Forum OpenACS Development: xowiki 0.28

i am glad to announce the availability of xowiki 0.28. The most important change is a tagging system like in del.icio.us for user tags. This will need most probably more performance tweaking, but it needs more data to work on this.

These are the major differences between XoWiki 0.27 (May 2006) and 0.28 in more detail:

• new functionality
  • tags: in addition to categories, XoWiki allows the user now to
    specify his own tags for quick navigation in the system. The
    tags are similar to the tags of the social book-marking system
    del.icio.us. The tag management is integrated with the
    weblog, a new includelet for tags is provided. This functionality
    adds more web 2.0 and social software functionality to XoWiki.

  • background loading of includelets via ajax (use ajax-portlet instead of portlet
    in adp-includes; experimental feature)

  • allow to specify time span in button for rss include (portlets/rss-button)

• better usability
  • adding admin link to ease navigation to categories

  • better placement of the wiki command bar, different placement under dotlrn or plain oacs

• more configuration options for folder object:
  • subst_blank_in_name: when set to 1, spaces in page names are
    replaced by underscores to get nice names

  • template_file: use the specified file as template file for viewing pages.
    One can use "set template_file oacs-view" to obtain a view with a category box
    on the left.

  • widget_specs: provide more detailed means to configure xinha
    (simplified toolbar, configured plugins, ...); the variable
    widget_spaces allows per directory and per page configuration
    of xinha. See documentation under "Advanced JavaScript
    Configuration" for details

• bug fixes:
  • display of categories: previous to this fix, a category with
    no items directly assigned was not displayed, even when its
    subcategory contained an item. Therefore it was not possible
    to navigate the the hidden entry via the category tree,
    although the category was assigned.

  • The upload button in the file selector (called via xinha) was
    not working correctly with IE. The focus management on IE for
    onblur() actions seems broken. Deactivated for IE.

  • on internal redirects via login page caused errors: when pages
    with internal redirects are called via the login (register)
    page, query variables were added twice. Added a test in front
    of the rp_form_put to avoid duplication.

  • caching bug: page rename did not flush the page and link cache

  • template::adp_include does not reset the adp_level to the
    previous one in case of errors. so, in case of nested
    adp_includes, the adp_level is incorrect leading to strange
    errors. fixed only for XoWiki.

The updated documentation is as usual in:
http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xowiki-doc/index.html

xowiki 0.28 is in cvs head.