Category: Usability

We have plenty of profiles ready for new users to learn new skills within Tiki, but we fail in the way we allow filtering them for a new tiki admin: it should be easier and more visual, imho.

We should add some sort of ((Grid)) or masonry display (like flash cards) plus some fast filtering based on tags that the user adds. I wonder if the isotope filtering from masonry could be hacked to allow filtering by profile tags. See:
https://isotope.metafizzy.co/
(from the same author of https://masonry.desandro.com/ )


See also the related feature request:
https://dev.tiki.org/item6432 - "Allow searching by categories and TAGS through the Profiles Control Panel in Tiki"

Admin -> General -> Navigation

Thank you @AlferNL on Telegram

If someone attempts to install Tiki 23 with PHP 8.1, it should warn in the installer.
https://t.me/TikiWikiCMSGroupware/124

If someone attempts to install Tiki 23 when missing intl, it should off a nicer error message.
https://t.me/TikiWikiCMSGroupware/141

I've been thinking for ages that this kind of option is REALLY needed, and I thought it should not be much coding effort:

Automonitoring each own's posts, through either:
# Add a select box to monitor each own's forum post or tracker submission at post time, in a "per forum post or tracker item insertion" basis, or
# with a user preference for all forums, or all trackers, blogs, etc..
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Still needed...

add antibot captcha for anons to newsletters, calendars and tracker item comments

There is a parameter "Update Empty" in the tracker field type.
I don’t see any documentation about it but it is supposed to add auto-increment numbers to items in this tracker that don't have one yet.

I tried it on Tiki18 it didn’t filled the empty fields.

After testing it it seems a auto-increment number is added to empty fields if "itemId" is not the parameter selected. Would be nice to fill in this case too and not to have the admin to open and save each item.

{CODE()}
Update Empty
Add auto-increment numbers to items in this tracker that don't have one one. ********** N.B. This modifies data and there is no undo **********
{CODE}

While adding field Group as a group selector got following error (Tried again for a text field & same error):

Warning: mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Group TEXT' at line 1 in query:

alter table tiki_trk_Groups add column Group TEXT

in /home/tikivam/public_html/cms/lib/tikidblib.php on line 134

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/tikivam/public_html/cms/lib/tikidblib.php on line 145
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Then when list tracker items:
Notice: Undefined index: Group in /home/tikivam/public_html/cms/lib/trackers/trkWithMirrorTablesLib.php on line 594

for each item.
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Then when edit item:
Warning: mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Group='yrc94' where `itemId`='18'' at line 1 in query:

update tiki_trk_Groups set Group=? where `itemId`=?

in /home/tikivam/public_html/cms/lib/tikidblib.php on line 134
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Checking DB: Group column was not created in table.

This is from a test site http://tiki.vamason.org while trying to recreate trackers as mirrors from http://cms.vamason.org. I installed lastbranch1.9 on 8/3 and copied the DB & ran 1.8-1.9 upgrade. Deleted old trackers, changed Tracker feature to use mirror tables. Emptied tracker tables using SQLyog before starting. Loaded data from CVS using SQLyog.

Make it possible to find users by their real name on add_friend (in social service controller)

The tiki-admin_actionlog.php page does not have a help icon that links to docs.

Add ip to syslog and/or action log, so that when anons (at least) are allowed to add content and it's spam (robots seem to be able to post with our current antibot captcha), there is way to identify the ip of the spammer.

So far, antibot captcha is added (in trunk, at least) to:
* wiki edit
* wiki page comments
* forum posts
* tracker item comments
* freetags
* calendar items
* newsletter subscription

The action of adding content on those features should be logged in syslog and/or action log and IP recorded.

We need to provide natural sorting of the -+Priority+- field in the bug tracker at dev.t.o
Example: click at sort bugs in the wishlist page by Priority in descending order:
https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-index.php?session_filters=y&tr_sort_mode1=f_138_desc&page=Wishlist

First, items with priority 90 are shown.

After that, items with priority 9 are shown. However, between 9 and 90 there are lots of priorities that should be shown before 9 is shown, if they were understood as numbers, not as characters.

See:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.natsort.php

To help solve the problem of tall responsive wide tables or other content not being understood to be scrollable, one solution is to add a second scrollbar at the top of the scrollable area. A script to do this is at [https://github.com/avianey/jqDoubleScroll].

All stats related features/settings/options should be next to one another.

tiki-admin.php?page=features
Stats
Referer Stats

tiki-admin.php?page=general
Count admin pageviews:

Add tablesorter UI to Payments list for easier filtering of real data when many payments done.

Currently there is even no pagination at all. So when many records are there, it's not easy to find who payed whet, when, by whom, etc.

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We have a dbdump already with a few data on it (of real small transaction with paypal), that we could share with a dev willing to implement this feature, in case this helps the development with fake-ish but real transaction data from paypal in production, not sandbox.
At: http://15x.notre.website

Please, ask me, for instance, and I'll fetch a db dump for you with admin pw reset for you.

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This is annoying because you have to go via the admin structure instead of the simple add interface.

Textarea in Trackers checks for quicktags from the "tracker"-category - those are not yet in the db.

I know that calendars can be watched by users through links like:

tiki-calendar.php?watch_event=calendar_changed&watch_action=add

But this link doesn't work like this other one:
http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-user_watches.php?event=article_submitted&add=Add

I mean, Anonymous users clicking on the first link (calendar watch event, as it is right now), would not be offered any message to login or register first.
With the second link (watch article), the user will be shown the login box to login first, before the action can be executed.

