Category: Usability

For example I have specified a prefix for all of my pages so I can have structures like
STR1_pageName alias pageName
-STR1_Another alias Another
STR2_pageName alias pageName
-STR2_Another alias Another

The issue comes when I want to have consistent naming for my left navigation and on breadcrumbs module. Structures are displayed correctly on the left navigation every single item has that alias. But on the breadcrumbs module the current page you are on is displayed by pages realname. For example pageName >> STR1_Another
I've received complaints from clients that this behaviour is confusing , and I've yet to find the solution to this issue. This may somewhat be related to ((https://dev.tiki.org/item4891|this)) issue. If someone has ideas how to overcome this issue I could try to fix it.

Clicking on the module controls (up, down, across, remove) does nothing. Also (the easy to fix part), the module flipping icon overlaps the right-hand end of the module control icon.

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The module freetags_morelikethis shows links a user has no permission to view.

I have to introduce a knowledge management system in our company and am convinced that TikiWiki is the solution to go.

The problem is:
- lots of data is classified (categorized)
- Tags are required to build a network of the knowledge
- the users will not accept a system that leads often to "permission denied"

Without this module being WYSIWYCA I cannot suggest TikiWiki to the management.

I want to list tracker items in a module by when they where last modified/updated. Searching the "All Modules" section reveals no such module even though it is documented on doc.tiki.org:
https://doc.tiki.org/Module-last_tracker_items

This may be similar to:
https://dev.tiki.org/item8005-Trackers-tracker-list-view-show-the-last-time-an-item-was-saved-and-not-last-time-an-item-the-data-was-modified
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there seems to be a bug around module last_tracker_items , here in dev.tw.o
To reproduce: submit a bug report through:
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Report+a+Bug

once submitted, you are redirected to:
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/your+wish+has+been+cast

but there is no item shown in the box
^ __Last Items__
^

The item, however, has been successfully created at the tracker.

I have set feature_comment_moderation=y, so new comments are invisible until approval, but they are shown as new comments on the since_last_visit_new module. So if user clicks on this link they come to the page where the comment was made (currently only tested with blog comment, but should be the same with other comments), and don't see this new comment.
I've no idea if this also affects coming version 4, only working with v3.2

On https://themes.tiki.org/Happy+Scroll, a code plugin is being used to show the source code of a wiki page that contains some module plugins, like this:

{CODE()}
{module module="menupage" pagemenu="Homepage_Section1" nobox="y"}
{CODE}.

But even though this is just example code and not really a functioning plugin, email notifications to approve the plugin are being sent. Here's the content of the email:

~pp~
Plugin module is pending approval on No title specified.

See all the pending plugins in the plugin approval page.

Plugin arguments:
* module: menupage
* pagemenu: Homepage_Section1
* nobox: y
~/pp~

Plugin syntax in a code example (inside the code plugin, etc.) should be recognized as not functional plugins requiring approval.

Sometimes I am really at a loss when I want to translate Tiki Wiki, because I really do not understand the English original. For instance, there is a module "user list". The module itself is plain and straightforward, and does what the name implies, but as the saying goes "the devil is in the details.". There is a parameter under the tab "module" named "included groups". Shouldn't be that hard to guess what it could do. But what is the user supposed to fill in? The explanation is this:

::"Show only the users of the group group and of a group including group."::

Ahem? What was the artists intention with this sentence? :-)

You'll find it on line 81 of /modules/mod-func-users_list.php.

Using 1.10cvs from last week of october'07

module=>last_tracker_items filtered to show only status=>o shows opc

See this page:
http://www.moviments.net/intercanvisarxius/tiki-index.php?page=Benvinguda

which has this call to module under "Demandes" column:
{CODE(wrap=>y)}
{MODULE(module=>last_tracker_items,trackerId=>3,name=>Títol,status=>o,decorations=>n,flip=>n)}{MODULE}
{CODE}

Please note that the items "cadira" (status pending), and "compartir vehicle" (status closed) are still shown at the module output, and they shouldn't.

