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• Administration 9.x

Description

Context :

• Wiki's administration display many informations that can be set, but it needs a PHD in technology to be done correctly
• The new xwiki distributions come with less elements included and is more and more extension based

Actual situation :

• There are a lot of available options which confuse most admins
• The applications are represented by one bloc from the left column which is far from the top of the screen
• Global admins and local admins can access this administration with the same options. Thus local admins have less responsibility on the wiki farm.

Actual flows :

• Local admins do not touch anything since they think that the administration of sub-wikis is too complicated/advanced for them.
• Administration of application is often not seen

Feature proposal :

• Hide options from the UI to simplify it
• Allow an advanced and a simple mode for the administration
  • The advanced mode will show all of it
  • The simple mode (default mode) would show only the necessary items for a wiki to be configured by an end-user
• Simple mode :
  • Wiki
    • Informations (all field in the page)
      • Descriptor
      • Pretty name
      • Description
      • Home page
      • Owner 
    • Configurations (all fields in the page)
      • Versioning > Enable version summaries 
      • Language > Multilingual (Yes/No)
        • Yes > Supported languages
      • Language > Default Language
      • Date / Time > Date format
      • Date / Time > Timezone 
      • Office server state
      • (If local users) Email > Obfuscate Email Addresses
      • Email > Email address to send from
    • Content templates (keep the actual)
  • Look & Feel (all fields in the page)
    • Design
      • Design > Wiki logo
      • Design > ColourTheme > Pick a ColourTheme
      • Design > ColourTheme > Manage ColourTheme
      • Page metadata visibility > Show page annotations
      • Page metadata visibility > Show page comments
      • Page metadata visibility > Show page attachments
      • Page metadata visibility > Show page history
      • Page metadata visibility > Show page information
      • Footer > Space Copyright
      • Footer > Version
    • Panel Wizard
  • Users & groups
    • Member (keep the actual without the Configuration section)
    • Groups (keep the actual but rename XWikiAllGroup into MembersGroup)
    • Rights (keep the actual)
  • Extension manager (Keep only the first page "add extensions" and add the update button into it and a filter to see only user installed extensions)
  • Application
    • Annotations
    • Google Analytics™
    • User Directory
    • Applications Panel
    • ... other installed applications
• Advanced mode
  • All features that can't be set at the sub-wiki level should be removed

Feature benefits :

• SImpler UI aiming towards end-users
• Simpler access to applications administration
• Concept of advanced/simple already well known
• Nothing removed

Feature flows :

• Still not good enough to present applications
  • An other proposal with only 2 sections would be best (Wiki and Application)

Second design :