Category: Usability

If I add a rating to a new tracker, the rating is not saved.

Also the rating value star has an opaque white background.

These occur on dev.tiki.org presently.

~~#F00:Update:~~ Still not working on dev.tiki.org revision 48335. {sign user="Bsfez" datetime="2013-11-05T07:14:49+00:00"}

The rating gets saved now but is not displaying. {sign user="pascalstjean" datetime="2013-11-24T00:42:50+00:00"}

~~#F00:Update : ~~ I retested on the 28/11/13. {sign user="Bsfez" datetime="2013-11-28T13:22:50+00:00"}
Not logged i saw that they were 3 votes but could see star on or off;
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Once logged i voted and the score was reseted to 0;
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This worked well in Tiki9., and it's still borken as of r49090 (December 15th). {sign user="xavi" datetime="2013-12-15T10:27:49+00:00"}
If Rating with "Stars (system)" is supposed to be deprecated, could someone please help to switch the rating system in the dev.t.o Bug Tracker ([tracker5]) so that it can use whatever new rating system is not "deprecated"?
This way, since the new [http://doc.tiki.org/Rating%20Tracker%20Field|Rating field is not documented] as of Dec 14th 2013, we could see it here at least as a working example.{sign user="xavi" datetime="2013-12-15T10:39:46+00:00"}
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Ok, added the new Rating system myself to the Bug Tracker (new field 152: "New Rating"). And it works out of the box. Good job whoever coded the new feature. {sign user="xavi" datetime="2013-12-15T10:45:10+00:00"}

I'm testing a tiki replacement for our old CMS Made Simple CMS. I'm using the Fivealive Theme and I've set read permissions for anonymous visitors to view newsletter archives though they have to subscribe. In that window to subscribe there's a CaptCha code but there isn't a dialogue box for entering an email address to subscribe. However, when I enter the code, I get the following response:

"Newsletters Help

Thanks for your subscription. You will receive an email soon to confirm your subscription. No newsletters will be sent to you until the subscription is confirmed."

Obviously, that can't happen without having an email address to send the confirmation to.

I've tested this in Konqueror, Chromium and Firefox in an Ubuntu environment; Chrome, IE9 & Firefox in Win 7 Ultimate environment; and Firefox and IE8 in an XP Pro environment. All with the same interface results.

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When a registered user tries to edit an existing calendar event, the Edit/Delete page shows up but there is no description that displays on that page nor is there an edit interface where the event can be edited.

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The login window in Tiki7, using the Fivealive Theme, and when using the "Register" and "I forgot my password" features, those two link options are too close together unlike in Tiki 6.x.

In v6 those options were horizontally side-by-side. In v7 they are stacked vertically. When pointing directly on the text for "Register" the option "I forgot my password" is selected. To select the Register option, you have to move the pointer above the "Register" option to activate that page.

This happens regardless of OS or browser as I've tried it in XP Pro (32bit) using Firefox 5, Win7 Ultimate (on a 64 bit virtual machine), using Chrome and Firefox5 and Ubuntu 10.4 (32bit), using Firefox 5, Konqueror and Chromium.

Though I've been able to figure out where to hover the pointer to make the appropriate selection, my site visitors aren't likely to figure that out and leave the site out of frustration.

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Hi,

After display of a filtered list :

Various erratics behavior with the "sort" command by clicking a column of the header :

1- on "date" no effect or the list is cleared (after a crash of SQL request : before we had the crash, now it is handled but simply clears the list)

2- on "version" no effect at all.

Others not checked again (had been two years ago), who will repair can checked each column sort behavior...

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I have a group which does not have permissions to admin content templates in their category or the global permissions (the only permissions applying to the group) yet the group is still able to admin content templates.

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1. The "Leave Page"-Confirmation Box does not show up in TW7.

2. Another problem is that the onchange event is not fired when I leave the page with any browser button, e.g. back, F5, etc.

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Object permissions do not actually apply to individual files in a filegal. Despite this, we have UI to change said permissions. Trying to apply perms on a file affects the perms on the parent filegal. Very confusing and frustrating usability bug.

