Category: Usability

It is possible to type a long name of category, but the name gets truncated at 99 or 100 chars without warning. If the length of categories’ names is limited to 99, the field to enter categories should be limited to 99 also. Maybe the screen should say "max 99" beside the text entry zone.

Uploading a csv with a name longer than 99 gives an error message. The category is created but the name gets truncated. Children categories, having the category with long name for parent, are not created.

It makes impossible to upload the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) Summary: the first category for example, "0 SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE. ORGANIZATION. COMPUTER SCIENCE. INFORMATION. DOCUMENTATION. LIBRARIANSHIP. INSTITUTIONS. PUBLICATIONS" is 127 chars.
In the UDC Summary, the longer entry seems to be 173 chars. It seems to me reasonable to allow for categories with names of 256 chars, even if shorter names are recommended.

Or else, new ones are added at the bottom and it looks bad.

Categories are not assigned like they are asked to in the group settings.

"Default category assigned to uncategorized objects edited by a user with this default group:"

Group chosen is not auto assigned.


Categories are also not assigned like they are asked to in the Staging and Approval settings. I will be told I am creating a staging document, it will add the prefix, etc. However, it will not move it to the chosen staging category.

I have tried this with fresh installs of 4.1 and no profile loaded during initial setup.

guys.. I fixed the probem.. doesn't appear that I can upload anything..


dthacker: thanks for the fix, but our dev's can't see what you changed. Could you please do a diff between your code and current CVS, and comment on the changes? Thanks!

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See the attached word document for a step-by-step example of how
to recreate this issue.

It is also unclear how to created nested categories by using
the "Batch Upload (CSV File)" feature.

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When a category is more than one-level deep, the "Category" field type on Trackers will only display one level.

Example:

Furniture Level 1
_________|__________
| | |
Tables Chairs Sofas Level 2
__________| __|___ ___|_____
| | | | | |
legs top legs back cloth leather Level 3

In the above example, if one selects the parent id corresponding
to "Level 2" in the above example, then the category field only
contains choices "Tables, Chairs, Sofas", rather than those choices,
plus the levels below them (i.e. "legs, top, legs, back, cloth, leather").

It could be very useful to have all levels starting with a given "parent" level as part of the Category field.

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Filtering by category in trackers yields zero results. However, there are tracker items in the category, and they appear if you browse the category. Other filtering appears to work properly.

The URL appears to be malformed:


Note the extra bracket after filtervalue[33] parameter.
http://www.casesofinterest.com/tiki/tiki-view_tracker.php?trackerId=7&status=o&sort_mode=lastModif_desc&filterfield=33&filtervalue[31]=&filtervalue[32]=&filtervalue[49]=&filtervalue[47]=&filtervalue[41]=&filtervalue_other=&filtervalue[35]=&filtervalue[33][]=102&filtervalue[40]=&filtervalue[34]=&filtervalue[45]=&filter=Filter

However, manually removing the extra bracket also fails:
http://www.casesofinterest.com/tiki/tiki-view_tracker.php?trackerId=7&status=o&sort_mode=lastModif_desc&filterfield=33&filtervalue[31]=&filtervalue[32]=&filtervalue[49]=&filtervalue[47]=&filtervalue[41]=&filtervalue_other=&filtervalue[35]=&filtervalue[33][]=102&filtervalue[40]=&filtervalue[34]=&filtervalue[45]=&filter=Filter

In version 9.11, creating a Workspace using Perspectives and Category Jail would permit a user to view a tracker and all of its tracker items when that tracker was categorized appropriately. Upon upgrading to version 12.11, the tracker is still visible to users within the Perspective, but the "View Items" page does not list any items. The items are still accessible and editable by the user if they know the Item ID or have links to them, but they cannot be browsed. The item count will show correctly when viewing the list of trackers, but the tracker itself will report that it contains 0 items when viewing the items list.

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While user create a tracker on the "Category" tab of the modal there is a "Categories" link.
If the user click on it he is thrown away from the page with nothing he just entered saved.
This should not happen.

The user should be warn he is leaving is editing and nothing was saved yet.

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You can use a category module or a plugin List in a Tiki menu to display a list of items (link to a category page) for each sub category.

For exemple:
{CODE()}
{module module="categories" nobox="y" decoration="0" type="trackerItem" selflink="y" hideEmpty="y" onlyChildren="y" categId="23"}
{CODE}

{CODE()}
{LIST(searchable_only="0")}
{list max="500"}
{filter deepcategories="1"}
{filter type=category}
{LIST}
{CODE}

However this adds a bunch of empty link that push down the menu items:
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It also add an empty span for each items after the first child:
{img fileId="1496" thumb="box"}

Instance created here : http://bsfez-11581-7674.show2.tikiwiki.org

When using tiki-admin_transitions.php.

If I add a Transition, then tiki will not let me modify it (by Edit) since every icon (i e: Edit) will delete the Transition. Even If I click in "Guards" data (wich appears as a "0").

Also the yellow "Key" icon doesn´t turn green as is supposed to, after setting perms.

May be other anomalies.

Please help

Using Tiki 6.0 fresh Install.

New Edit:

Since I didn´t find any reference on how to use it, I´m exploring it myself.

