Category: Usability

Dear All

There is a problem with wiki staging and approval on Tiki 3.0 namely that practically it can not be switched off once it was turned on.

Description:

The issue is that if I switch the feature off than edit an approved page than upon save all content of a wiki page gets duplicated. If I save again, it duplicates again and there is no escape. ("Preview" shows ok but "minor edit" makes the mistake too).

The same thing happens if staging and approval is switched on with the following setting:

''__Force bounce of editing of approved pages to staging__'' is NOT marked (preference wikiapproval block editapproved disabled)

Workaround: if a page gets messed up as described above, switch on staging and approval again, enable ''preference wikiapproval block editapproved'', make an edit of the page, deleted the duplicated content, approve and the official page will be fine again

Some more notes: I was working as admin, the site was on TW2.4 before, it was upgraded with the official 3.0 release only, Staging and approval was switch on the first time, it was __not__ used with 2.4 version

Please resolve this if possible,
Many thanks,
Gezza

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Update:

actually it happens now also when we edit a staging page twice. If I edit once, than approve, all is fine. If I edit twice the staging copy content starts to get duplicated :(

See:
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As you can see in this comment's item, the discussions comes to a point it is hard to read and most of the screen space is wasted.

https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=7838&threadId=9696

We should add a new preferences so we can limit indentation on thread reply.
It should be optional
It should be have a threshold field (after 5 replies stop indenting)
It should be set "enable" by default (with 5 replies)
It is important to test with a setting of 2 (after the first post, all replies have the same single step indent)

This happens on comments under or added to another feature, not in forums.

When trying to configure the friendship network, Tiki behaves strange.
After activating the Custom Activities, it is no longer possible to access the details of the Friendship Network

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I noticed an embarrassing problem with the tiki version running on tiki.org
the problem is side of the javascript alert box that requires confirmation of the use of cookies...
normally when we click Ok, the prompt should disappear but I noticed it appears more than 6 times before leaving you alone which is a bit embarrassing.

For invalid Tiki URLs ending in .php (or .html, etc.), instead of a nice 404-type message, there is this: ~np~"No route found. Please see http://dev.tiki.org/url+Rewriting+Revamp"~/np~. This is ok for a dev site (looks like a message to a developer), but isn't appropriate for a production site. In Tiki 13, there is something a little familiar, though not very nice: "404 Not Found - nginx". Is there some way to have a nice, styled page, that looks like part of the site and not a server message?

Using the latest 12 SVN version, trying to translate a page results in the "compare page" shown below the editor.

The editor buttons are/can be hidden by the "compare page".

See show instance.

Here's a screencast
...I am unable to record a video. jcapture fails with an encoding error.
Tying an image
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From show instance
Lorem Ipsum shows a worse case. It becoms impossible to save the translation.
1) Go to Lorem Ipsum.no
2) Edit page
3) Click on outgoing translation
..leads to the "reference" covering the background. Since the action buttons have a lower z-order, it becomes impossible to save the translation.
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Administrating the structures is very uneasy on Tiki29.

Among the visible issues:
* The structure admin wrench is not accessible.
* All the sublevel are open on each load (loading or saving the page)
* The pagination tools are not displayed sometimes
* ...

See the video: {img fileId="3202" thumb="box"}

the structure will not be sorted correctly in a wiki page while it is sorted as it should be in the structure

i tried to change the pos row in the database directly, but that doesn't helped

after expecting the db for these items i think i might know where the problem is - it is sorted by the page_ref_id instead of pos field

example (where pos is the position in database and the should be sort order) :

|| Page Name | pos | page_ref_id | pos in wikipage
Concept | 1 | 49 | 2
Exhibition | 2 | 75 | 4
Facilities | 3 | 24 | 1
Portal | 4 | 89 | 6
Handbook | 5 | 68 | 4
Resources | 6 | 55 | 3 ||

as you can see it is sorted after the page_Ref_id instead of pos in a wikipage

edit: on the other hand in another tiki there is no such problem as described above

With version 21 the wiki pages which are part of a structure seem to be displayed as if the CSS isn't working. It looks like a very simple html page. At first I thought the bandwidth is so low so that the page is presented with the minimum information.

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When the system is set up to use staging & approval and the Structures are turned on, pages/topics created using the Add Page feature included with Structures get created with a staging name. The structure fails/disappears when the page is approved (fails in that the structure loses the staging name and does NOT substitute in the page without the staging name).

