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Profile Manager

draft notes about profile manager feature.


Intro

Installation profiles is a feature that existed in Tiki for many years. It worked well to use but creating a profile was not easy enough as you needed to run a shell script (mk_profile.sh). Thus, we only had a handful of profiles, none of which were pro-actively maintained or very useful. In June 2008, Louis-Philippe Huberdeau took up the challenge and you can follow progress on http://profiles.tiki.org The old mk_profile.sh script will be retired.


Wishlist

Open

 RatingSubjectImportanceCategoryCreated
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help OpenSourceCMS type demo to test/develop and show off profiles8Feature request
Community projects
Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site		2008-01
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Profile Validation8Bug: Error
Bug: Usability		2011-05
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (0) Help Site customisation should be highlighted and All features enabled by default, empty header.tpl 7Feature request
Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site		2008-08
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Profiles Repository URLs Are Not Connect 7Bug: Usability
Support request		2009-11
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (0) Help User list/Friend Network reactivation in Tikiwiki 3.26Feature request2009-10
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Adding YAML to GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter for use in profiles5Feature request
Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site		2009-02
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (0) Help wiki_edit_plugin changes the syntax and can't be used for profiles.tikiwiki.org5Bug: conflict of two features (each works well independently)2009-04
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (0) Help Make it possible to have a message only visible on first run (ex.: u: admin p: admin)5Bug: Usability
Feature request		2009-05
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Need a Save As Profile feature to create YAML from existing site5Feature request
Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site		2010-11
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Managing XML in TikiWiki for re-use by external apps3Feature request2007-11
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (0) Help Cannot connect to profile repos after svn update3Bug: Error
Incident		2009-11
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Getting Things Done (GTD) profile1 lowFeature request2008-03
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help pretty tracker demo cannot be applied1 lowBug: Error2010-09
open -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Organic GroupsBug: Usability2011-03


Pending

 RatingSubjectImportanceCategoryCreated
pending -2 -1 0 1 2 (3) Help Tiki trackers for issue tracker / help desk -> customer support requests (requests are private)8Feature request
Documentation (or Advocacy)		2007-08
pending -2 -1 0 1 2 (3) Help Tracker templates (import/export tracker definitions/structure)7Feature request
Community projects		2007-06
pending -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Apostrophe in Username breaks Tiki7Bug: Error
Bug: Usability		2009-09
pending -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Classifieds System / Job board5Feature request2005-06


Closed

 RatingSubjectImportanceCategoryCreated
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (4) Help Custom CSS values which overrides chosen CSS (and are kept in database to be future-proof)9 highFeature request2007-08
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (5) Help Tiki site in a box (Profile Manager)9 highFeature request
Request		2007-11
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (5) Help Allow a user role or group to automatically generate a personal page, an image gallery, a weblog a9 highFeature request2008-11
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Company Profile 4.x installation causes duplicate entries.9 highBug: Usability
Less than 30-minute fix		2009-12
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (3) Help DefaultSettingsChanges in 1.105Feature request
Community projects		2005-04
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help Expense reports3Feature request2008-03
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (4) Help Bibliography management system (references)2Feature request
Request		2008-05
closed -2 -1 0 1 2 (1) Help 5 RC1 HomePage Incorrectly lists Profile FeaturesBug: Error
Documentation (or Advocacy)		2010-05



Export current configuration via GUI(to make it easy to create some)

  • Settings
  • Groups but not users
  • Permissions
  • Default home page
  • Default settings for new forums, image galleries, etc

What about?

  • Custom menus (ML: very good idea because some profiles (ex.: corporate site, events) have consistent base menu
  • Forums, etc. pre-created
  • Help data (like in wiki page)
  • Tracker definitions and some wiki pages to use
  • Workflows?

More ideas

  • dthacker was suggesting a "Profile Snapshot tool"
  • Maybe use TikiTests as a Wizard to setup features? (and have built-in test!)
  • Reset to defaults (ex: after upgrade). So everything should be in lib/pref (vs sql)
  • Content of default home page.
    • split plugin and modules in a wiki page
    • directly tiki articles as home page
    • etc.

  • Potential issues
How to combine 2 profiles? Need to cumulate settings but what if in contradiction?



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profiles profile

Page last modified on Monday 20 December, 2010 02:11:03 UTC

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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.