Weblog

I'm using it as my website

Weblog capability?

Q: What do I mean? The whole wiki thing is great for sharing and organizing information. I am planning to use this for taking and organizing my notes. Things are great if I know the name of what I am doing up front. Often, however, I just want to enter some notes without thinking too hard about where it will eventually end up. I think what I need is some sort of "create a new page with the current date and time in the title" option. Since this is a wiki, perhaps I just need somthing that will create the link, and the page is automatically created when I navigate the link.

Has anyone come up with a clever solution to this? -- KeithSwenson

A: Do you mean something like the Weblog plugin? See my weblog for a running example. --JanneJalkanen

A lot of times I'll want to enter some information into the wiki, but not have time to organize/link it properly. When I want to do this, I'll edit the URL and delete everything after the "?page=" and then add the page name I want to create. JSPWiki then allows me to create the page. Sure, it's not nicely linked/organized yet, but it is searchable, which means it still has value. It also shows up in the RecentChanges, etc. pages. --MichaelGentry

Yes -- WebLog is great. Today I needed to take some quick notes in a meeting, and it was the perfect thing. You should mention WebLog in your features list -- I would have found it quicker. Another question: Can I configure it to just make a link to the new page, instead of including the text of that page? I realize this is not very bloggish but there are times I would like only the link. -- KeithSwenson

Actually, the weblog feature is really meant for 2.2 and above, the 2.0 plugin is quite simplistic, so I'm saving it for that.

What I do when I want to make a new page but not include it all, I'll just type in a link on the new weblog entry, save, and then click on the newly created link... Very Wikish :-). Sometimes I also go back to the blog entry and use the InsertPagePlugin to insert an abstract.

-- JanneJalkanen

WebLogPlugin parameters?

A: The WebLog plugin is not yet documented, and we do not recommend that you use it on a 2.0 installation due to its highly experimental nature. There will be documentation on the next 2.1 alpha release, due in a few days. Until then, you will have to Read The Fine Source, sorry.

-- JanneJalkanen

Where are my Blog Entries from 2004?

It seems (I did no validate this with the source though) the WebLog Plugin, by default, only shows entries for the current year. Which means, as today is jan 5 2004, my blogs are mostly empty!

To make old entries reappear, add the days parameter to your WebLog Plugin invocation:

[{INSERT WeblogPlugin days=180}]

--MarioDorion

How to let only authenticated users add an entry?

Is it possible?

How can I have a blog entry only editable by the user who created it (assuming only authenticated users can create entries) and any authenticated user be able to add a comment?

I guess, appropriate ACLs would have to be added automatically when the page is created. How could this be done?