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Preferences

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What

Dynamic preferences is a new feature of Tiki4, part of the Workspace project which

  • Makes it possible to have a Perspective admin interface (where each preference can be overridden per perspective
  • Makes management of current admin panels (tiki-admin.php) easier.
    • With Search/filter

About

Code name: "lesser magic"

Started in lesser-magic branch and later added to trunk for release in Tiki 4.0 Work is started to migrate all the 1000+ preferences from the old system to the new and is, with a few exceptions, completed in Tiki5.

Magic didn't succeed. It was probably too ambitious because it was trying to make all preferences dynamic (that's good), but to also automagically generate all admin panels (very hard because of exceptions)

For Workspaces / Perspectives, we need a way to set preferences in a workspace which are different than the global. We also want a way to provide workspace admins to set some of the prefs. But of course, not all 1000+ prefs! Only the ones that are relevant (turn wiki on/off, change theme, etc.)

So we need a dynamic admin panel per workspace. What is configurable by the workspace admin should be defined in the profile

Normal admin panels (tiki-admin.php) will remain so UX can have full control of how things are positioned, and to hide/show features depending on another setting. However, for the settings that are defined, the html can be generated dynamically (like a Smarty plugin)


Wishlist

  • Should add SEO and merge in tiki-admin.php?page=sefurl and tiki-admin.php?page=metatags
  • OSM maps and GoogleMaps in tiki-admin.php?page=maps
  • A button to rebuild index (useful after an upgrade)
    • Now rebuilds when unified index is rebuilt?
  • Tiki8: test pref levels with current profiles
    • If a profiles uses a pref, it could mean that it should be a basic pref.
  • Make prefs names as part of the index too (like feature_wiki)
  • Make some prefs that can run profiles in the background or otherwise
    • later (tricky and potentially dangerous)
  • Prefs: option to force clear cache upon modif of this pref
  • adding levels to each pref "Basic" "Advanced" and adding a drop-down toggle Basic, Regular and "Advanced" for tiki-admin.php Done in Tiki8
    • All prefs to be evaluated and a good chunk should become advanced Done in Tiki8
    • tabs with no options ideally don't appear. (if hard to do, just leave it) done
    • if an option is not of the default value, it should be shown in basic view, even if it's advanced. Done in Tiki8
    • in search results while in basic mode, advanced prefs can appear but should stand out (somehow)
    • In the future, get community ratings to preferences from Connect
  • add new param for prefs: ex.: urladmin=tiki-admin_trackers.php so when a feature is activated, we can easily find how to admin/use done
  • "My changes" admin panel: Show me diff than default. From here, link to http://profiles.tiki.org/Save+current+configuration+as+a+profile
  • If search results are filtered by tag, have a note to say so and a link (search again throughout all prefs)
  • Add a way that we can give custom feedback (ex.: "You activated forums, now click here to assign permissions to forums" or "You activated forums, now click here to create a forum.") This was tricky to do and this info can be useful not just after activating so we added contextual links in Tiki8.
  • Update this documentation to indicate all potential attributes of prefs (ex.: keywords is missing) See Create a new preference
  • Add a pref for demo mode
  • Admin panels: False feedback to the admin when activating or deactivating prefs (phantom prefs).
  • bookmark prefs in a "my admin panel"
  • A list of recently modified prefs (who-when-what view on syslogs) Done in quick admin module

Cleanup

  • no pref modifications should be leftover in tiki-admin_include_*.php files
  • Convert remaining data from lib/setup/prefs.php to lib/prefs/
  • Review all templates/admin/*.tpl files and make sure there aren't leftovers of the old system (as of 2010-08-20, there are some)


Alias

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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