FAQ (FAQ.WebHome) - XWiki.org. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are an easy way to find answers to most of your questions about XWiki. If you have a question you should verify if it's already in the FAQ list. If not then you should post a message on the XWiki Mailing List/Forum. The strategy is then for people who know the answer to create a new FAQ entry here about the question and reply in the mail with the link to the new FAQ Entry. In this manner we will quickly enrich this FAQ database. We have migrated to this new FAQ application and we're moving FAQ entries one by one from the old FAQ Application. If you can't find the FAQ you're looking for below, try the old one. authentication database email i18n icon image link notification PDF redirect REST rights scripting skin space spam Windows (*) Some documents require special rights to be viewed. Temporary provide a link for robots to index all FAQs.In the future, this link will be provided via a sitemap.AllFAQList.
Second Generation Wiki (Main.SecondGenerationWiki. First generation wikis are used to collaborate on content. Second generation wikis (a.k.a Application Wikis) can be used to create collaborative web applications. XWiki can be used either as a first generation wiki or a second generation one. Today most of user's needs are not satisfied because it takes too long and it's too costly to develop small applications.
Actually lots of adhoc applications are developed today using tools like Microsoft Excel. However when it comes to developing a collaborative web application Excel is not the right tool. On the other hand a second generation wiki like XWiki is a perfect infrastructure for this. Chris Anderson introduced the concept of Long Tail. What it means is that there are thousands and thousands of applications required by users that are not built today because of prohibitive complexity and costs (the yellow area is larger than the red area on the diagram).
A blogging applicationAn RSS feed aggregatorMashups. What's special about XWiki Enterprise? (GettingStarted.WhatsSpecialAboutXWikiEnterprise) - XWiki. XWiki Enterprise is a second-generation wiki. What we mean by this is that XWiki Enterprise is a wiki, but it also is an application development platform in its own right. An application is a set of pages that adds new functionality to the wiki - such as a blog or a task manager. XWiki Enterprise offers both the features expected from a professional wiki (such as powerful access rights and user management) and the possibility to create new applications on top of the platform. This means that you can extend the wiki's feature set with new ones pretty easily. XWiki Enterprise comes with a number of applications built-in, such as the Blog. A list of applications and macros for XWiki Enterprise is available here: Next: XWiki Enterprise: basic concepts. Mailing Lists & Forums (Community.MailingLists) - XWiki.
The mailing lists are the main communication channels for the XWiki community. There are 3 of them that you can post to (click on the links to subscribe and manage your account): User mailing list (users AT xwiki.org): For questions about using XWiki, using the XWiki API, suggestions for improvements, ideas, etc.Developer mailing list (devs AT xwiki.org): For XWiki development itself (to be used by Committers and Contributors to the XWiki development).Notification mailing list (notifications AT xwiki.org): All code commits, JIRA issues and Continuous Build failures are sent to this list. XWiki developers must be subscribed to this list to follow what's going on. Before posting on the lists, please make sure to follow these posting tips. Before sending mails to any of the lists mentioned above you'll need to be subscribed to the list. Be very careful to send the mail with the email address you've used to subscribe or your mail won't make it to the list and will be rejected.
What is a wiki and what can it be used for? (GettingStarted.WhatIsAWiki) - XWiki. A wiki is a website that you can edit online easily. Whenever you want to modify a page, click on the "edit" button, make your changes and save the page. The modified page now replaces the previous version. This makes it easy to update the website and have people contribute content.
Each version of the page is stored in the page history and can be reverted to if needed. On top of this basic feature set, most wikis include additional features such as access rights management and notifications. The core advantage of a wiki compared with traditional Content Management Systems and ECM lies in its flexibility and the ease with which new pages can be added and linked to. Thanks to their flexibility and ease of use, wikis can be used to address a wide range of situations: Basically, a wiki can be used whenever you want to use a flexible platform to centralize information and share it with other people. Next: What's special about XWiki Enterprise? Documentation (Main.Documentation) - XWiki.org. The XWiki.org web site is organized by projects and extensions, each having their own site. Every site holds the documentation for its projects and is linked from the website menu.