Link to see the tracker items through tracker feature:
[http://www.moviments.net/intercanvisarxius/tiki-view_tracker.php?trackerId=3&sort_mode=lastModif_desc&status=opc]

The since last visit new module displays the first line of a comment but it failed to display relevant information when the plugin Quote or an emoji is used. (may be valid for any plugin).

See at dev.t.o
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Tiki 1.9.8 ships with 94 modules. (excellent)


Need a "module manager"

Module should come with a screenshot or preview.

A page listing all modules with descriptions and parameters- grouped by feature.


currently, the "user modules" and "assigned modules" titles are very non-intuitive. Should say "custom modules" and "active modules"




However, all modules are listed at all times. Module listing should check for features which are activated. It would be easier on new Tiki admins. For example, if articles are deactivated, don't show me last_articles in tiki-admin_modules.php



Admin modules does not display titles of available modules or provide easy method for selecting unused modules, such as with a listbox. The missing information is not available unless a Tiki admin has system admin permissions.



Also, all possible parameters for the current module should be listed (or picked from a drop-down)
See:
[http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Module]



Related:
Plugins admin interface
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=502

When I click on "Monitor this Tracker" It doesn't appear in the "My watches" section. It would be very nice to have a list of monitored trackers there as it would be quicker to verify. I would actually like to have the option of only seeing my trackers in the "My watches" section without receiving any emails when a change occurs.

Thanks to all volunteers on this !

Reproduce:
- Set some filter and sort order
- Click on an item to view it
- Click on "Monitor"
- Click on "back items list"

- see that the sort etc. is lost

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Issue was described here:
[http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=31233&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&forumId=4]

When you insert text like:

"You should call ~np~-+intValue()+-~/np~ in ...." then that comes out as:
"You should callintValue() in ...." with "intValue()" monospaced. Note the missing space.

This is caused by the regular expression used to replace the Wiki Syntax with HTML.

The bug is in tikilib.php, line 6467.
It reads:

// Replace monospaced text
$line = preg_replace("/(^|\s)-\+(.*?)\+-/", "< code >$2< /code >", $line);

The first group captures the whitespace. But only the second capturing group is saved.

When you get a display of all of the items in a category, the list is chopped into multiple pages, and the list is unordered.

I got this on October 25th 2006:

Warning: mysql error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in query:

select count(*) from `tiki_banners` where `wed` = ? and `hourFrom`<=?
and `hourTo`>=? and
( ((`useDates` = ?) and (`fromDate`<=? and `toDate`>=?)) or
(`useDates` = ?) ) and
`impressions`<`maxImpressions` and `zone`=?

in lib/tikidblib.php on line 134


How could we show a more meaningful error message?


---

mysql tables sometimes crash.

When they do, the error message is cryptic, at best.

An average Tiki admin won't know what the problem is and could think it's Tiki's fault.


A graceful error message would inform the admin that:

"There are problems with the following tables: ". Please repair (link to how to repair)

Especially the tiki_sessions, which shuts down the site completely...

Some others are not so bad. Just a path disclosure.
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
Warning: mysql error: Can't open file: 'tiki_images.MYI' (errno: 145) in query: select count(*) from `tiki_images` where `galleryId`=? in lib/tikidblib.php on line 134
{CODE}
---

Another error to watch for:
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
Unable to connect to the database !
User droit_tiki has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
{CODE}
---
Maybe Tiki admin email should be in db/local.php? So the system could send email alerts when DB can't connect.

Part of IRC-Log from 20050709:

[18:48:51] luci amette: imho the quickest fix for the Admin menu would be: 1. rename "Admin home" to "Admin Sections"
[18:49:40] luci amette: 2. clicking Admin folder would bring you list with the same entries like when you expand the folder
[18:50:53] luci 3. rename "Admin mods" entry to "Mods Admin" to prevent listing it as first entry since the menu is alphabetically sorted
[18:50:57] amette luci : Yup, that sounds really clean - Admin Home should be moved to the top of the submenu then though
[18:51:08] luci sure
[18:51:36] amette Ah, just wanted to ask - yeah, alphabetical sort is bad here - I just looked at my menu and it took some time to find "Verwaltung Hauptseite" <- very much at the bottom
[18:52:12] luci "Admin Sections" sounds logical to me because we use "Sections" in title bar there already anyway
[18:52:41] luci amette: good point, that'Ä‘ why i fixed my language.php entry to "Administrace"
[18:55:06] luci ok, we can consider removing that sorting stuff
[18:55:42] amette What would be a good solution imho - It gives you e.g. the option to say "The third entry in Admin menu"
[18:55:52] luci maybe only the module one
[18:55:56] amette And you can sort options by importance!
[18:56:14] amette And I'm often confused, since my admin-account uses English and amette-account uses german
[18:56:20] luci amette: not that easy, some appear depending on fetures enabled

