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

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solve CreatedLastModifComments
(0) wiki_edit_plugin changes the syntax and can't be used for profiles.tikiwiki.org525
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
2009-04-102009-04-100
(0) Make it possible to have a message only visible on first run (ex.: u: admin p: admin)525
  • Usability
  • Feature request
2009-05-182009-05-180
(0) User list/Friend Network reactivation in Tikiwiki 3.2wincel630
  • Feature request
2009-10-272009-10-274
wincel-28 Oct 09
(0) pretty tracker demo cannot be appliedheb1 low5
  • Error
2010-09-292010-09-290
(0) Organic GroupsGreg Wheat25
  • Usability
2011-03-132011-03-130
(0) Profile ValidationPascal St-Jean840
  • Error
  • Usability
2011-05-102011-05-100
(0) OpenSourceCMS type demo to test/develop and show off profilesMarc Laporte8756
  • Feature request
  • Community projects
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2008-01-292018-10-192
luci-22 Oct 18
(0) Site customisation should be highlighted and All features enabled by default, empty header.tpl othman735
  • Feature request
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2008-08-032009-05-181
nyloth-13 Aug 08
(0) Adding YAML to GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter for use in profilesMarc Laporte525
  • Feature request
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2009-02-202009-02-201
marclaporte-23 Sep 10
(0) allow_comments or comments from a profile blog definition stopped workingXavier de Pedro6742
  • Community projects
  • Regression
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
2014-02-262014-02-260
(0) sender_email can't be set as $profilerequest:sender_email$YourEmail@example.com$Xavier de Pedro3824
  • Error
  • Community projects
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
2016-10-142017-01-091
luci-19 Oct 16
(0) Applying Profile thinks line with #foo selector in CSS code is a comment and omits itluciash d' being 🧙10 high50
  • Usability
2016-10-272016-10-273
luci-05 Dec 16
(0) Profiles exporter exports only those custom modules which are assigned to a module zoneluciash d' being 🧙25
  • Usability
  • Feature request
2016-10-282017-09-060
(0) Allow profiles to be found by associated freetag in profiles.t.o through the "Control Panel > Profiles" search boxXavier de Pedro8648
  • Feature request
  • Support request
  • Community projects
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2017-01-192017-01-191
xavi-20 Jan 17
(0) Profiles: $profilerequest ignores user input when applying a profileluciash d' being 🧙9763
  • Regression
2017-06-202017-06-201
luci-20 Jun 17
(0) Improving Admin => Profile page Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist25
  • Feature request
2017-08-082022-04-200
(0) Allow searching by categories and TAGS through the Profiles Control Panel in TikiXavier de Pedro8864
  • Usability
  • Feature request
  • Support request
  • Community projects
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
  • Consistency
2017-08-192017-08-190
(0) Profile soft (UX/UI) revamp proposalBernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist8540
  • Usability
  • Feature request
  • Community projects
  • Consistency
2018-09-092021-08-055
Torsten-17 Apr 22
(0) Extended support for additional user input controls like checkboxes and dropdowns (single/multi selections)SiL3NC321 difficult2
  • Feature request
2019-12-022019-12-040

Pending

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solve CreatedLastModifComments
(0) Getting Things Done (GTD) profileMarc Laporte25
  • Feature request
2008-03-092018-06-280
(0) WSoD on profile using array type preferencesJonny Bradley8540
  • Release Blocker
  • Bug
Jonny Bradley2024-05-032024-05-031
jonnybradley-03 May 24

Closed

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solve CreatedLastModifComments
(0) Allow a user role or group to automatically generate a personal page, an image gallery, a weblog adweade9 high45
  • Feature request
Louis-Philippe Huberdeau2008-11-062010-02-062
marclaporte-06 Feb 10
(0) Can't find any profilesCircuitsoft7535
  • Bug
Marc Laporte2020-09-032020-09-040
(0) Profile preview fails with ugly CSRF errorluciash d' being 🧙8648
  • Error
  • Regression
rjsmelo, Jorge Sá Pereira, lindon2018-08-232019-01-227
luci-22 Jan 19
(0) Setting User Tracker id login and registration fields from Profile failsXavier de Pedro5735
  • Error
  • Community projects
Xavier de Pedro2014-03-012014-08-150
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  • 2 (current)
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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?


For information about how to develop Tiki Profiles go to http://profiles.tiki.org/Profile+Developer+Documentation

This page is intended to collect related pages with development notes, ideas and discussion for individual profile development wile not "polluting" the actual Profile installation pages being developed on http://profiles.tiki.org

Developed Profiles

alias

profiles | profile | Profile Manager | Profile Ideas