Subject field empty after a reply to a post...

e.g.
* a topic is posted "aaa"
* the subject for the reply to at the bottom is "Re: aaa"
* a reply is posted to the topic
* the subject for the reply to at the bottom is EMPTY, whilst it should be "Re: Re: aaa"
* click on the topic or post link once again, then the subject for the reply to at the bottom is "Re: Re: aaa"

Hello,

The default templates displays paneled hierarchical menus.

The second level must test is bottom position so that it will display a bottom arrow to scroll the options naturally hidden by the window inferior (here) limit.

For the moment the second level menu panel is truncated : this is a BUG.

So the user must understand or prepare by a general scroll (if possible) to allow a sufficient place to the menu to be displayed

trebly

Submit button is missing from a few modals because of this rule
{CODE()}.modal-body div.submit {
display: none; }
/* fix for lists with empty dl items, e.g. tracker items
* thanks hayksaakian on https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/4062
* to be removed when we update to bs 3.2
*/{CODE}

In tiki-base.css

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Hello,

I have changed my trackers options to Trackers mirror.

This needs to suppress old ones (just test). It as been immediate.

I tried a test, create a new tracker, define major parameters and I obtains the following error :

Fatal error: Call to a member function fetchRow() on a non-object in /homez.53/spacprot/www/teawik132/lib/core/lib/TikiDb.php on line 56.

__Do you know what can happen.__
I imagine that the $this->query(.... ) fails because of right on database. But as admin my user and passwords allows tables creation. I will try to test the same with simple test program.

I imagine (with no means to verify) that if this come from a lock of right of data base the error on the query should raise a PDO error.

Nota :
Because I still (after a lot of job)could not obtain an operational installation on Windows, I cannot debug myself or localize (using XDEBUG, PHPECLIPSE).
The problem is on an operational site running by a provider service (OVH - with php 5-2 mysql 5-4- etc...) but normally without access to debugging tools.

So I am preparing a computer running on windows for this (I have to implement installations of tikiwiki on Windows) and collaborate operationally to tikiwiki development.

Best regards

Suckerfish menu dropdown items flicker in IE6 (rapidly switch between being displayed and background showing), apparently due to a javascript conflict. This happens whether or not jquery (w/ or w/o superfish) is activated. This type of menu works fine in IE6 normally (such as at the Superfish demo site), so there seems to be a conflict with something in Tiki. A Google search turned up similar problems in Joomla and Drupal, and was caused there by some conflict with some the javascript used by some module or other. I tested CSS variations, to rule out the possibility of CSS being the cause - no change made a difference.

Assuming Tiki will move from php layers menus to suckerfish menus, and there will still be a significant number of IE6 users, this should be solved as soon as possible.

When using the Suggest an FAQ feature, Tiki allows a blank entry of both Question and Answer. This is incorrect. Althought Tiki should allow a blank __answer__, the __question__ field should be required.

It would also be nice to enable a CAPTCHA for anonymous editors.

nothing more to say...

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I cannot update the Option To Redirect. When I put the TikiWiki page to redirect to it never saves that page. It always sends me back to a list of the Surveys.

Example: http://foreclosurepedia.org/istar/tiki-index.php?page=Contractor+Database+Survey

Windows 8; Firefox, Google Chrome and IE

In order to get it translated, I enabled the survey feature. It's admin GUI is highly confusing and counter-intuitive. After enabling, you can enter the admin GUI and create a survey, so far absolutely intuitive. But then you are stuck. You have entered a name and a description, but no questions! They are simply no part of the process of creating a survey ?!

In order to create questions, you have to go to list surveys, and from the properties of the wrench icon you can go to questions, tiki-admin_survey_questions.php?surveyId=NN

In the upper left corner is a large button labelled "Add a new question", which is completely void of any function (!), because it only links to the very same page (tiki-admin_survey_questions.php).

Over the (now still empty) list of questions is a (compared to the large functionless button) rather unspectacular text written in blue "Add a New Question to this survey". This seems like the same function as "Add a new question", but it isn't at all:

This, and only this, will link to tiki-admin_survey_questions.php?surveyId=NN#contenttabs_adminsurveyquestions-2 and give the user the means to create a question.