Projects are documented on the following wikis: Documentation for XWiki Enterprise (Click here for the "Get Started" guide) Extensions have their own dedicated wiki: Documentation for extensions See the Contrib wiki. The XWiki Platform provides general information for admins that need to customize their wiki (authentication, DB, performance tuning, etc.) and for programmers interested in in-wiki application development, or in the integration of other software with XWiki. Information regarding the Open Source development of the XWiki Platform itself can be found on the development community wiki. If you need more help with your wiki or you'd like to get in touch with the community please visit the support page for more information. Getting Started with XWiki Enterprise (GettingStarted.WebHome) - XWiki. Welcome to the XWiki "Get Started" page. This guide provides basic information on how to set up and use XWiki Enterprise. (Click here to learn more about wikis.)
XWiki's use cases are diverse: collaborative intranet, knowledge base, CMS, competitive intelligence, public debate, collaborative creation of school courses, web site creation, etc. Read more on what wikis can be used for, what makes XWiki Enterprise special and a second generation wiki. You can visit the references page to see a list of varied projects based on XWiki.
You can add your own project to the same page by filling in a short form. As you log in to your wiki the first thing you see is the wiki homepage. XWiki Enterprise is divided into Spaces and Pages. From the upper right corner you may edit your profile information, change your wiki preferences, manage your watchlist. Whenever you want to modify a page, click on the "Edit" button, make your changes and save the page. Lateral menus are handled using Panels. Optimizing XWiki — Encodo Systems AG. Once you’ve got an XWiki up and running (whether you imported a Mediawiki or not), you’ll find you want to tweak the standard rollout a bit. Speeding up XWiki After working a while with XWiki, you may notice it getting slower. Our XWiki was kind of slow from the get-go and we pretty quickly figured out why: the slowdown was caused almost entirely by the pretty, DHTML list of all pages in the panel on the right side.
It apparently takes quite some time to build this list (and ours included hundreds of pages from the import); it will have to go. We edited the side-panel to replace the culprit Panels.SpaceDocs with Panels.Spaces. Changing the default editor Since the WYSIWYG editor trashed some of our converted pages (we never investigated why exactly) we switched the default editor to the XWiki editor. This can be done for all users by setting the default editor on the Administration/Preferences/Editing page.
Changes to the default skin Our fixes for these things are shown below. Fixing Tables. Improving XWiki's Search — Encodo Systems AG. The XWiki.org site integrates—and has for a while—a search that’s different from the standard one. It offers users the ability of restricting a search to a specific space instead of searching all spaces at once. Here at Encodo, we’ve been keeping our weekly reports in the wiki for years and these reports have continuously muddied our search results. The new search is a great improvement over the original. Everything you see in XWiki is editable in one way or another and that includes the search page/panel.
We’re going to replace some of these standard pages with our own code. The Search Form First we’ll create a page for the new search (Textbox etc.). The Results Page The code above gets you a new search form, but it won’t work until we update the results page as well. If you open in your web browser, you should now be able to use the new search. Log in as administrator (if you aren’t already) and go to. Platform Features (Features.WebHome. User's Guide (UserGuide.WebHome) - XWiki. Start by reading the Getting Started Guide. At the same time as you follow the guides below we recommend that you try out what you learn on the Playground. This is a XWiki instance that we've set up for you so that you can easily discover the joys of using a wiki. After you've learned what a wiki is and how it works, you might want to create your own XWiki: You can download XWiki and install it on your machine.If you're a non-profit organization you can request an online wiki to be created for you on MyXWiki.If you're a commercial company you can buy some hosting from XWiki SAS.
In order to learn how to use XWiki, browse through the different features. Animations XWiki's main features in 10 slides Videos Here are some videos to get you started quickly: New videos Older videos.