[xwiki-users] WYSIWYG Editor Menu Missing in 3.1m1

Discussion:

Rob Gillen

2011-07-05 16:30:45 UTC

I've recently deployed XWiki (3.1m1) in a Tomcat 6 container, and was
playing around with the editing features when I noticed that the WYSIWYG
editor menu, which is supposed to sit right above the editor toolbar, is
missing. I've been unsuccessful in finding any posts regarding this issue,
and there doesn't seem to be very much information in the documentation
about it. Is there something that I need to do to enable it? or maybe I've
done something wrong. Perhaps someone can provide some hints to help.

In a similar note which may or may not be related, I've also noticed that
the Styles widget on the toolbar does not work. I noticed that for most
buttons (features according to the docs), after you have added the
appropriate plugin, the feature name autofills when you begin typing its
name. This never happened with the "style" plugin's "stylename" feature.
If I fill it out, the Style select box appears but does not contain any
styles.

Thanks!
Rob

Marius Dumitru Florea

2011-07-05 18:07:34 UTC

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Hi Rob,

Post by Rob Gillen
I've recently deployed XWiki (3.1m1) in a Tomcat 6 container, and was
playing around with the editing features when I noticed that the WYSIWYG
editor menu, which is supposed to sit right above the editor toolbar, is
missing. I've been unsuccessful in finding any posts regarding this issue,
and there doesn't seem to be very much information in the documentation
about it. Is there something that I need to do to enable it? or maybe I've
done something wrong. Perhaps someone can provide some hints to help.

We need more details:

* is it a clean 3.1M1? You didn't upgrade from a previous version and
you have imported the default 3.1M1 XAR, right?
* did you try to clear your browser cache?
* what browser are you using and which version?
* in the WYSIWYG editor administration section the menu configuration is
not empty, right? Are you able to edit the menu configuration?

Post by Rob Gillen
In a similar note which may or may not be related, I've also noticed that
the Styles widget on the toolbar does not work. I noticed that for most
buttons (features according to the docs), after you have added the
appropriate plugin, the feature name autofills when you begin typing its
name. This never happened with the "style" plugin's "stylename" feature.
If I fill it out, the Style select box appears but does not contain any
styles.

This is normal because XWiki Enterprise doesn't provide any styles by
default. If you want to use this feature you have to create the styles
by defining CSS classes in your skin (e.g. .error{color:red}) and then
registering them in the WYSIWYG editor administration section, at the
bottom of the page (e.g. style name = error).

Hope this helps,
Marius

Post by Rob Gillen
Thanks!
Rob
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Rob Gillen

2011-07-05 19:12:18 UTC

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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea
Hi Rob,

* is it a clean 3.1M1? You didn't upgrade from a previous version and
you have imported the default 3.1M1 XAR, right?
* did you try to clear your browser cache?
* what browser are you using and which version?
* in the WYSIWYG editor administration section the menu configuration is
not empty, right? Are you able to edit the menu configuration?

* Yes, it was a clean 3.1M1 installation, not an upgrade.
* I did import the default 3.1M1 XAR.
* Clearing the browser cache (and cookies) made no difference in any browser.
* I've been using Firefox 5.0, but tried Explorer 7 in response to
your question. Both manifest the same issue.
* The menu configuration had some configured defaults (all that are
available, I believe).
* I've tried removing, re-adding, and rearranging the menu items.

I also haven't noted any errors in the tomcat logs; although, I
suspect this is probably a browser/client issue and not a server one.

I think I'll try out the all-in-one zip again. It might be my
imagination, but I don't recall seeing the menu the last time I ran
that one when I was evaluating xwiki.

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea

That wasn't clear to me when I asked the question (although I hadn't
looked too deeply into it).

Thanks!

Rob Gillen

2011-07-05 20:17:45 UTC

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Post by Rob Gillen
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea
Hi Rob,

Post by Rob Gillen
I've recently deployed XWiki (3.1m1) in a Tomcat 6 container, and was
playing around with the editing features when I noticed that the WYSIWYG
editor menu, which is supposed to sit right above the editor toolbar, is
missing. ?I've been unsuccessful in finding any posts regarding this issue,
and there doesn't seem to be very much information in the documentation
about it. ?Is there something that I need to do to enable it? or maybe I've
done something wrong. ?Perhaps someone can provide some hints to help.