This is to make more easy for new users to know that they can subscribe by email to get info from calendars if they register to that tiki site.

If you follow a notification link to comment (e.g. on a tracker item) and you then reply or add a new one the #threadId=42 value stays on the url and you get scrolled to the initial comment again, not the one you just added (does that make sense?)

I created a new pref called feature_canonical_domain (see commit: [http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/52757] ) just like explained here: [https://dev.tiki.org/Creating+New+Preferences]
But it does not show on preferences search.
Neither on my dev site, nor in the community tiki.org
Yet it can be seen and configured in admin → sefulr

To reproduce: log in tiki.org → admin → search "canonical"
The old feature_canonical_url appears (correct)
The new feature_canonical_domain does not (why?)

This is not fixed with clear/caches
This is not fixed by reindexing since http://tiki.org/tiki-admin.php?page=search shows that "Your index was last fully rebuilt on Monday 13 October 2014 04:00:01 CEST." which is much after

So, there must be some missing step in [https://dev.tiki.org/Creating+New+Preferences]

While trying to set a template for use in a tracker, the custom display template setting functions but using a custom edit template causes an error message.
The error messages are different depending on if I am trying to use a template file or a wiki page template but result in non-functionality for that particular tracker.


Withdrawn due to lack of interest on the report.

In the wiki syntax the following code
{CODE()}
# Status on ((TikiFest Virtual 2021 Summer Workshops)) - May shift to longer second hour topic
# [https://tiki.org/forumthread77173-Translation-for-tiki-site-close-page-tiki-error_simple-php|Tiki simple-error (site closed)] translation dilemma
When closing a Tiki website we gave the option for the admin to edit the message. It sound like a good thing BUT on the other hand translation of the rest of the page may be impossible and if the admin of a french Tiki insert a french message the final screen for the end-user will look badly done. (half english and half french)
* Is it important to solve this
* Is it possible to avoid english/hardcoded strings (so the Admin wrote everything he want)
* ...
# Is there a delay between what we see at Gitlab and the reality see: https://tiki.org/forumthread77159-How-reliable-is-gitlab-informations
{CODE}

Will produce this (the not expected result):
# Status on ((TikiFest Virtual 2021 Summer Workshops)) - May shift to longer second hour topic
# [https://tiki.org/forumthread77173-Translation-for-tiki-site-close-page-tiki-error_simple-php|Tiki simple-error (site closed)] translation dilemma
When closing a Tiki website we gave the option for the admin to edit the message. It sound like a good thing BUT on the other hand translation of the rest of the page may be impossible and if the admin of a french Tiki insert a french message the final screen for the end-user will look badly done. (half english and half french)
* Is it important to solve this
* Is it possible to avoid english/hardcoded strings (so the Admin wrote everything he want)
* ...
# Is there a delay between what we see at Gitlab and the reality see: https://tiki.org/forumthread77159-How-reliable-is-gitlab-informations

This is bad as it is breaking the page format and the heading numbering system.
To prevent this I have to add indent for each block between a line feed (+) and so this code:

{CODE()}
# Status on ((TikiFest Virtual 2021 Summer Workshops)) - May shift to longer second hour topic
# [https://tiki.org/forumthread77173-Translation-for-tiki-site-close-page-tiki-error_simple-php|Tiki simple-error (site closed)] translation dilemma
+When closing a Tiki website we gave the option for the admin to edit the message. It sound like a good thing BUT on the other hand translation of the rest of the page may be impossible and if the admin of a french Tiki insert a french message the final screen for the end-user will look badly done. (half english and half french)
+* Is it important to solve this
+* Is it possible to avoid english/hardcoded strings (so the Admin wrote everything he want)
+* ...
# Is there a delay between what we see at Gitlab and the reality see: https://tiki.org/forumthread77159-How-reliable-is-gitlab-informations
{CODE}

Will produce this (the wanted result):

# Status on ((TikiFest Virtual 2021 Summer Workshops)) - May shift to longer second hour topic
# [https://tiki.org/forumthread77173-Translation-for-tiki-site-close-page-tiki-error_simple-php|Tiki simple-error (site closed)] translation dilemma
+When closing a Tiki website we gave the option for the admin to edit the message. It sound like a good thing BUT on the other hand translation of the rest of the page may be impossible and if the admin of a french Tiki insert a french message the final screen for the end-user will look badly done. (half english and half french)
+* Is it important to solve this
+* Is it possible to avoid english/hardcoded strings (so the Admin wrote everything he want)
+* ...
# Is there a delay between what we see at Gitlab and the reality see: https://tiki.org/forumthread77159-How-reliable-is-gitlab-informations
That is pretty dumb in 2021 and as long as I’m between 2 heading Tiki should understand it has to indent the text accordingly.

1- "Upload image for this post" is not offered at first post. Only after I save and come back to edit?

Html is offered:
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
<img src='tiki-view_blog_post_image.php?imgId=44' border='0' alt='image' />
{CODE}

It should be wiki syntax:
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
{img src=tiki-view_blog_post_image.php?imgId=44 }
{CODE}

Related: [tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=1492|It's too difficult to re-use image gallery images in wiki pages, trackers, etc]

{syntax type="tiki" editor="plain"}
With 3.1 I did add a poll,
did add options via "quick option" function.
After adding and viewing/editing the poll it had every option twice, for each option both with the same position number.

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If I create a new group in tiki-admingroups.php, and want to add a user, I must go to tiki-adminusers.php

I should be able to add users to groups from tiki-admingroups.php, with a drop-down (if < 500 users) or a search username box (if users > 500) , or something like this...

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?