Set of useful Macros

• Vincent Massol
• Simon Urli

Develop a set of XWiki Rendering Macros to make it easy to perform well-defined tasks in XWiki for non-technical users. Right now everything is possible using the Scripting macros of XWiki. However that's reserved to technical users. The idea is to identify common needs and implement specific macros to fulfil those needs.

Goals & Ideas

• Form macro + Button macros to avoid needing the use of HTML macro and very simply add a button or a form in a wiki page. See also Form in page FAQ
• Search macro to display a Search box in a wiki page and to display search results, with possibility of passing search parameters.
• Members macro to display all the members of a given Group into a LiveTable and/or a Tree
• Contributors macro to display all the authors who have contributed to a wiki page.
• Develop these new macro as XWiki Extensions on XWiki Contrib and release them.
• Propose new macros if time permits it. Ideas can be taken from New macros idea list. Some of these macros have already been implemented but the implementation may not work anymore in the latest versions of XWiki or can be improved. Improving them using new technologies would be great.

Technologies useful:

• Javascript
• HTML/CSS
• Velocity
• Possibly Java for some macros

2019

Proposed