Written by
The XWiki Team
We are excited to share that XWiki Cloud is now running on version 14.4.3. This release brings many new features around working with images, as well as attachment improvements that enhance the collaborative capabilities and usability of your wiki. Please read on to find out more about the updates.
- Display images in a lightbox
- Image captions
- New experimental image dialog
- Image popover
- Image Gallery Picker
- Attachment improvements
- Discovering and installing macros from the editor
- How are you finding the new features?
Display images in a lightbox
You can now open images from the page content in a lightbox (as shown below). While hovering an image, a toolbar will appear with options for opening the image in lightbox mode or to download it. The lightbox displays the image along with some information about it, depending on whether it’s attached to a wiki page or it's an external one. Actions like downloading, toggling the browser full-screen mode, or starting/stopping a carousel play of all images found in the page content are also available. You can toggle the visibility of the image caption and action buttons by clicking on the image.
Image captions
A feature meant to improve the overall collaboration capabilities and usability of XWiki is the captioning of images. The syntax can be found below:
When using this feature, the image is rendered as an image with "Caption content" as the caption, but of course, you can edit the caption however you see fit.
New experimental image dialog
The next improvement in version 14.4.3 is quite an exciting one, as it simplifies the insertion and editing of images in the WYSIWYG editor through a new image dialog. The new dialog is currently disabled by default, but you can enable it anytime from the WYSIWYG Editor section in the Wiki Administration. All you have to do is look for 'xwiki-image' in the drop-down of the disabled CKEditor plugins and uncheck it, then save.
This new image dialog is integrated with the Image Style Administration section, so users can apply image styles defined by an administrator.
Image popover
In each new XWiki cloud version, we strive to make the product as accessible and easy to use as possible. That is why, the image popover will now be displayed at the cursor location, to make it more visible to an everyday user.
Image Gallery Picker
The new Attachment Gallery Picker Macro is integrated into the new CKEditor Image Dialog. Images can now be searched by keyword and can be previewed before selection.
Attachment improvements
This feature is especially useful if you want to optimize your wiki space. When moving an attachment, the pages using the moved attachment have their path automatically updated to point to the new location of the document/image, all while continuing to show the said attachment. This update happens each time you change the location. You can uncheck this feature in the move attachment form, as shown in the image below:
Discovering and installing macros from the editor
It's now possible for an admin to install and use a macro directly in the WYSIWYG macros picker. A list of not yet installed compatible macros is proposed at the end to improve discoverability.
In future releases, the feature will be made available to all users (even non-admins) for increased discoverability. Non-admin users will see a message asking them to contact an administrator to install the needed macro.
How are you finding the new features?
To try out these features and other improvements, you can create a cloud demo in a couple of minutes. XWiki Cloud is the most convenient and cost-effective way to run XWiki. We take care of the setup, hosting, upgrades, maintenance, and backups, so you can focus on getting things done.