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On the Manual database installation docs:
http://doc.tiki.org/Manual+Installation#Rename__htaccess_for_clean_URLs_optional_

Instruction 1.4 says
1.4. Rename _htaccess for clean URLs (optional)

You can rename _htaccess to .htaccess
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BUT in the files there is only htaccess.sh

SO, is this the same file as _htaccess?
Really want to change the name of htaccess.sh to .htaccess.sh?

Low priority since this is an Alternative. But it does prevent manual installations
from having clean URLs

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Some users of an installation of Tiki 7.1 report they're not warned about shoutbox messages being too long, thus their messages are simply cut off rather than they're warned.

This was particularly reported for Firefox 6.0.2 on Windows XP Pro.

Others observe the warning is properly displayed with Seamonkey, Epiphany, or Firefox on Fedora 14 Linux with the GNOME Desktop V2.

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Whenever we select »Rating (descending)« for the parameter »Default sorting of topics« (I hope this is close enough to the english i18n, because we actually make use of the german i18n of Tiki) in a forum's settings (second to last parameter in the settings), and try to view the respective forum, we are presented a page with the error message:
* »[[Titlebar:] System Error
+
+ [[Body:] Things to check:
+
+ 1. Did you complete the Tiki Installer?
+ 2. Is your database corrupt? Please see how to repair your database
+ 3. Are your database credentials accurate? (username, database name, etc in db/local.php)«
As long as we stick to »Newest Postings«, we can use the respective forum as usual. Also, the ratings of topics are displayed in the topics list with no problem.

This issue may possibly be related to the following bug reports:
* https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?trackerId=5&itemId=3066
* https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?trackerId=5&itemId=3667
* https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?trackerId=5&itemId=2686
* https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?trackerId=5&itemId=2695

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Can you please retest in currently supported Tiki versions (e.g. Tiki12, ...)? Thanks in advanced {sign user="xavi" datetime="2014-02-07T09:48:35+00:00"}

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3D is not working properly at Safari 4.0.3 at Mac OS 10.5.8. I see the java cup inside the window. Then the java star and then nothing else the window becomes white. No image at all.

When you switch the tiki admin ui to the unified admin backend, then some options in 3rd level are not shown at all (they lokk like back over black font color).

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Same UI in Tiki25 display a different color so that they can be seen.

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(btw, nice option offered to new admins by default in the standard UI in hteir brand new tiki!)

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I created a test newsletter on a new tiki 4.x (using recent svn, similar to tiki4rc1)

* Switched editor to wysiwyg
* copied some content from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich (from the title "Paul R. Ehrlich" until the title "other activites" (so that, it's including also a few images available on the internet, in case it matters)
* cliked on the switch editor button (to go back to a normal editor showing wiki syntax)
* a blank page is produced, after 10-15 seconds.

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Using Tiki 7.2, we encounter the following issue with module semantic_links:

We've defined the abbrev. »wp« for links to Wikipedia articles, such that ~np~((wp:Jon_Doe|Jon Doe))~/np~ expands to a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Doe .

We've also defined a semantic link type »wp« to mark links to Wikipedia articles, and want to use the notation
* ~np~(wp(wp:Jon_Doe|Jon Doe))~/np~

This works well for the actual wiki page, and the abbreviation is properly expanded into a link to the WP article.

However, in the module semantic_links, the link text is displayed as
* »wp:Jon_Doe«
and the URL of the link is
* »oursite.com/wp:Jon_Doe«.

Can this be fixed such that the module uses the same link text as the
respective wiki page?

(The Wikipedia link type is only an example, but note that it's reasonable for a wiki page to have several links to Wikipedia articles using the wp: abbrev., but still only one of those of type wp(, thereby indicating that the external Wikipedia article and the local wiki page are about the same subject.)

On the Tiki-devel mailing list (Oct 2nd 2011), Nelson Ko mentioned that

»I think there is a ›hackish‹ way to get this to happen.

