Trackers Revamp

This is a big project, which is well underway.

This phase is to have the same functionality in Tiki7 than Tiki6 but with a cleaner code base and reduce Technical debt. And from there, we can easily improve things for Tiki8 and beyond. This is crucial as many of the future enhancements will depend on a better tracker code base. Ref: Tracker Issues 7.x and Tracker Roadmap.

When

Timeline

• Planning: October-November 2010
  • What do we want
• Pick general direction December 2010
  • Underlying technology & architecture -> Tracker Roadmap
  • Recruit devs and testers
• Coding sprint at TikiFestBoston7

As this is a big project, it will likely be spread out over Tiki7 and Tiki8, like workspaces was over Tiki4 and Tiki5.

This will be done along side Wiki Parser revamp, Spreadsheet enhancements and addition of TimeSheet feature, which will likely use stuff from all of this.

Who

• Louis-Philippe
• Sylvie
• Jonny
• Marc
• Robert
• you?

What

• Cleaner code so more developers want to work with
• Multivalued trackers
• Address field which is contextual to country (choose country, and the zip code of that country will appear)
  • http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.validate.set.html#zend.validate.set.post_code
• Allow using alternate storage methods (wiki pages, cloud databases, real tables, etc.)
  • The infrastructure is now ready for this in Tiki8
• Better integration between user trackers and user prefs
  • Customer Relationship Management-type mail-merge from tracker data, with wiki pages as templates (see Goeff's mail on dev list)
• speed optimization
  • Can we close this? wish2549
• Read & write via Web Services
• multi-rating (on wiki and trackers)
• Anonymous questionnaires (can only fill-in once)
  • Receive an email with unique ID
• Seamless integration with Spreadsheet (spreadsheets dynamically generated from tracker data)
• TrackerField UI Revamp
  • use same UI as modules and plugins
  • hide advanced field options or have a feature check (ex.: multilingual should only appear on multilingual site)
• Status should have more than 3 options (opc)
• Display Logic
• TimeLine viewer integration
• fix typos in the code such as attachements -> attachments
• http://blog.jqueryui.com/2011/02/unleash-the-grid/

Long term

The tracker revamp will facilitate building/improving the following features/use cases in the future:

• Customer Relationship Management
• Accounting
• Decision
• OData

About upgrades

• This will be a serious revamp, focused on the future. Not everything will be backward-compatible. If you are using trackers extensively, your choices will be to stay on Tiki6 LTS (which will last for at least 18 months) or you can go along with Tiki7 and help add/fix/complete the features.

Links to look at

• Doctrine
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_object-relational_mapping_software#PHP

Related wishes

	Rating	Subject	Importance	Category	Created
	(1)	user tracker don't work with registration	9 high	Bug: Error	2011-10
	(2)	Community/Customer/Constituent Relationship Management system (CRM)	8	Feature request	2008-06
	(1)	RFE: admin interface 4 template message emailed to new users to a group (registered, or others)	8	Feature request Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site	2009-03
	(2)	Resource Checkout System and rental pool (to reserve rooms, books, cars, etc).	7	Feature request	2008-05
	(0)	Tracker Watch notification if not simple	7	Bug: Error	2011-06
	(0)	Category field in tracker not displayed	7	Bug: Usability	2011-11
	(4)	Gantt charts	6	Feature request	2008-06
	(1)	Classifieds System / Job board	5	Feature request	2005-06
	(0)	Regression: tracker text fields with Prepend and Append values do not display correctly.	5	Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Bug: Regression	2011-05
	(1)	Edit/add multiple tracker items in one operation (mass edits)	5	Feature request	2012-05
	(0)	Trackers: have a spreadsheet view for multiple edits at once, and to use fill down and copy-paste from another Spreadsheet app	5	Feature request	2012-05
	(1)	Rating Tracker Bugs		Bug: Usability	2011-07
	(1)	Tracker Edit Attachment Field POST 500 Error		Bug: Error	2011-11

	Page	Hits	Last mod	Last author	Last ver.	Backl.
	Batch actions on the bug tracker	1026	19 Jan. 12 23:15 UTC add link to discussion	Philippe Cloutier	5
	Calendar to Tracker association	538	02 Feb. 11 14:15 UTC	Geoff Brickell	2
	Deployment of Category Jail for Trackers	1444	05 Aug. 09 09:11 UTC	luciash d' being	5
	DevTrackerStructure How is dev.tikiwiki.org wishlist made?	5352	26 July 09 23:18 UTC clarify	Kissaki	7
	Issue Tracker	4290	27 July 09 00:17 UTC	Kissaki	10
	Mirror Trackers	41753	28 Aug. 09 12:23 UTC	Marc Laporte	8
	Project Management - Tracker Integration	452	27 Oct. 10 15:56 UTC	Geoff Brickell	2
	testtrackeritemfield testing	4993	26 July 09 22:43 UTC	Kissaki	15
	TestTrackerlist	2219	10 Nov. 09 19:33 UTC	Nelson	22
	TKM Proposed Framework: Tracker Macros The Kerrnel's Musings (TKM) on a Proposed Framework for Tracker Modules.	1245	25 Nov. 08 03:35 UTC Changed name to Macros from Modules to eliminate confusion.	Mike	2
	Tracker Field Visibility	1561	13 June 08 21:33 UTC	sylvie	5
	Tracker Issues 7.x	2506	28 Mar. 12 22:22 UTC	Marc Laporte	136
	Tracker performance	5652	21 May 11 17:30 UTC	Marc Laporte	9
	Tracker Query	1815	13:36 UTC	robertplummer	34
	Tracker Reports	590	27 Mar. 12 16:31 UTC	robertplummer	2
	Tracker Roadmap	1205	28 Apr. 11 13:53 UTC	Louis-Philippe Huberdeau	15
	Tracker to Tracker association	323	02 Feb. 11 14:05 UTC Table of Contents (Structure) Plugin modified by editor.	Geoff Brickell	3
	Tracker-to-tracker Index List use case	463	02 Feb. 11 14:15 UTC	Geoff Brickell	2
	Tracker-to-tracker Master List use case	771	02 Feb. 11 14:14 UTC	Geoff Brickell	2
	TrackerField UI Revamp Revamp of the Tracker Field Admin UI	3265	17 Oct. 10 15:30 UTC page was renamed	Marc Laporte	7
	TrackerFilter not working for Wishlist	927	13 Sep. 09 16:32 UTC	Marc Laporte	3
	Trackers Forms & database generator with forms and reports in wiki pages	59434	08 Oct. 11 21:48 UTC	Marc Laporte	35
	Trackers DB schema	2414	12 June 08 21:55 UTC	Marc Laporte	9
	Trackers Examples What do you do with trackers?	4503	31 Jan. 08 15:50 UTC	Marc Laporte	5
	Trackers Revamp	3841	28 Apr. 12 23:04 UTC	Marc Laporte	31
	TrackerToGanttChart Hack on viewing tracker items on a Gantt chart	8706	25 Sep. 08 14:03 UTC	jbonnet	20

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