Category: Content template

If Trackers had the "tracker template" feature, it would allow for better pre-made extended features for Tiki at install time.
In tw.o forums, some people requested like: address books (imagine with the same basic fields as Mozilla Thunderbird & Evolution, etc. address books, ... Export from you local program (through csv), and import to your address book in Tiki (through csv).

The same for "Offers & Demands (linked or linkable)", that many people/communities would like to use like "out of the box" feature. I do have that kind of trackers made (basic, but working for production already: http://valldelcorb.org/trackers - http://valldelcorb.org/Comparteix (1.9.x) or http://intercanvis.net (1.10.x) using tracker plugins in a general Wiki page).

Since duplicate tracker is already coded in 1.10, and templates concept already exists in Tiki, Tracker templates would be a nice MUST in the MID and LONG run.

Tracker templates should be selectable at install time (in the new installer devs. are thinking/designing -> ((Install)) ), or at a later stage through Mods, maybe?

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Since r19838, Admin templates uses the WYSIWYG editor even if WYSIWYG was not enabled. The root of this problem is usage of the Smarty wysiwyg variable, which is not always set since r9595.

Content templates very usefully allow complex/rich formats to be pre-established for Wiki pages etc - but if there are a number of users with full 'editor' permissions it would be very useful to be able to put individual Content templates under a 'change control' process where only one individual (and the admin) can change/update it, ===and=== to be able to segment the access to a large number of content templates by an individual Category.

Being able to 'lock' a template in the same way as a Wiki page etc is assumed to be a simple way of achieving the 'lock' request but there may be better ways of achieving the effect.

Adding a Category function may have some more 'interesting' consequences since some thought should be given as to whether the categorisation is inherited by the wiki page/newsletter or whether the template, whilst only being available to a user with the right category permissions, should then just be pasted into the edit screen and the resultant page categorised as required.

update June 2013 - still a very useful Feature Request !

It should be at the very least possible to add content templates where the cursor is, like ((quicktags)).

When using the checkbox option in TrackerList the actionUrl is stated as
$checkbox.action and not as the link you entered.

Using my version is 8.4 (MyISAM), installed via softaculous, when WYSIWYG is enabled the editor does not show up on the Admin>ContentTemplate page. I looked at the generated source code where the editor should appear and what it shows is this :
~lt~tr>
~lt~td/>

instead it should show:
~lt~tr>
~lt~td>
(code for WYSIWYG editor goes here)
~lt~/td>

Both features work fine independently, just not simultaneously.

Copied some suggestion I just throwed on irc..., after fighting each time on some of my production sites to manually send messages to many users which are kind of lost some times at the beggining of their participation in a tiki-site-powered community.

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(11:37:39) xavi: I was just wondering about a new and easy improvement of the registration process of new users to a community sit eusing tiki
(11:38:07) xavi: just through allowing an admin to add acustomized welcome message to new users successfully registered to the site...
(11:38:29) xavi: ... with the text and links he might need to tell to new users....
(11:38:52) xavi: ...in a similar way to what mailman does for the welcome message to new users...
(11:39:48) xavi: ...I imagine a simple text area, like site identity does, where the admin can write any simple text (with or without wiki markup? like the newsletter feature does/allows)...
(11:40:45) xavi: ...so that the admin can set that message easily (without manualy searching for the appropiate template to hack through ftp)...
(11:42:48) xavi: ..and the the new user, can review the infos and tips that he/she needs to know on that site: "now you can: # watch that forum where that important thing is discussed.... #join that newsletter/blog/articlefeature to be up to date about news from that community, #review and/or subscribe to that tracker..., ...
(11:45:22) xavi: oh well, I can't code php+mysql myself (yet, at least ;-) ), but I guess that this shouldn't be that difficult nor time consuming to an experienced coder, provided that that person agrees on that this feature is "low hanging fruit" to improve the experience of newcomers to a community, through improving the communication while the first steps of that person in the community site...
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This could also be important for ((Workspaces)), and ((Organic Groups)). So that, not just to register (join the registered group), but as a customized message per group, so that, when joining a new group (at registration time, or later on through the subscribe groups plugin), you get the specific message with hints, links and remindings of things adapted for that group.

a) I spent weeks testing these features one by one.

It will save time if all these features are enabled and complete with samples.

This is the approach used by Joomla and Mambo.

It also helps us learn faster.


b) The assist module is useful but asking users to read a tedious configuration as the first step will eat up too much time.

Site configuration or Look at Feel should be the first one.

It is also the most dangerous but essential.

c) Provide a clue, in the assist if possilbe, to replace a damaged header.tpl with a skeleton header.tpl

It is impossible to activate various Functions...

In the Administration Menu under "Editing and Plugins" it is impossible to activate functions like "google analytics" and lots more... everytime I want to save I get a "permission denied"
{CODE()}Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /content/tiki-admin.php on this server.{CODE}

The Module is unusable right at the moment...

I did:
- disable the searchengine friendly urls
- did a complete reinstall
- applied chmod 755 over everything

Nothing did work...

Content Templates are an easy and comfortable way to change the look and content of wiki pages. It would be nice to be able to define such a template as your default for wiki pages, instead of having to choose it every single time you create a new wiki page, or changing the template of wiki pages in general.