What I did before I was stopped by this error is:

1. I Set up some Categories
2. Go to the tiki-admin_transitions.php. The Subset Tab is on and it shows me two options: 1. Category 2. Group
3. Click on Category, so it show the availabre Categories
4. Choose two categories, then click Select button. It reloads the page.
5. Click on New/Edit tab
6. Write a label: "New"
7. Chosse From and To options
8. Click SAVE. It goes to the List of Transitions
9. If I click on Edit icon, it deletes de transition and goes to the New/Edit tab, but empty... nothing selected or filled.
If I click the Guards (number 0) it does the same

If I change to the List, the transitios has dessapeared from it.

I'm seing some notices when attempting to go to "Currencies Config" in Community Currencies section in the Main application menu (provided the CC Mopd is installed, of course):

http://yourdomain/cc-admin.php?providers_refresh=1

^
Notice: Undefined variable: allp in /home/httpd/htdocs/lib/cc/cclib.php on line 365

Notice: Undefined variable: ret in /home/httpd/htdocs/lib/cc/cclib.php on line 375
^

This affects e.g. Articles, Admin and Image Galleries

Weirdest thing about that is, that the menu is collapsed when in Admin -> Menu editing the menu.. :O

Tracker 1
X text field
Y text field

Tracker 2
Y text field
Z text field

Tracker 3
R item link to 1,X
S dyn item list of 1,Y by linking R=X
T dyn item list of 2,Z by linking S=Y <-- this one does not work

If one installs tiki for the first time and for some reason the install process is not completed, then the admin change password prompt will not be displayed.

To reproduce:

Install tiki, but don't change the admin password.
Upgrade tiki. The admin change password does not appear.

There is no option to do a "fresh install" so if there is an issue during installation that forces on to restart, then the admin change prompt won't appear to them.

Perhaps instead of detecting if the install is an "upgrade" or "fresh install" to trigger the admin password change, it should check if the admin password is still the default password.

Tested the WYSIWYG in 1.10 works very well, much to like, especially how well is handles paste from word.

__Needed:__ A popup warning to prevent a lost edit if you switch from wysiwyg to normal editor, this currently causes a ((doc:lost edit))

__Would be nice:__ the buttons in paste from word popup should be more clear "clean up box" should be named "clear box" if that is what it does.

__Would be nicer:__ Word html to Wiki syntax conversion (ignores all unsupported formatting

I have a site where saving (or cancelling editing) a wiki page wasn't working, you just get the same tiki-editpage.php back... After a lot of searching i found it was due to a php.ini setting called -+max_input_vars+- which defaults to 1000. And this site now has 1016 categories! (:eek:)

My proposal is to make a better category picker which can use a hidden input to contain a comma separated list of the category id's selected as on single input, instead of having 1016 individual checkboxes on the form.

So let's find a nice, hierarchical picker to do this, maybe a Vue JS one? Or maybe this should be an extension of -+object_selector_multi+-

See the problem in action:
I copied an url of a tracker item:
{CODE()}
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=97&show=view&status=op&trackerId=5&sort_mode=f_41_desc&filterfield=26&filtervalue[26]=check
{CODE}

onto another tracker item report, but adding wiki syntax:
[http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=97&show=view&status=op&trackerId=5&sort_mode=f_41_desc&filterfield=26&filtervalue[26]=check|see tracker item]

There is some trouble with __~np~&filtervalue[26]=check~/np~__ form the url when used as external link between square brackets.

For each new release, part of the info is on doc.tiki.org/Tiki8 and part is in https://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes

Many times, no one creates a ReleaseNote page and it gives a broken link to users.

Let's stop this.

Let's put all links to the doc.tiki.org/Tiki8 and if there are any relevant release notes, they will be added there.

Notice: Undefined variable: modcatlist in modules/mod-change_category.php on line 80

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When editing files in the notepad, I periodically notice strange conversions of characters intowhat appears to be coded versions of the said symbol. This seems to get worse with each iteration of editing a note. Example:

Versions:
#~np~(Unsaved Origional Version) I “can‘t“ ''code'' & I can‘t __think__.~/np~
#~np~(Saved once, and then reopened) I “can‘t“ ''code'' &amp; I can‘t __think__.~/np~
#~np~(Saved previous version, then reopened)I “can‘t“ &amp;#039;&amp;#039;code&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;amp; I can‘t __think__.~/np~

I would suspect, as an uneducated guess, that there is a problem with the substitution routine involved in loading the notes..

Since wiki page names should avoid special characters, we'll need to think about maybe using character substitutions in page names (a instead of à, _ instead of ') and use the description field for the exact format.

Please coordinate here: ((Character substitutions))

toggg fixed the broken Wiki-parsing in Blog/Trackers etc. - basically every feature except Wiki

We now need to cross-check for breakings!!

To get a list of all files to check, use this command:

$ find . -name '*.php' -exec grep -iEH 'parse_data\(' {} \;

Using latest trunk from today (Feb 1, 2010)
Installed blank new tiki site, enabled tiki sheets.
Wishes:

(1) When adding a new sheet, some hint could be shown about the chance to use jquery.sheet interface.

I enabled jquery.sheet plugin, but not ajax.

(2) If ajax is required for jquery.sheet to work (that's what I've been told, but I don't know for sure myself), jquery.sheet should report that ajax is needed and show a link to enable it.

Version 5.4 is out but under "General Preferences," the "Check For Updates Now" does not work

Please see:
http://en.opquast.com/bonnes-pratiques/