From here on, was discussed, that Admin Items could/should be hidden, when the corresponding feature is not activated. I'm not too sure about that now - because like that you loose the ability to customize a feature and then afterwards activate/release it.

Typically, mouseover is to show more text over a small snippet. To save screen real estate.

So the data in the mouseover will typically be much large than the text. Plus, I may want wiki syntax parsing in the mouse over part.

It is now:
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
{MOUSEOVER(text=text that goes to mouseover)}
snippet that is moused-over
{MOUSEOVER}
{CODE}

It should be :
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
{MOUSEOVER(label=snippet that is moused-over)}
text that goes to mouseover
{MOUSEOVER}
{CODE}


Plus, this is a very cool plugin. It should be in main code base, like the THUMB plugin.

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Plugin Mouseover in 3.0 now uses label= in the options to specify rollover text (Create a mouseover feature on some text). Text works fine but in previous versions you could use an image instead of text. Now the image displays (if you use "{img src=...}", "<img src=...>" does not work even if you have "allow html"), but no roll over text is displayed when you mouseover the image.

Note: The mouseover plugin only appears to work only if MooTools UI Enhancements is selected. Maybe this needs to be added to the Mouseover plugin documentation.

RIght now, it appears that you can only move entire threads. This doesn't allow you to move a single post that's attached to a thread, even though just the one post needs to be relocated, usually to it's own thread.

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Moving +10 (default number) files to new file gal fails (only first 10 moved)
To reproduce:
* log in as admin
* Create two file gals (A and B)
* Upload 15 files to file gal A.
* Ensure that you have by default 10 files shown per file gallery (as a setting in the administration of the file galleries)
* List the file gallery, and Change the view to show 15 files instead of 10.
* click on all check the boxes of the 15 files
* select move files to a new file gallery
__only 10 files are shown and selected at this point __
If you keep going (select destination file gallery to move the files to), you'll see that only the first 10 files are moved, and not the 15 files that you had initially selected.

Using Tiki 3.1.

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Hi,

I just used the feature __Change all to File__ in __Manage Attachment__ page (wikiatt) and I have lost all the link in wiki pages to the attachments.


in the root directory of tikiwiki have appeared all the file attachment in this format __fad8af90189c10a80f8712263d74fa50__

In __Manage Attachment__ I click the Change buttom to come back to db storege without success


I am confused and thinking in restoring tiki_wiki_attachments table.


any suggestions

thank in advance

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I just played around with recurring events in calendar. Added a weekly event in the group calendar, and after saving it, reopend the first recurring event. On the top is the dropdown list with all available calendars and I choosed the public calendar from this list.
This produces a move of the event from the group to the public calendar; I think, the user should be ask here, if he wants to move the event or have just a copy. This affects also non-recurring events.
Specially for recurring events there should also be asked, if just this event should be moved/copied or also all recurring events. At the bottom of the page is a radio button for this purpose, but its value is ignored in this case.

I don't know if this is possible, but it would be nice if someone with skills would make some thoughts about it.

The theme using mozilla.css places the full screen icon mostly behind the right-side modules unless the Top Bar is enabled.

Allow to override global setting to create toc in a specific page through PluginPdfPage
Otherwise, you get 2 table of contents in a wiki page ifyou have that parameter set globally in print control panel, and you also have toc in a long wiki page in production.

Example (where you can't override that setting):
http://seeds4c.org/Ubuntu+16.04+LTS+for+Human+Beans