Category: Usability

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Two person need to work on a tracker entry. Some fields are only editable byan admin, the others can be handled by registered users. When I now add data in the defined tracker fields as an admin, everything is fine.

Now the registered user takes over the case, wants to update/change the fields he has to. So far everything looks fine, he only can edit the one he has access to but as soon as he wants to save it, the fields only editable by the admin suddenly disappear:

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Maybe it is on purpose designed like this, but then I just would not get the logic behind it.

There is a typo in /lib/prefs/short.php which makes displaying the help texts impossible, and it is carried on (through copy&paste by the dev).

Look at these code snippets:
{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
function prefs_short_list()
{
return [
'short_date_format' => [
'name' => tra('Short date format'),
'descriprion' => tra('Specify how Tiki displays the date (shorter version)'),
.....
'descriprion' => tra('Specify how Tiki displays the time (shorter version)'),
{CODE}

The error is in lines 13 and 23: "descprion" should read "description"... This results in help texts that contain a heading (contained in 'name'), but no text...

This affects ''all'' languages, including English...

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Currently in master, on Unified Admin Backend pages, modals are opening behind the top navbar. This can be seen at tiki-objectpermissions.php by clicking the "Assign" button. The modal has a z-index value of 1055 and the navbar's z-index value is 9999. Considering the default Bootstrap z-index values that range from 1000 to 1090 (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/layout/z-index/), and Tiki's global fixed-top navbar z-index of 1050, the UAB navbar's z-index does seem to be quite a bit out of line and should be made the same as the global navbars unless there's a reason for it to be higher.

Administration home does look really ugly with hidden disabled sections now

Because I keep finding bugs where translation is impossible due to missing tra(), tr() or tr in curly braces, I opened this new umbrella bug report.

Here I will add only newly found bugs, I will not integrate the already existing bug reports into this!

/lib/prefs/calendar.php has this on line 78:

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
'description' => 'Interval to show between minutes on time selectors',
{CODE}

Without tra(), the description cannot be translated into any language...

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...

When adding a new quicktag (for inserting YouTube videos) I wasn't able to add it to more than one feature. I.e., after adding it to the forums and then attempting to add it to articles and wikipages, rather than create a new instance, the forums instance would disappear and the new instance would take its place.

!Unable to delete a "shout" item in admin mode

If you have access to tv.tiki.org admin, please attempt to delete this shout box comment:

{CODE(caption="In admin mode, try deleting this")}https://tv.tiki.org/tiki-shoutbox.php?shout_remove=25{CODE}

Under ''Admin Processes'', upon attempting to a process, a number of MySQL errors are returned. The problem has to do with the syntax of the DELETE statement. As stated on the [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/delete.html|Mysql 5.0 reference manual] under the DELETE Syntax,
^If you provide an alias for a table, you must use the alias when referring to the table:^
However, in the DELETE queries, the first reference to the table is the table name itself, which causes the failure.

Using the native Geolocation feature for Articles, Wiki Pages, Blogs, etc, once a geolocation is assigned, using edit properties, you can change the location, but you cannot detach a location. Sometimes, a location may be accidentally added, but one should not be a part of that page.

In my case, I have wiki page templates, I accidentally assigned that template a location, and now the template shows up on my map. There is no way to detach the geolocation from a page, article or blog.

Tried to create a Show Instance, but it's not working.

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Experienced with Tiki 6.1. Consider the following:

#User adds an image to a wiki page by uploading it to the File Gallery.
#After successful upload, Tiki automatically inserts the necessary code:
+{CODE()} {img fileId="99" thumb="y"... {CODE}
#At a later date, the user wants to update/replace the image. There is no way for the user to find the image in the File Gallery, if you only know the __fileId__.
Attempting to search the file gallery for the __fileID__ will ''__not__'' find the image.

Proposed solutions:
#Make the fileID searchable.
#When editing an image via the Edit Plugin, there should be a way to automatically go to the correct file gallery.
#Add an optional field in the __img__ plugin for fileId.

__Describe precisely what you did (how to reproduce).__
During creation of a Content Template, the "Paddle Lock" symbol seems to be inoperable. Also the list page for Content Templates, has a "Paddle Lock" symbol that is no operating either.

__Describe exactly the faulty consequences.__
After Content Template creation, there is a "Paddle Lock" when clicked, does nothing.

__Explain what you expected instead of the faulty consequences. __
I expected the "Paddle Lock" symbol to lock itself upon clicking, thus rendering the Content Template only editable by admin.

!Impossibility to modify and save item
I'm a registered user with minimum functionality "Registered user" in the "Video" group.

In trying to modify my Consultant profile, I encountered several difficulties.

The main difficulty is that I am unable to modify the content. Let alone my img, I want to modify my description.

!My consultant profile
Here is the url of my consultant description: https://tiki.org/item6579

!Unable to save
Here is the screen capture showing that once I completed my modification, I'm unable to save. It looks like the saving button becomes idle but never finishes.
::{img fileId="1252" thumb="box"}::

If someone with admin access can replace the text for the one below in the meantime this bug that was discovered, it would greatly help me get this new contract I'm working on getting so that the prospects looking at my profile can say: Oh, Daniel and his TelePartout can help me resolve problems I have with my business development and he can refer me to the correct resource.

!-Here is the replacement text
{CODE(caption="Here is the replacement text",wrap="1")}
-=Intermediate Super User - Business Development consultant and Social Media specialist =-
Daniel is [http://tiki.org/UserPagedaniam|a member] of the Tiki community since 2011. His company [http://telepartout.com|TelePartout.com] is a 360 sales development company.

