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Automated Documentation

This page is to brainstorm and document what has been done in Tiki in the way of automation its documentation. This is beneficial because it keeps Tiki specs up to date with the online documentation. It also often means that efforts to document only need to be done once, instead of within the wiki code and also within the online docs.

Ideal Solution Features

  • Provide Tiki version history of evolving specs
  • Have formatting available for a rich experience online.
  • Is 100% self-updating, requiring no human intervention
  • Provides a solution to a wide array of documentation needs
  • Provide a standard user experience
  • Has a low barrier of entry for updating documentation

Dream Features (may not happen but would be nice in a perfect world)

  • Can generically pull documentation from a wide array of places, such as outside of tiki etc.
  • Documentation could be updated both in code and online


Currently Automated documentation:

Documentation pages we should automate:

  • Database Access - Many aspects here might get out of date and have differing version requirements.
  • Tracker Field Types
  • Fields and their variations available in the search index as seen Unified Index (always out of date)
    (Should be taken from objects implementing \Search_ContentSource_Interface::getDocument or Z\Tracker_Field_Indexable::getDocumentPart and should be double checked with \Tracker_Field_Indexable::getProvidedFields , \Search_GlobalSource_Interface::getProvidedFields and \Search_ContentSource_Interface::getProvidedFields perhaps)
  • All Preferences
  • All Plugins
  • All Modules


If we had a solution that could create documentation from diverse sources, other software projects could use tiki to solve the issues they also have in in-line documentation vs online documentation. Might bring much welcome attention to tiki form other software projects.

Also of note is that Plugin Manager does not retain version history, and there are inconsistencies between the interface that prefdoc and plugin manager produce, namely that the icons and formatting that are a nice touch in prefdoc are not implemented in plugin manager. Plugin manager also uses bolded lettering for defaults, while they appear in a separate column in prefdoc.

It is interesting to note that the All Preferences page looks significantly different than the All Plugins and All Modules page. Some discussion about what the use of these pages are and what kind of info should be shown is perhaps needed. There is currently a way to list all the plugins in a style more in keeping with how the plugins are displayed (name and description) in an automated way with Plugin Manager, but it seems like it is not utilized.

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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