Surveys can have more than one question, that is fine. But questions are per survey only, questions do not form a pool, i.e. it is impossible to create a question and use it in more than one survey. That is impractical.

Also, the questions property of the wrench always directs to the creation of new questions, and does not (at first) show the list of existing questions. They can be listed with questions tab, yes, but it's counterintuitive to always start at creation and not at the list of existing.

My setup: MacOSX 10.13.6, MAMP Pro using PHP 5.6.33 using trunk or 18.x.

{CODE()}Macintosh-2:trunk Bernard$ php doc/devtools/svnup.php

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ';' or '{' in /Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/lib/tikiaccesslib.php on line 1238

Call Stack:
0.0024 350864 1. {main}() /Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/doc/devtools/svnup.php:0
0.1037 509512 2. require_once('/Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/tiki-setup_base.php') /Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/doc/devtools/svnup.php:47
0.8336 11607456 3. TikiLib::lib() /Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/tiki-setup_base.php:249
0.8337 11607632 4. Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->get() /Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/lib/tikilib.php:68
0.8337 11607632 5. Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->doGet() /Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/vendor_bundled/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php:587
0.8337 11608024 6. Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder->createService() /Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/www/htdocs/trunk/vendor_bundled/vendor/symfony/dependency-injection/ContainerBuilder.php:633
{CODE}

It was working 3 weeks ago and it is still working on 18.x.

Note: When I try with PHP 7.2.7 svnup.php throw : mysql server not started (on trunk and 18x)

Installer allows to set language for the tiki site admin in the first screen of tiki-install.php. This used to work for years. I tested in 20.x and 21.x and it doesn't change lang of the interface. Tested with Catalan and Spanish, in case it matters. No change, installer continues in step 2 in English.

Currently what happens is when user clicks on a perpective link (tiki-switch_perspective.php?perspective=8), it will automatically change to http://example.com/tiki-index.php which is the same address for any perspectives by default... which can confuse user when they add the link as bookmark (favorites links) their browser will save the this link http://example.com/tiki-index.php and not http://example.com/tiki-switch_perspective.php?perspective=8

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Searching the content (try e.g., "social") FAILS with fatal error after fresh-install/index rebuild:
{CODE()}
System error.
The following error message was returned:

DOUBLE value is out of range in '(round((match `tiki-fresh`.`index_6a5a0961d11ac`.`contents` against ('social')),2) * 1)'
The query was:

SELECT *, ROUND(MATCH(`contents`) AGAINST ('social'),2) * 1 + ROUND(MATCH(`title`) AGAINST ('social'),2) * 2.5 AS `score` FROM `index_6a5a0961d11ac` WHERE 1=1 AND ((MATCH (`contents`) AGAINST ('social' IN BOOLEAN MODE) OR MATCH (`title`) AGAINST ('social' IN BOOLEAN MODE)) AND (`searchable` = 'y' AND `searchable` IS NOT NULL)) ORDER BY `score` DESC
The built query was likely:

SELECT *, ROUND(MATCH(`contents`) AGAINST ('social'),2) * 1 + ROUND(MATCH(`title`) AGAINST ('social'),2) * 2.5 AS `score` FROM `index_6a5a0961d11ac` WHERE 1=1 AND ((MATCH (`contents`) AGAINST ('social' IN BOOLEAN MODE) OR MATCH (`title`) AGAINST ('social' IN BOOLEAN MODE)) AND (`searchable` = 'y' AND `searchable` IS NOT NULL)) ORDER BY `score` DESC
{CODE}

_This happens only for the first initial search. After that first attempt it seems to work normally for any subsequent search._

Steps to reproduce:

# Run -+php console.php i:r+-
# Go to -+tiki-searchindex.php?filter~content=profile&sort_mode=score_ndesc+-

When you are on a page of a wiki structure, you can click on the print icon, but you will only print that single page.

The icon and option to "__print this page and all the subpages__" (= in the the sub-structure) right from there (without going through all the clicks at "Wiki > multiprint > select structure > print") would be very welcome, since the base feature to rpint the full structure exists.

From the home of the structure, it would print the full structure (as it can be done with one click from a structure within a Workspace through ((doc:AulaWiki)) mod, or through many clicks as usual, as explained above).

If the user is on a subpage of the structure, that button would print that page and all subpages from the same structure.

Does it make sense?