Changes for page Top 10 Features introduced in XWiki Enterprise 2.x Cycle
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... ... @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ 46 46 ))) 47 47 * The Edit, Export, More actions and Profile menus also benefited from a refresh. 48 48 49 - 50 50 === New Profile UI === 51 51 52 52 Complete **overhaul of the Profile UI**: better display of the user information, recent changes by the user are shown, different tabs for user details, user settings, and watchlist information: ... ... @@ -77,16 +77,20 @@ 77 77 78 78 === New Search Interface === 79 79 80 - *The default search page UI has been improved to be easier to understand and use.[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise20M1@newsearchui.png||style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 600px;"]]79 +The default search page UI has been improved to be easier to understand and use. 81 81 81 +[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise20M1@newsearchui.png||style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 600px;"]] 82 + 82 82 === Preliminary optional accessibility stylesheet === 83 83 84 84 Moving further on the quest for better accessibility in the XWiki platform, we introduced a preliminary stylesheet which makes the skin slightly more accessible to people with visual disabilities: bigger fonts by default, and underlined links to make them more easily distinguished by colorblind people. This stylesheet can either be activated globally in a wiki, or individually from each user's preferences. 85 85 86 -* Enabling the special stylesheet: 87 +Enabling the special stylesheet: 88 + 87 87 [[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@a11y-enable.png]] 88 88 89 -* Bigger fonts and underlined links: 91 +Bigger fonts and underlined links: 92 + 90 90 [[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@a11y.png]] 91 91 92 92 === More consistent use of user avatars === ... ... @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ 97 97 * medium avatars, 50px wide, the preferred and most frequent display option for avatars 98 98 * large avatars,120px wide, to be used where a large version of the avatar must be displayed (for example in the user profile) 99 99 100 - *Accordingly, the wiki dashboard has been changed to use the medium avatars, and as a new feature user avatars are displayed in the comments area.103 +Accordingly, the wiki dashboard has been changed to use the medium avatars, and as a new feature user avatars are displayed in the comments area. 101 101 [[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@comment-avatars.png]] 102 102 103 103 Four new velocity macros have been added for making it easier to display avatars: ... ... @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ 107 107 * ###largeUserAvatar('XWiki.username')## 108 108 * ###resizedUserAvatar('XWiki.username', 100)## which allows resizing an avatar to a custom size 109 109 110 - *User avatars are also displayed in annotations.113 +User avatars are also displayed in annotations. 111 111 [[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@annotation-avatars.png]] 112 112 113 113 === UI for Deleted documents & attachments === ... ... @@ -114,15 +114,15 @@ 114 114 115 115 While deleted documents and attachments have been stored in a trash instead of being completely deleted since XWiki 1.2, there was no general interface for viewing the contents of the trash. This has been remedied by the introduction of two new tabs in the wiki's Document Index, //Deleted Documents// and //Deleted Attachments//. 116 116 117 - *[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22M1@trash1.png]]120 +[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22M1@trash1.png]] 118 118 119 119 Both use the livetable, thus allowing filtering and ordering for easier browsing. A document from the trash can be viewed, permanently deleted, or restored if the location is still available. 120 120 121 - *[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22M1@trash2.png]]124 +[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22M1@trash2.png]] 122 122 123 123 The attachment trash contains only attachments deleted from a document, and not attachments that were deleted together with their owner document; in the latter case, the attachments are kept together with the document in the document trash. For attachments, there is no restore option yet, it will be implemented in a future release. 124 124 125 - *[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22M1@trash3.png]]128 +[[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22M1@trash3.png]] 126 126 127 127 === Further improvements to the edit UI === 128 128 ... ... @@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ 136 136 * Better positioning and display of the "autosave" option 137 137 [[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@edit-footer.png]] 138 138 139 - 140 140 == 2.Annotations == 141 141 142 142 The scope of this feature is to allow users to annotate text in a XWiki document. With the new feature you can: ... ... @@ -193,8 +193,50 @@ 193 193 194 194 Find more details about the template creation and administration on the [[documentation page>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application#HEasyTemplatesCreationandAdministration28StartingwithXWikiEnterprise2.4M229]]. 195 195 196 -== Easier development of configurable applications using [[XWiki.ConfigurableClass>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application#HMaking20your20application20easily20configurable20with203Ctt3EConfigurableClass3C2Ftt3E20Since2023M1]] == 197 197 199 +== 7.Clustering == 200 +XWiki provides an easy way to setup clustered instances of XWiki based on network events distribution. 201 + 202 += Features = 203 + 204 +* events synchronization between XWiki instances 205 +* multiple clustering channels 206 +* possibility to start stop clustering channel at runtime 207 + 208 += Setup = 209 + 210 +== Enable event distribution == 211 + 212 +To enable event distribution in an XWiki instance go to ##xwiki.properties## file and set the property ##observation.remote.enabled## to ##true##. 213 + 214 +== Setup communication channels == 215 + 216 +Then you need to create a JGroups configuration file for each different cluster group you want to setup. 217 + 218 +For this go to the ##/WEB-INF/observation/remote/jgroups## folder and add one xml file by clustering group. Generally there is only one for a simple cluster. 219 + 220 +You can look at http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/JGroups for a good documentation on how to setup JGroups configuration files. 221 + 222 +If you have IPv6 on your server, you are also advised to read http://community.jboss.org/wiki/IPv6. Defining -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true when launching the JVM is probably your best bet in most cases. If your really want to use IPv6 for your channels, you should probably upgrade JGroup to version 2.10.0.GA and use a JVM 6 at least. 223 + 224 +== Start communication channels == 225 + 226 +The name of the xml file matches the identifier of the channel. 227 + 228 +To indicate which channels to start when XWiki starts list the in the property ##observation.remote.channels## of the file ##xwiki.properties##. 229 + 230 +== Choose network adaptor implementation to use == 231 + 232 +By default only jgroups implementation is provided, but it's possible to add more. See the [[Remote Observation Module>>extensions:Extension.Observation Module Remote#HAddcustomnetworkadaptor]] for more details. 233 + 234 += More = 235 + 236 +See the [[Remote Observation Module>>extensions:Extension.Observation Module Remote]] for more details of the event distribution features and extension capabilities. 237 + 238 +Follow [[Test clustering tutorial>>AdminGuide.DistributedEventClusterSetup]] for a complete tutorial on how to setup a simple cluster between two instances of XWiki on the same server. 239 + 240 +== 8.Easier development of configurable applications using [[XWiki.ConfigurableClass>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application#HMaking20your20application20easily20configurable20with203Ctt3EConfigurableClass3C2Ftt3E20Since2023M1]] == 241 + 198 198 If you are developing an application and you need to provide your users with a way to configure it from the [[Administration Application>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application]] you are in luck. All you need to do is create a custom class holding all of the configuration for your application, then add an object of your custom configuration class and an object of ##XWiki.Configurable## class. You will be able to configure your application from the administration interface. 199 199 The following is an image of the administration interface with additional applications to be configured (you can customize the icon used). 200 200 ... ... @@ -202,4 +202,3 @@ 202 202 203 203 Note the current user does not have permission to edit one of the configurable applications. 204 204 205 -