* Yes, it was a clean 3.1M1 installation, not an upgrade.
* I did import the default 3.1M1 XAR.
* Clearing the browser cache (and cookies) made no difference in any browser.
* I've been using Firefox 5.0, but tried Explorer 7 in response to
your question. ?Both manifest the same issue.
* The menu configuration had some configured defaults (all that are
available, I believe).
* I've tried removing, re-adding, and rearranging the menu items.
I also haven't noted any errors in the tomcat logs; although, I
suspect this is probably a browser/client issue and not a server one.
I think I'll try out the all-in-one zip again. ?It might be my
imagination, but I don't recall seeing the menu the last time I ran
that one when I was evaluating xwiki.

Ok, I tried the all-in-one zip, and there were no issues when
displaying the editor menu. It was there, fully functioning. Just
for kicks, I ran a diff between the all-in-one and the uncompressed
WAR contents and saw nothing significantly different between the two.
The differences mostly amounted to my changes to set up a JNDI
datasource (in the hibernate.cfg.xml file) for Oracle and turning on
stats. I've also tried bouncing tomcat just to make sure that any
changes to configuration files were applied.

Marius Dumitru Florea

2011-07-06 06:58:57 UTC

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Post by Rob Gillen

Post by Rob Gillen
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea
Hi Rob,

* Yes, it was a clean 3.1M1 installation, not an upgrade.
* I did import the default 3.1M1 XAR.
* Clearing the browser cache (and cookies) made no difference in any browser.
* I've been using Firefox 5.0, but tried Explorer 7 in response to
your question. Both manifest the same issue.
* The menu configuration had some configured defaults (all that are
available, I believe).
* I've tried removing, re-adding, and rearranging the menu items.
I also haven't noted any errors in the tomcat logs; although, I
suspect this is probably a browser/client issue and not a server one.
I think I'll try out the all-in-one zip again. It might be my
imagination, but I don't recall seeing the menu the last time I ran
that one when I was evaluating xwiki.

If the JavaScript code from resources/js/xwiki/wysiwyg/xwe is the same
and the editor configuration is fine then the menu should be displayed
both on Jetty and Tomcat. You should check three things:

(1) View the HTML source when in WYSIWYG edit mode and search for
"wysiwygConfig". The first match should be a JavaScript object that
holds the WYSIWYG editor configuration. The value of the 'menu' property
should be similar to: 'link image table macro import'.

(2) In Firefox, if you have Firebug extension installed you can open the
Console tab and click on the "Break On All Errors" icon then reload the
page. You should get only one or two "null has no properties" (harmless)
exceptions.

(3) Open the HTML tab of Firebug and search for "gwt-MenuBar" (use the
search box in the right corner of the Firebug window). Does it find
something? Maybe the menu is there but is hidden for some reason.

Hope this helps,
Marius

Post by Rob Gillen
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Rob Gillen

2011-07-06 14:59:09 UTC

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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea
<mariusdumitru.florea at xwiki.com> wrote:

<snip>

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Rob Gillen
Ok, I tried the all-in-one zip, and there were no issues when
displaying the editor menu. ?It was there, fully functioning. ?Just
for kicks, I ran a diff between the all-in-one and the uncompressed
WAR contents and saw nothing significantly different between the two.
The differences mostly amounted to my changes to set up a JNDI
datasource (in the hibernate.cfg.xml file) for Oracle and turning on
stats. ?I've also tried bouncing tomcat just to make sure that any
changes to configuration files were applied.

If the JavaScript code from resources/js/xwiki/wysiwyg/xwe is the same
and the editor configuration is fine then the menu should be displayed
(1) View the HTML source when in WYSIWYG edit mode and search for
"wysiwygConfig". The first match should be a JavaScript object that
holds the WYSIWYG editor configuration. The value of the 'menu' property
should be similar to: 'link image table macro import'.

