Live Data Macro
A new Live Data rendering macro is available to display dynamic lists of data. You can see it as a replacement of the existing Live Table macro, but it's not limited to that. We plan to add support for:
- multiple layouts (table, cards, etc.)
- advanced filtering
- multi-sort
- selection and batch actions
- in-place data editing and creation (including support for editing the data structure)
- real-time synchronization
Increased maximum size for pages title, reference and short strings
The maximum size of a page title, reference and short object properties strings moved from 255 to 768 characters.
Distinguish between system filters and custom filters in notification settings
The Notification settings UI has been modified to allow a better management of Notification filters. In particular, we now distinguish "System filters" which are filters provided as components and that users can only enabled and disabled, and "Custom filters" which are filters dedicated to specific locations that users can create themselves, enabled, disabled or delete. The Notification settings then display separately the system and custom filters, and we tried to improve the wording to explain what is their exact meaning.
For developer and administrators, note that we deprecated the old macro for notification filter preferences in favor of two dedicated macros: notification system filter preferences and notification custom filter preferences.
Live Data Inline Editing
The Live Data Macro has been improved to support inline editing. When the edit mode is allowed on a live data macro, a user with the edit right on the content of a cell can double click on a cell to edit it. The content of the cell is then converted into a form. Pressing escape will cancel the modifications, whereas clicking outside the edited cell will save its content and the Live Data will be reloaded to reflect the update.
Improved Live Data Macro L&F
The UI of the Live Data Macro has suffered a couple of changes:
- the hamburger menu has been moved to the right side, after the pagination
- the reload button has been moved inside the menu
- the menu groups are better separated
- added loading animation
- added support for resizing the columns in the table layout
- improved labels
See the Live Data Macro documentation for more information.
Experimental Realtime Wiki Editor
We cleaned up the Realtime Collaborative Plain WikiText Editor contributed extension and integrated it in the XWiki platform. It's not bundled yet in XWiki Standard but you can still try it out by installing it and following the documentation page.
Experimental Realtime WYSIWYG Editor
We cleaned up the Visual Realtime Collaborative Editor contributed extension and integrated it in the XWiki platform. It's not bundled yet in XWiki Standard but you can still try it out by installing it and following the documentation page.
Annotations on content generated by the HTML macro
Annotations can now be added on content generated by the HTML macro.
As a direct consequence, you can also add annotations to pages that are part of an application, such as AWM applications.
Link to in-place editor
You can now create a link to open a page directly in in-place editing mode, provided in-place editing is enabled:
You can also output a link to create a missing page translation in-place:
The Information tab uses this, for instance, to link to the missing page translations, when in-place editing is enabled.
Translate Page Button
A new Translate button is now visible when viewing a page, if the wiki is multilingual and the page has not been translated to the current user interface locale. This button allows you to create the missing translation. It opens the in-place editor or it takes you to the stand-alone editor (Wiki or WYSIWYG) depending on your preferences. See the Internationalization documentation for more information.
Live Data Boolean Filter
The Live Data Macro now provides a new Boolean filter, allowing boolean values to be filtered using a drop-down field instead of a text field.
Refactoring for references in macros
When a page is moved or renamed, the link and image references located inside inline-editable macros are now updated as well.
Live Data popover menu
Before XWiki 13.6, a double click on a property of a Live Data would switch it to edit mode. This mechanism was causing different issues, especially when the entries were containing links.
We have deactivated the double click and a popover is now shown to the user.
On devices equipped with a mouse, the popover is shown when hovering over an editable property and it proposes a single edit action.
On touch-based devices, the popover is shown on touch on editable entries, and on touch on any links. They respectively propose the edit and follow link actions (touching a link in an editable property proposes both actions).
Improved explanation when creating a translation page
When editing a wiki page in-place you might have seen a "Translate" button if the edited page was missing a translation for the current locale. It wasn't obvious what this button does and the small notification message shown at the bottom of the page was hardly noticeable so we replaced it with a popover that is shown first when you enter edit mode and then whenever you hover the button. We also replaced the notification shown after clicking on the "Translate" button (to create the translation) with a popover on the page title input to invite you to translate the page title.
Empty Content Placeholder in WYSIWYG Editor
The WYSIWYG Editor shows a placeholder text when the edited content is empty and the text area is not focused. See the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.
Data Types
The list of data types (classes) of the XClass Application is now displayed using the Live Data Macro.
Class Sheet
The list of existing pages with objects described by a class that is provided by the XClass Application as part of the default class sheet is now displayed using the Live Data Macro.
Filters for Static List properties in Live Data
The suggestions in the Live Data Macro's column filters now display labels or translations (if there are any) of the values of Static List properties instead of the plain values. The search for suggestions considers both the displayed label and the underlying value.
Wikis lists
The lists of wikis and wiki templates of the Wiki Application are now displayed using the Live Data Macro.
Mail Sending Status list
The Mail Sending Status list of the Mail Application is now displayed using the Live Data Macro.
Improved Notification Widget Style
Notification widget messages are now displayed with a style that is more aligned with XWiki UI guidelines regarding spacing, border and font weight.
Live Data performance improvements
The rendering time of the Live Data Macro has been improved. The performance is now comparable to the Livetable Macro.
For instance, taking the loading time of the Panels table with 30 rows, the rendering time is now of 2s 180ms with the optimization, and was 3s 50ms before the optimizations, and 2s 250ms with the Livetable Macro. In addition, when the Less style is not yet cached, the rendering time is improved by about 12 seconds.
Likes list in the user profile
The list of likes of a user are now displayed using the Live Data Macro.
User profile Groups list
The list of groups of a user in the user profile is now displayed using the Live Data Macro.
Orphaned Pages list
The list of Orphaned Pages of the Index Application is now displayed using the Live Data Macro.
Improved display when there is no entry
A message is now displayed when there is not entries to be displayed in a Live Data.