In templates/modules/mod-semantic_links.tpl, you will see where the
link is generated:

~np~<a href="{$msl_url|escape}">{$msl_item|escape}</a>~/np~

Replace this with:

~np~{wiki}(({$msl_url})){/wiki}~/np~

I didn't test it but it should work if you have sefurl on, since with
sefurl on the value of msl_url should be simply wp:Jon_Doe«,

but the hackish way didn't hack. =;-)

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When configuring a banner, it is possible to set a to- and from-time when the banner can be displayed. Setting and saving these times work OK.
The times are stored as specified (assumed local time for server)

However, when the settings are reloaded/reviewed, the times seems to auto-adjust the times, based on an assumption that the times are stored in UTC.
I am in the GMT+2 timezone, thus both times are incremented by 2 hours when they are reloaded.

Unless this error is detected and manually corrected before re-saving, the time settings will be altered. This will occur every time.

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I upgraded my Tiki from 4 to 8. Perhaps it was premature to upgrade a busy Tiki with many users to Tiki8. Anyway, I found a few issues. I am not sure if they would be characterised as bugs, or just stuff that has not yet been implmented. Here are the issues:

(1) The login prompt kept floating around the screen, appearing and disappearing in random places at random times, so I went to Admin-Modules to try to fix it.

(2) The next issue, is that in Admin-Modules, the tabs do not work. Clicking on a tab does nothing. Fortunately, I can proceed by clicking on the "No-tabs" button. Good idea that.

(3) Editing the login module didnt seem to help. So I came up with a cunning plan: Delete the module and then add it back in again. In hindsight, that was a pretty risky thing to do in beta software.

(4) I deleted the login module, but now I cannot add it back in! According to the instruction text, new modules can be dragged from the "All Modules" tab. But this either doesnt work or has not yet been implemented.

My Tiki is at http://lockbox.seanbdurkin.id.au

~pp~
[19:57:51] <ReWoP> when i type tiki-index.php?page="some page name" there should be a error msg that would say "page does not exist, want to go back or grate page" now there is the browser error "The page cannot be found
[19:58:26] <sylvieg> did you type the url with the "
[19:58:37] <ReWoP> *(not "grate page" but "create page")
[19:58:42] <ReWoP> nop
[19:59:32] <ReWoP> i tryed to erase DB and re-intall tiki and nothing....
[20:00:14] <sylvieg> what url did it display at the error
[20:00:46] <ReWoP> u coul try it its online -> http://dme.uma.pt/jcardoso/Research/Projects/seed/tiki-index.php?page=fgbn
[20:02:35] <sylvieg> mdavey around?
[20:03:24] <sylvieg> I don't know why it is done like this but when there is an error the header sent is HTTP/1.0 404 Not FOund with the clssic tiki page
[20:03:49] <sylvieg> I suppose your browser catches the 404 and yop
[20:04:14] <sylvieg> better to ask mdavey ... I suppose it is himl that added that why this line is here
[20:04:40] <sylvieg> you can always try to delete the liens in tiki-index.php
[20:05:02] <ReWoP> could it be permitions on the folder ??
[20:05:26] <ReWoP> i gave the web server all perms...
[20:05:27] <sylvieg> I don't think so
[20:06:30] <ReWoP> ...
[20:06:37] <ReWoP> but i could be a server problem..
[20:07:15] <ReWoP> i tryed with polaris version and was woking
[20:07:47] <ReWoP> then i have a DB problem and re-intalled it and this error occured..
[20:08:05] <sylvieg> yes it is a conflict between server/ and tiki
[20:08:30] <ReWoP> now was trying it with -Sirius- version and not workig 2.
[20:08:50] <ReWoP> the server is nt2003 server
[20:09:38] <sylvieg> there is 2 lines I don't understrand in tiki-index.php (header("...404...") I am pretty sure there are the guilty ones
[20:09:48] <ReWoP> i thing that there is error only on this part, because i can create/edit modules, menus pages premitions...
[20:10:05] <ReWoP> mabe
[20:11:01] <ReWoP> but dosnt answer why worked on my 1st polaris version, and dind on my 2nd and on 1st Sirius.....
[20:11:14] <ReWoP> dont thing its code problem...
[20:11:38] <ReWoP> if it was mabe it wold be random error
[20:11:53] <ReWoP> after all it already worked once...
[20:11:59] <red_adair> nt2003 ? what's that ?
[20:12:20] <ReWoP> windows 2003 server :p
[20:12:21] <sylvieg> you can try to put into comment the 2 line header"... 404..) in tiki-index.php

Additional information:
[18:56:51] <ReWoP> i wanted to add that there is other tiki installed on the same server but it works !
~/pp~

Attachements (on file tree, not db) are not uploaded as expected to forum post with attached file + preview button.