I never saw anything quite that simple. I did see a "menu"
associative array (hash) key used in a javascript variable named
"wysiwygConfigdJG4". Here's the relevant key/value:

menu: '[{\"feature\":\"link\",\"subMenu\":[\"linkEdit\",\"linkRemove\",\"linkWikiPage\",\"linkAttachment\",\"|\",\"linkWebPage\",\"linkEmail\",\"|\",\"alfrescoLink\"]},{\"feature\":\"image\",\"subMenu\":[\"imageInsertAttached\",\"imageInsertURL\",\"imageEdit\",\"alfrescoImage\",\"imageRemove\"]},{\"feature\":\"table\",\"subMenu\":[\"inserttable\",\"insertcolbefore\",\"insertcolafter\",\"deletecol\",\"|\",\"insertrowbefore\",\"insertrowafter\",\"deleterow\",\"|\",\"deletetable\"]},{\"feature\":\"macro\",\"subMenu\":[\"macroInsert\",\"macroEdit\",\"|\",\"macroRefresh\",\"|\",\"macroCollapse\",\"macroExpand\"]},{\"feature\":\"import\",\"subMenu\":[\"importOffice\"]}]'

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea
(2) In Firefox, if you have Firebug extension installed you can open the
Console tab and click on the "Break On All Errors" icon then reload the
page. You should get only one or two "null has no properties" (harmless)
exceptions.

It broke on two null values. No issues there I guess.

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea
(3) Open the HTML tab of Firebug and search for "gwt-MenuBar" (use the
search box in the right corner of the Firebug window). Does it find
something? Maybe the menu is there but is hidden for some reason.

This is where I'm seeing nothing in my tomcat-deployed wiki. I did
find the toolbar DIV (class="xToolBar") in the table having the
xRichTextEditorTabPanel class. Within the xRichTextEditor DIV, there
is only the toolbar DIV. Conversely, in the Jetty-based wiki (which
has the menubar) I can see that the xRichTextEditor DIV does indeed
contain a gwt-MenuBar DIV above the toolbar DIV.

This really seems like it might be related to some configuration item
since the only thing that remains significantly different between the
Tomcat is the persistence layer. I might just try blowing away the
schema in Oracle (10g) and restarting to see if I did something screwy
while setting it up.

Marius Dumitru Florea

2011-07-07 06:59:40 UTC

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Post by Rob Gillen
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea

[snip]

Post by Rob Gillen
I never saw anything quite that simple. I did see a "menu"
associative array (hash) key used in a javascript variable named
menu: '[{\"feature\":\"link\",\"subMenu\":[\"linkEdit\",\"linkRemove\",\"linkWikiPage\",\"linkAttachment\",\"|\",\"linkWebPage\",\"linkEmail\",\"|\",\"alfrescoLink\"]},{\"feature\":\"image\",\"subMenu\":[\"imageInsertAttached\",\"imageInsertURL\",\"imageEdit\",\"alfrescoImage\",\"imageRemove\"]},{\"feature\":\"table\",\"subMenu\":[\"inserttable\",\"insertcolbefore\",\"insertcolafter\",\"deletecol\",\"|\",\"insertrowbefore\",\"insertrowafter\",\"deleterow\",\"|\",\"deletetable\"]},{\"feature\":\"macro\",\"subMenu\":[\"macroInsert\",\"macroEdit\",\"|\",\"macroRefresh\",\"|\",\"macroCollapse\",\"macroExpand\"]},{\"feature\":\"import\",\"subMenu\":[\"importOffice\"]}]'

This is the issue. The menu configuration has been changed in 3.1M2 (see
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31M2#HWYSIWYGEditorConfiguration
). I suppose you have imported the Milestone 2 XAR instead of Milestone 1.

The M1 XAR can be found here
http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/org/xwiki/enterprise/xwiki-enterprise-wiki/3.1-milestone-1/
.