::~~#C00:A service bureau offering the help __you need!~~__::

Per example, get pages created, calendars, forums, blogs looked after with content that makes sense, etc.

[http://tiki.org/UserPagedaniam|Daniel] does translation and transcription too: English, French and Spanish.

And yes, [http://telepartout.com/BSNE|TelePartout loves to see what's coming up on your nearest screen] . If you need help, it's possible. See one of the ((Video Clips|video)) page Daniel maintain.
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If someone else is editing a wiki page the system will show a warning when you try to edit it. If you proceed to edit the page, it is not possible to preview your changes. Every time you click in the preview button after changing something in the page you are redirected to the warning you already decided to ignore. There is no way to preview your changes if someone else is editing the page.

When viewing a blog (tiki-view_blog), the post-level comments are not visible (there is no COMMENTS button). This forces users to first select the post's PERMALINK in order to see if there are any comments for a specific post.

The COMMENTS button should be visible for every blog post -- regardless if you are looking at tiki-view_blog or tiki-view_blog_post.

Working with tracker items it is not possible to upload/select a file using using Files field type for trackers.

The file gets uploaded to the file gallery, but the modal closes without linking the file to the tracker item.

A simple tracker view (such as: http://uniwiki.ourproject.org/tiki-view_tracker.php?trackerId=4) produces a warning like:
^
Notice: Undefined index: showAttachments in /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/uniwiki/htdocs/tiki-view_tracker.php on line 625

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/uniwiki/htdocs/tiki-view_tracker.php:625) in /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/uniwiki/htdocs/tiki-view_tracker.php on line 675
^

Hi,

I've put on the wiki hompage an {RSS} module, a list of the site's last modified wiki pages. Tiki-Mobile correctly generates the RSS list, but the links are non-mobile.

Is it possible to force mobile mode?

It took me some time to find out why I could not translate a particular string in /lib/prefs/freetags.php, and this is it:

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
'freetags_normalized_valid_chars' => [
'name' => tra('Valid characters pattern'),
'description' => tra('Click on the links below to set or clear a pattern to limit characters accepted in tags. '),
'type' => 'text',
'size' => '30',
'hint' => 'Useful to eliminate characters such as “,” which users can enter by mistake instead of a space.',
'default' => '',
],
{CODE}

This looks decent, it also carries calls to the tra() subroutine. But I could not catch it with this entry in custom.php:
{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
"Useful to eliminate characters such as “,” which users can enter by mistake instead of a space." => "Nützlich, um Zeichen zu eliminieren wie Kommata, die Benutzer anstelle von Leeerzeichen eingeben können",
{CODE}

The string for pattern matching is exactly identical to it's declaration in the source code, but it was not caught. Until finally I pumped the string into GHex, to look at its real composition.

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
echo -n "Useful to eliminate characters such as “,” which users can enter by mistake instead of a space." | od -A n -t x1
55 73 65 66 75 6c 20 74 6f 20 65 6c 69 6d 69 6e
61 74 65 20 63 68 61 72 61 63 74 65 72 73 20 73
75 63 68 20 61 73 20 e2 80 9c 2c e2 80 9d 20 77
68 69 63 68 20 75 73 65 72 73 20 63 61 6e 20 65
6e 74 65 72 20 62 79 20 6d 69 73 74 61 6b 65 20
69 6e 73 74 65 61 64 20 6f 66 20 61 20 73 70 61
63 65 2e
{CODE}

So what's looking decent are actually Unicode characters

{CODE(Colors="Tiki")}
e2 80 9c 2c e2 80 9d
{CODE}

I have absolutely no idea how to escape that so PHP will find it in pattern matching... Devs, please do not use Unicode unless really really necessary...

Even after the "Add default modules" button is clicked to add the modules, the button continues to display. Clicking the button again takes the admin to the admin-profiles page to find that the profile is already applied. The button should no longer display after the default modules are added, or should change to "Remove default modules". Also, IMO it would be good if there was a notice that the page is going to change/navigate to the admin-profiles page, maybe with a tooltip or helpblock text like "Apply Profile".

Also, the profile creates a wiki page called "Instructions - Admin UI Dashboard" that just contains a redirect to tiki-admin.php. This is confusing because there's no actual page, content-wise, and no instructions. Is this the stub of a feature that isn't finished yet?

With a default Bootstrap menu in the footer, on the Unified Admin Backend page, menu item dropdowns drop down and the page isn't scrollable to reveal the dropdown.

With Smartmenus turned on, the dropdowns in the footer menu will scroll upward away from the bottom margin but only a few items can be seen because the dropdown is hidden or blocked by the div above the footer. It seems like maybe a z-index problem.

A new user will want to through all menu items in the admin panel. In the new Unified panel: at one point, admin is yanked out and loses navigation.

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When creating a new structure, Tiki will automaticlly create the strucutre's wiki pages. However, Tiki does not assign a language to the page. Tiki defaults to __Unknown__. This means that the user must still manually open/edit __every__ created page to set the language properly.

It would be nice if Tiki used the ''__site's default language__'' instead of Unknown

r46077
In a tracker, when i set a field "text area" to use toolbar and wysiwyg i will have a lot of Unwanted alert "You are about to leave this page". Go at :[http://dev.tiki.org/tracker5] Click on the button "View Items".

http://dev.tiki.org/tracker5

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My "was just fine with Tiki29" tracker forms have now extra space added after a text Area tracker field.

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