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9 9  
10 10  XWiki 2.0 introduces a new, lightweight, easily customizable skin. The main goal of the Colibri skin is to provide the proper support for fast and easy modifications of the look and feel of the wiki.
11 11  
12 -[[[[image:home-small.png||style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);"]]>>http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise20/home.png]]
12 +[[image:platform:Features.Skins@Colibri.png]]
13 13  
14 14  See [[Colibri skin documentation>>extensions:Extension.Colibri Skin]] for more details.
15 15  
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20 20  * A new way of displaying themes on the "Color Themes" space home(((
21 21  image:[email protected]
22 22  )))
23 -* The ability to create a new theme from the "Color Theme" space home(((
24 -image:[email protected]
25 -)))
26 -* A palette for each area you are editing with a popup listing everything you can customize at this level(((
27 -image:[email protected]
28 -)))
29 -* A dialog where you can make the desired changes(((
30 -image:[email protected]
31 -)))
23 +* The ability to create a new theme from the "Color Theme" space home
24 +* A palette for each area you are editing with a popup listing everything you can customize at this level
25 +* A dialog where you can make the desired changes
32 32  * The possibility to undo the latest modifications or reset all changes
33 33  
34 34  Read more about Color Themes on the dedicated [[application page>>extensions:Extension.Color Theme Application]].
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38 38  * New Add menu: Use the "Add" menu to create new spaces, pages, add attachments and comments.(((
39 39  [[image:[email protected]||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
40 40  )))
41 -* Improved Wiki and Space menus: You may now access the document index straight from the wiki & space menus.(((
42 -[[image:[email protected]||style="border: 1px solid black;"]] [[image:[email protected]||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
43 -)))
44 -* New Page menu: Integrates the Watch, Copy, Rename and Delete actions.(((
45 -[[image:[email protected]||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
46 -)))
35 +* Improved Wiki and Space menus: You may now access the document index straight from the wiki & space menus.
36 +* New Page menu: Integrates the Watch, Copy, Rename and Delete actions.
47 47  * The Edit, Export, More actions and Profile menus also benefited from a refresh.
48 48  
49 49  === New Profile UI ===
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52 52  
53 53  image:[email protected]
54 54  
55 -Improved inline-based editing for modifying profile details:
45 +* Improved inline-based editing for modifying profile details:
56 56  
57 -image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22@profileedit.png
47 +* Inclusion of the **WatchList manager** page into the Profile as a tab:
58 58  
59 -Inclusion of the **WatchList manager** page into the Profile as a tab:
49 +* Added a tab in the //Profile// for managing **user preferences**, which is currently rather small, but will be improved later to include more settings:
60 60  
61 -image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22@watchlist.png
51 +* User profiles have been converted to XWiki Syntax 2.0
62 62  
63 -Added a tab in the //Profile// for managing **user preferences**, which is currently rather small, but will be improved later to include more settings:
64 -
65 -image:[email protected]
66 -
67 -image:[email protected]
68 -
69 -User profiles have been converted to XWiki Syntax 2.0
70 -
71 71  === Visible content menu when scrolling down ===
72 72  
73 73  When scrolling down on a document, the content menu will follow, so the user will not have to scroll up on top of the page in order to access it.
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84 84  
85 85  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.
86 86  
87 -Enabling the special stylesheet:
88 88  
89 -[[image:[email protected]]]
90 -
91 -Bigger fonts and underlined links:
92 -
93 -[[image:[email protected]]]
94 -
95 95  === More consistent use of user avatars ===
96 96  
97 97  Avatars now come in three default sizes:
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100 100  * medium avatars, 50px wide, the preferred and most frequent display option for avatars
101 101  * large avatars,120px wide, to be used where a large version of the avatar must be displayed (for example in the user profile)
102 102  
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.
78 +* 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.
79 +
104 104  [[image:[email protected]]]
105 105  
106 -Four new velocity macros have been added for making it easier to display avatars:
82 +* Four new velocity macros have been added for making it easier to display avatars:
107 107  
108 -* ###smallUserAvatar('XWiki.username')##
109 -* ###mediumUserAvatar('XWiki.username')##
110 -* ###largeUserAvatar('XWiki.username')##
111 -* ###resizedUserAvatar('XWiki.username', 100)## which allows resizing an avatar to a custom size
84 +* User avatars are also displayed in annotations.
112 112  
113 -User avatars are also displayed in annotations.
114 -[[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@annotation-avatars.png]]
115 -
116 -=== UI for Deleted documents & attachments ===
117 -
118 -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//.
119 -
120 -[[image:[email protected]]]
121 -
122 -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.
123 -
124 -[[image:[email protected]]]
125 -
126 -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.