Hope this helps,
Marius

Rob Gillen

2011-07-07 18:23:18 UTC

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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Rob Gillen
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea

[snip]

Post by Rob Gillen
I never saw anything quite that simple. ?I did see a "menu"
associative array (hash) key used in a javascript variable named
menu: '[{\"feature\":\"link\",\"subMenu\":[\"linkEdit\",\"linkRemove\",\"linkWikiPage\",\"linkAttachment\",\"|\",\"linkWebPage\",\"linkEmail\",\"|\",\"alfrescoLink\"]},{\"feature\":\"image\",\"subMenu\":[\"imageInsertAttached\",\"imageInsertURL\",\"imageEdit\",\"alfrescoImage\",\"imageRemove\"]},{\"feature\":\"table\",\"subMenu\":[\"inserttable\",\"insertcolbefore\",\"insertcolafter\",\"deletecol\",\"|\",\"insertrowbefore\",\"insertrowafter\",\"deleterow\",\"|\",\"deletetable\"]},{\"feature\":\"macro\",\"subMenu\":[\"macroInsert\",\"macroEdit\",\"|\",\"macroRefresh\",\"|\",\"macroCollapse\",\"macroExpand\"]},{\"feature\":\"import\",\"subMenu\":[\"importOffice\"]}]'

This is the issue. The menu configuration has been changed in 3.1M2 (see
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31M2#HWYSIWYGEditorConfiguration
). I suppose you have imported the Milestone 2 XAR instead of Milestone 1.
The M1 XAR can be found here
http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/org/xwiki/enterprise/xwiki-enterprise-wiki/3.1-milestone-1/

The XAR that I downloaded actually had no milestone markings, and it
was marked as the "stable" 3.1 release from the XWiki download page:

http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download

The link goes to:

http://forge.ow2.org/project/download.php?group_id=170&file_id=16847

which redirects to (an ultra slow download):

http://download.forge.objectweb.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-wiki-3.1.xar

According to the checksum (sha1) values, the file is the same as the
file located at this maven repo link:

http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/org/xwiki/enterprise/xwiki-enterprise-wiki/3.1/xwiki-enterprise-wiki-3.1.xar

The date on that file is 20-Jun-2011, which is quite a bit newer than
even the 3.1m2 XAR file (i.e. 24-May-2011). Not sure if someone
messed up on that, but it might be a good idea to change the file to
the correct one in the download page. Any idea when milestone 2 is
going to arrive?

Thanks for all your help, Marius!

-Rob

Marius Dumitru Florea

2011-07-08 06:24:01 UTC

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Hi Rob,

Our release cycle usually has two milestones before the final version.
The version that is now available for download on xwiki.org is 3.1 final
(so 3.1 milestone 2 has already been released before 3.1 final). How did
you get the 3.1 milestone 1 war? Could be that the war link was pointing
to the 3.1 milestone 1 version and the xar link to the final version? I
doubt it but maybe the release manager didn't update the links on the
download page properly. Right now they seems to be fine, all pointing to
the latest stable version, 3.1 final that is.

You should download the 3.1 final war.

Hope this helps,
Marius

Post by Rob Gillen
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Marius Dumitru Florea

Post by Rob Gillen
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea

[snip]

This is the issue. The menu configuration has been changed in 3.1M2 (see
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31M2#HWYSIWYGEditorConfiguration
). I suppose you have imported the Milestone 2 XAR instead of Milestone 1.
The M1 XAR can be found here
http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/org/xwiki/enterprise/xwiki-enterprise-wiki/3.1-milestone-1/

The XAR that I downloaded actually had no milestone markings, and it
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download
http://forge.ow2.org/project/download.php?group_id=170&file_id=16847
http://download.forge.objectweb.org/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise-wiki-3.1.xar
According to the checksum (sha1) values, the file is the same as the
http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/org/xwiki/enterprise/xwiki-enterprise-wiki/3.1/xwiki-enterprise-wiki-3.1.xar
The date on that file is 20-Jun-2011, which is quite a bit newer than
even the 3.1m2 XAR file (i.e. 24-May-2011). Not sure if someone
messed up on that, but it might be a good idea to change the file to
the correct one in the download page. Any idea when milestone 2 is
going to arrive?
Thanks for all your help, Marius!
-Rob
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