Thanks to your advice, i'm going to spend 2-3 days on basics and see if i can make the simple workflow this week ;)
Good community ! i like it :) 2014-05-13 9:49 GMT+01:00 walid yaich <walid.ya...@gmail.com>: > Thank you so much, i'll talk to my boss and see what can we do, so nice to > get responses > > > 2014-05-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net>: > > Hi Walid, >> >> On 13 May 2014 at 10:23:42, walid yaich (walid.ya...@gmail.com(mailto: >> walid.ya...@gmail.com)) wrote: >> >> > I'm sorry, i'm so serious, we're more than 300 persons in the company >> using XIWKI, si i'm pretty serious, if it's possible to write a tool to >> migrate in 1 or 2 weeks, i'll probably do it. >> >> BTW did you check the comments at >> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/XWiki+Publication+Workflow+Application? >> >> Note that this extension is NOT developed by the XWiki dev team, it’s >> done by some individual and is in no way supported by the XWiki dev team. >> >> Also note that you don’t need this extension at all to implement a simple >> workflow in XWiki. It can be done easily with the notion of XClass/XObjects >> natively but you’d need to spend 1-2 days to understand these concepts. >> Actually these concepts are the main reason people use XWiki and they allow >> you to go so much further than any other wiki can go. >> >> If you’re serious and want to build something for the long run, I highly >> recommend that you spend 2-3 days to get familiar with XWiki before making >> an impacting change for your company. >> >> Some tutorials on XClass/XObjects: >> - http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DataModel >> - http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial >> >> Generally speaking you’ll find technical resources here: >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WebHome >> >> > Maybe you're right, i didn't wait much, but i spend much time trying to >> make it work and i didn't even understand the concept of this extension, so >> maybe it's not well documented, in 1 days i get MediaWIKI with the >> extension work properly, but i spend 3 days on XWIKI without any result, so >> maybe one another reason is documentation :) >> >> >> Yes that’s a good point. We always need to improve documentation. In this >> case however, it’s beyond our control since this is an extension >> contributed by some individual and is in no way managed by the XWiki dev >> team. >> >> What could help would be to have a Workflow extension developed/supported >> by the XWiki dev team. If enough people request this, this could be >> considered indeed. >> >> BTW most people switch from Mediawiki to XWiki because they’re quickly >> limited by Mediawiki on the “enterprise” aspects: fine-grained permissions, >> flat page hierarchy, LDAP integration, Office integration, etc. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> > 2014-05-13 9:18 GMT+01:00 vinc...@massol.net(mailto:vinc...@massol.net) >> : >> >> > > >> > > On 12 May 2014 at 23:59:35, walid yaich (walid.ya...@gmail.com >> (mailto:walid.ya...@gmail.com)(mailto:walid.ya...@gmail.com)) wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hi everybody, >> > > > >> > > > The reason is that we need a simple workflow in the wiki, the >> extension XWiki >> > > > Publication Workflow Application not working. >> > > >> > > hmm that doesn’t seem a good reason to switch IMO… :) >> > > >> > > You’re going to spend 10 times more time writing a migrator than you >> would to make the Workflow Application work. AFAICS you’ve just posted an >> email about the Workflow issue only a few minutes/hours ago and you’re not >> even waiting for the response before deciding to migrate, that doesn’t look >> serious to me… >> > > >> > > Thanks >> > > -Vincent >> > > >> > > > Well, actually i need to move from XWIKI to MediaWIKI, but the most >> > > > difficult problem is the migration >> > > > >> > > > Would you please give me any clue about the easiest way to migrate >> the >> > > > whole content from XWIKI to MediaWIKI >> > > > >> > > > Thanks in advance :) >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
