Display Document Widget for CS and SBS
Created on: Mar 19, 2009 12:38 AM by mueller-ziebur - Last Modified: Jun 2, 2009 2:02 AM by mueller-ziebur
Display Document Widget
This widget displays the body of a document...
Use Case
In Clearspace a wiki-style document is a pretty good way of managing content. What I was missing is the possibility to display the content of the document somewhere.
Why do need Display Document Widget ?
Well, you need to have Space-Admin rights to drag a Formated-text or HTML-Widget on a page. You don't want to give that right to a lot of people. Futhermore the content in those widgets is not managed !
How to use Display Document Widget ?
Install it through the admin-console, drag it somewhere and enter the Document ID. (Just the Number NOT the "DOC-"-Prefix :)
Configuration
- docID: the Document ID. (Just the Number NOT the "DOC-"-Prefix :)
- diplaySubject: Use the document-title or the user-defined title
- teaser: Use the Document as Teaser
This Options displays a more Tag in the Widget, if a <!--more--> is inserted in the Document-HTML source.
Important: Be carefull where you insert the <!--more--> -Tag in the HTML-Source. You can mess up the whole Page ! e.g. DON'T do something like this: <div><!--more--></div>
- footer: Displays edit and view for the document in a footer
Cheers Stephan
Andy Goldstein
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in response to Ted Hopton:
This looks like a promising plugin! Would you be willing to share the source code?
mueller-ziebur
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in response to Andy Goldstein:
Yes I will do so in the next release....
If there are further feature requests, feel free to post them here....
mueller-ziebur
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in response to mueller-ziebur:
added a revision:
- fixed a little bug in the ftl.
Eric Butler
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This is still my favorite widget! We are upgrading to SBS, and in my UAT I can't get this plugin to work. Have you done any testing on SBS by chance?
mueller-ziebur
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in response to Eric Butler:
Hi Eric,
I havent done any testing on SBS yet. Will do so in the next couple of days, to provide a version for SBS...
Cheers Stephan
mueller-ziebur
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in response to mueller-ziebur:
I checked it with SBS. Works fine now.
I found a wrong css reference in the ftl.
SBS was complaining about that...
have phun....
Ted Hopton
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in response to mueller-ziebur:
Sorry to ask some rookie questions, but I've installed the widget and don't see how to use it in a regular document. It shows up among all the other widgets when I customize a space overview page, and works fine there. But you have to have space admin permissions to customize that page.
I thought I would be able to add this widget to an ordinary document, not just on the space overview pages. Am I incorrect? That's actually the feature that we want to add.
mueller-ziebur
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in response to Ted Hopton:
Hi Ted,
the idea here is, that the Space- / community admin can add the widgt in the customize-Overview of a community or in the personalize-view, etc.. once he designs the layout of the community (which has to be done anyway 
and the content of the document is managed / moderated outside...
SBS / CS does not provide a way "out of the box" to customize the document view (/community/somecommunity?view=documents) like the overview-page-(if thats what you meant).. In order to do that you have to do a lot more .....
Cheers Stephan
Andy Goldstein
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in response to mueller-ziebur:
Hi Stephan,
If you're still willing to, would you please post the source code when you get a chance?
Thanks,
Andy
mueller-ziebur
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in response to Andy Goldstein:
the source is included now. The plugin-jar is in the dist-folder..
Cheers Stephan
Eric Butler
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in response to mueller-ziebur:
The plugin works like a champ in SBS (v3.0.3). Thanks Stephan!
If I understand correctly, this would meet a long-requested need from our community. Thanks for sharing, and I look forward to trying it out!