Perms seems to be ok (full admin user). Directory to upload forums chmoded to 777 and no change.

Similar dirs for image gals, file gals, etc. work fine.

Working with 1.9.2 on linux.

! Update to below, see attached screenshot. Just discovered a pop-up application for pasting text. Very weird to see after decades of pasting text the old fashioned way ;-)

!!WYSIWYG Editor Tiki 5 RC-1
fresh from svn

__Cannot paste text into editor __
*anything pasted just disappears
*tried wiki and blog post
*tried 5 Alive and The News themes
*tried Mac Safari and Chrome


__Cannot paste text__
TW 4.1: Edit a wiki page with WYSIWYG editor:

#Can type & use formatting tools.
#Cannot paste text. When Text is pasted, the desired text appears very briefly, sort of flashes on the screen, then disappears. Saving at this point saves any typed or formatting changes, but the pasted text does not appear.
#Can switch to Wiki Editor, paste text, switch back to WYSIWYG and format it from there.

Using Tiki 5.0: anonymous shouldn't see "watch" icons when browsing category tree.
And they can.
Reproduced here, for instance:
http://intercanvis.net/tiki-browse_categories.php

We recently upgraded precarios.org site from 3.6 to 5.0 (and migrated to a new server; dns propagating right now).

Since then, when you post a message in a forum that you are watching, you don't get a copy of your own email, but only copies of emails sent by others.

This is expected to allow users to follow a full thread in the email program.

For wiki page changes, you get also notification of your own changes.

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When you don't want an autoconnect by the cookie, (this for example because you are testing the product with various usernames which correspond to various usersgroups), then you let Firefox to fill automatically the password.

When the password is sent by Firefox this closes the popup-form. You must re-open it to validate.

If you are experienced you are able to understand what appends, but I receiced mail from users saying I am unable to login.

Further, sometimes the login_scr is displayed, and people think that they must give their username and their e-mail and the password. This because of the template.
In fact it is either the username or the e-mail address.

I look the form into the XXX.tpl.php without finding anything to explain the phenomenon.

Hello,

This succeeds always :

I you chosse the option survey for wiki page on edition you yet the error :

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Mail_Protocol_Exception' with message 'Connection timed out' in /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/core/lib/Zend/Mail/Protocol/Abstract.php:254 Stack trace: #0 /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/core/lib/Zend/Mail/Protocol/Smtp.php(167): Zend_Mail_Protocol_Abstract->_connect('tcp://smtp.treb...') #1 /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/core/lib/Zend/Mail/Transport/Smtp.php(199): Zend_Mail_Protocol_Smtp->connect() #2 /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/core/lib/Zend/Mail/Transport/Abstract.php(348): Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp->_sendMail() #3 /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/core/lib/Zend/Mail.php(1178): Zend_Mail_Transport_Abstract->send(Object(Zend_Mail)) #4 /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/mail/maillib.php(111): Zend_Mail->send() #5 /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/notifications/notificationemaillib.php(294): tiki_send_admin_mail('Bty-Admtwkn1@tr...', 'admin', '<!-- TPL: mail/...', '<!-- TPL: mail/...') #6 /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/tikilib.php(7532): sendWik in /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik153/lib/core/lib/Zend/Mail/Protocol/Abstract.php on line 254

You can't use the function.

Trebly - B01027-02

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images in trackers are not multitiki aware (they are all saved in img/trackers instead in the img/trackers/site1.org , etc. as for images in img/wiki_up/site1.org etc