all! What am I missing here?
> Completely dumbfounded - the docs say "click Add -> Space" ...

No one? The menu bar is clearly visible here:
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Spaces#HSpacecreation

Yet, it is missing in my Wiki which looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/ctG5kM3.jpg

Thanks
Patrick

Re: [xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi,

> Am 29.11.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Patrick M. Hausen :
> Second there seems to be a "Document Tree Macro 8.4.1" extension
> already installed. How do I get this - and only this - into the left menu 
> column?

Sorry about that one! It's already there ... silly me.

Patrick

[xwiki-users] New installation - top menu bar missing?

[Patrick M . Hausen]

Hi, all

I'm new to XWiki. Just finished a fresh installation of 8.4.1
with Tomcat any MySQL, which went absolutely smooth - great!

I intend to migrate the wiki of a small not-for-profit organisation
from Confluence to XWiki, so my first two questions are

- how do I create spaces?
- how do I get a hierachical navigation tree of all pages in a space
  on the left?

I wouldn't be bothering you without doing some research first,
so I found this documentation about spaces:

http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Spaces#HSpacecreation

Unfortunately my XWiki doesn't have that menu bar with the "Home | Main | 
WebHome | Add"
at all! What am I missing here?
Completely dumbfounded - the docs say "click Add -> Space" ...

Second there seems to be a "Document Tree Macro 8.4.1" extension
already installed. How do I get this - and only this - into the left menu 
column?

Thanks a lot for any hints. RTFM perfectly welcome with a pointer to the correct
fine manual. Search engine hasn't been of much help, but possibly my google-fu
is leaving me ;-)

Kind regards,
Patrick