127 -
128 -[[image:[email protected]]]
129 -
130 130  === Further improvements to the edit UI ===
131 131  
132 132  After the improvements to the object and class editors introduced in 1.8 and 2.4, the wiki and WYSIWYG editors also see some enhancements in this release, bringing in some of the proposed changes from [[an older proposal>>http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/ImprovedEdit]], with some additional improvements. Specifically:
133 133  
134 -* A new label for the content area in the wiki editor:(((
135 -image:[email protected]
136 -)))
90 +* A new label for the content area in the wiki editor:
137 137  * A more descriptive label for the version summary field
138 138  * Better positioning of the "minor edit" option
139 -* Better positioning and display of the "autosave" option
140 -[[image:[email protected]]]
93 +* Better positioning and display of the "autosave" option\\
141 141  
142 142  == 2.Annotations ==
143 143  
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147 147  Ctrl + M (Meta + M)
148 148  image:[email protected]
149 149  )))
150 -* Show annotations on your page(((
151 -image:[email protected]
152 -)))
153 -* See an annotation for a text item by hovering over the yellow icon next to it(((
154 -image:[email protected]
155 -)))
156 -* Edit and delete annotations straight from the page(((
157 -image:[email protected]
158 -)))
159 -* Manage annotations from the "Annotations" tab(((
160 -image:[email protected]
161 -)))
103 +* Show annotations on your page
104 +* See an annotation for a text item by hovering over the yellow icon next to it
105 +* Edit and delete annotations straight from the page
106 +* Manage annotations from the "Annotations" tab
162 162  
163 163  You can find a more detailed description of the annotations feature on the [[documentation page>>platform:Features.Annotations]].
164 164  
165 -== 3.Invitation Manager Application ==
110 +== 3.Activity Stream ==
166 166  
112 +* Overhaul of the Recent Changes section of the Dashboard:(((
113 +* New UI
114 +* Support for more events compared to the previous Recent Changes: annotations, comments, document deletion
115 +* It's now called Recent Activity (was called Recent Changes)
167 167  
117 +[[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise26RC1@activityMacro||style="border: 1px solid black;"]]
118 +)))
119 +
120 +== 4.Invitation Manager Application ==
121 +
168 168  The Invitation Manager application allows users to send emails, inviting friends and colleagues to join a wiki. You will be able to configure your wiki to send emails through an open mail relay on the server or through an email account of your choosing.
169 169  
170 170  image:[email protected]
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171 171  
172 172  Read more about this application and learn how to configure it by visiting the [[application page>>extensions:Extension.Invitation Application]].
173 173  
174 -== 4.Anonymous commenting with Captcha ==
128 +== 5.Anonymous commenting with Captcha ==
175 175  
176 176  Now thanks to the [[captcha module>>extensions:Extension.Captcha Module]] you can require unregistered users to solve a captcha in order to post comments. To require guests to solve a captcha simply go to the "Rights" section of the [[Administration Application>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application]] for the wiki or just the space, and check the box saying "Require unregistered users to solve a captcha when posting a comment on a page". **Note** This box does not give guests permission to comment, it only adds a requirement for commenting if they already have permission.
177 177  [[This feature is documented here.>>platform:AdminGuide.Configuration]]
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179 179  
180 180  [[image:[email protected]||style="border: 1px solid black;" width="550px;"]]
181 181  
182 -== 5.New Template-based page creation ==
136 +== 6.Deleted documents and attachments ==
183 183  
138 +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//.
139 +
140 +[[image:[email protected]]]
141 +
142 +* 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.
143 +
144 +* 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.
145 +
146 +== 7.New Template-based page creation ==
147 +
184 184  Starting with XWiki Enterprise 2.4 users and applications can provide documents that can be used as template when creating new pages. The new document content (content, objects and other metadata) will be replicated from the template.
185 185  
186 186  * After you have [[created the template and the template provider>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application#HEasyTemplatesCreationandAdministration28StartingwithXWikiEnterprise2.4M229]] you can then start creating pages from this template:
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189 189  
190 190  * "Wanted Links" also offers the choice to create the new document from the available templates ( "My Template" template in the image below):
191 191  
192 -[[image:platform:[email protected]]]
193 -
194 194  Find more details about the template creation and administration on the [[documentation page>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application#HEasyTemplatesCreationandAdministration28StartingwithXWikiEnterprise2.4M229]].
195 195  
158 +== 8.Clustering ==
196 196  
197 -== 6.Clustering ==
160 +
198 198  XWiki provides an easy way to setup clustered instances of XWiki based on network events distribution.
199 199  
200 200  * events synchronization between XWiki instances
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203 203  
204 204  Follow the [[Clustering Admin Guide >>platform:AdminGuide.Clustering]] and [[Clustering Tutorial >>platform:AdminGuide.DistributedEventClusterSetup]] for a complete tutorial on how to setup a simple cluster between two instances of XWiki on the same server.
205 205  
206 -== 7.Easier development of configurable applications using [[XWiki.ConfigurableClass>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application#HMaking20your20application20easily20configurable20with203Ctt3EConfigurableClass3C2Ftt3E20Since2023M1]] ==
169 +== 9.Easier development of configurable applications using [[XWiki.ConfigurableClass>>extensions:Extension.Administration Application#HMaking20your20application20easily20configurable20with203Ctt3EConfigurableClass3C2Ftt3E20Since2023M1]] ==
207 207  
208 208  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.
209 209  The following is an image of the administration interface with additional applications to be configured (you can customize the icon used).
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212 212  
213 213  Note the current user does not have permission to edit one of the configurable applications.
214 214  
178 +== 10.Office Preview (support for viewing attached office documents in the wiki) ==
179 +
180 +
181 +* XWiki now supports viewing attached office documents without saving them on the client side. Click on the eye icon near the edit and delete buttons corresponding to the attachment you want to preview.
182 +
183 +image:[email protected]
184 +
185 +* We also included a new Macro for the WYSIWYG Editor. It allows to embed a office file into a page.
186 +

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