Category: Documentation (or Advocacy)

A lack of documentation on the correct usage of code in the Custom Site Header section may result in a broken site (blank white page)

For example, if one wanted to display a menu based on a users group but did not use the proper code (because he can't find documentation showing the proper code) there is a good chance the site could break.

It has happened to me a couple times but fortunately was able to go back or to another tab and remove the site breaking code and save again.

This bug is tied to [http://example.com|http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=1964&trackerId=5&show=view]

I have had various issues navigating my wiki seemingly because $base_url is not getting built correctly, or at all. The first of these issues happens at login where the user puts in a bad username or password. The redirect to the error page fails on Firefox and has a URL with doubled forward slashes after the domain because the $base_url is not getting passed. URLs get built as follows (where 'example.com' is my domain):

Firefox:
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()} http://example.com\/tiki-error.php?error=Invalid+username {CODE}

IE:
{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()} http://example.com//tiki-error.php?error=Invalid+username {CODE}

This happens with relative URLs all over tikiwiki in my installation, which is a WAMP with virtualHost entries in the httpd.conf to resolve 2 distict domains on the same server.

How about an infobox that will appear in the right column connected not only to wiki pages but to tabs within the wikipage. the info box would be able to be edited separately from the wiki page but be connected to the wiki page . the info box should be able to include video,maps,graphs,.

here is an example of an infobox that I am working on but this one is not in the right column but withing the page its self.

http://wiki.mousecentral.com/tiki-index.php?page=Splash+Mountain#contentSplash_MountainTab-2

The installation documentation (I referred to all pages linked from the main page plus several postgresql-specific ones) do not give any indication that TikiWiki is only usable if installed in document root (aka TikiWiki is greedy/must run the whole domain). This should be specified as a installation requirement.

A better solution (IMHO) would be to fix the coding (e.g. replace absolute paths by relative ones) so that TikiWiki would place nice if installed in a subdirectory.

When people register to a Tiki site, they sometimes use their email instead of a username. While this works, there should be a warning that this email will be visible in wiki page history, etc.

There is an option to use email as username, but this should not be for community sites.


Other checks would be for accents, existing username, etc.

Hello there,

I've been trying to use my main tiki instance as an InterTiki server, but so far it didn't work out despite the many attempts following the documentation thoroughly.
The response received at the client side is "XMLRPC Error: 5 - Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.1 302 Found)".

I see that the server gets the request from the client but it seems to return an empty message. This is what the apache log looks like:

request authorized without authentication by access_checker_ex hook: /remote.php
[Tue Oct 06 16:46:51.827942 2020] [http:trace4] [pid 27697] http_filters.c(953): [client 2a05:1500:600:7:1c00:56ff:fe00:f4c:60310] Content-Length: 0
[Tue Oct 06 16:46:51.827945 2020] [http:trace4] [pid 27697] http_filters.c(953): [client 2a05:1500:600:7:1c00:56ff:fe00:f4c:60310] Connection: close

I've tried many different things to make it work, including removing .htaccess, disabling all auth and security modules in Apache, etc.

If you could give me a hint what the problem could be I'd appreciate it very much.

Best,
Daniel

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!!!After upgrade the admin can't login anymore

!!!The failure sequence :
#Create a new directory or repository for the new version
#Update with your files (particularly images or icons)
#Site enable (example a sub-domain) on Apache
#Copy the database on new name
#Install manually .htaccess (compare and insert your valid options )
#Update "local.php"
#run <your new domain>/tiki-install.php. Goto the end (note an error occurs if your say at the end "run tiki" without locking or not because tiki-setup tries to re-open a session already automatically opened by installer). You just launch again (default tiki-index)
#~~#F00:__Try to login as admin : You will be rejected as wrong password __~~

!!Analysis - many possible reasons :
There are a lot of reasons to be in this situations. So to be successful a lot of conditions must be satisfied :

#If your new version uses the same current domain (after upgrade for my own I defines the same "servername" as current one and then keep the other when a particular name containng the version :
- The Cookies of session will try to reconnect an older version and a trace shows that the password is not the one you have given (generally empty). So the cookies of the site name must be cleared on your navigator

#The temp files or session table contain too wrong data : they must be cleared on server for your current copy (SVN update case)

#Your admin record in user_user record contains sessions data : they create a conflict which makes crash your login

#Be careful of the fact that you can have an open session in your navigator with the same site (sometimes we uses a lot of tab management which can create this : on firefox use showcase and search to clear your old sessions

#Generally avoid these problem is sufficient but at the end you will be prompt to update your password (as for the first login as admin with password admin). This can fail for the following reason : if the .htaccess is not set or modrewrite not well operational the <site name> will include the "port" used by your server. If your NAT translates the port address (i.e. 80-> 4397) you will get the following url <site>:4397/.... which fails

It is sure that if you use only one site close everything and upgrade you will get the minimum of problems but you will get someone anywhere.


!!~~#099:This situation is common and complex for whom have to manage product and data migration from one version (or several) of tiki to a new one.~~
It is not seen generally by developers, because it is not at all their common upgrade process nor test.

Hello,

Here is a wish in regards to my learning curve.

I heard that Tiki is good at allowing others to create forms.

Here is the print screen of __this form_, which is quite impressive.

---

::{img src="http://yogapartout.com/extlinks/ftp/useCase/imgs/printScreens/wishToLearnViaVideoHowToCreateAformLikeThis.jpg" link="http://yogapartout.com/extlinks/ftp/useCase/imgs/printScreens/wishToLearnViaVideoHowToCreateAformLikeThis.jpg" width="800"}::

---

I'm actually _the Tiki's most populare Newbie_ as I am still learning the basics about Tiki.

Here is my panel box of what my form, the only one I have looks alike on my admin panel

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::{img src="http://yogapartout.com/extlinks/ftp/useCase/imgs/printScreens/LearnViaVideoHowToCreateAform.jpg" link="http://yogapartout.com/extlinks/ftp/useCase/imgs/printScreens/LearnViaVideoHowToCreateAform.jpg" width="800"}::

---

Is there a video somewhere that shows how to create (this actual form I'm using to communicate this need) a form?

Daniel.

The "Directory Batch Upload" page states "Please do not use this feature to upload data into the database." The page is stating that it should not be used, thus rendering it unusable. Clarification is needed.

Hi All,

I’m working on the Tikiwiki 2.2 with a LDAP authentication.

In the login option, I see it is possible to automatically give someone access in the Tiki if this person is in LDAP directory.

My question is: Is it possible to define access with a Distribution List group and not with the entire LDAP directory?

On another note, do you know why “LDAP Member is DN” can not be set to “yes?”

Thanks for your response

Hi there,

I want to nkow if it is possible to integrate the tikiwiki login process with another page, I want to create another secure page using the tikiwiki login process, Do you guys have any hint for doing that?

My page will be in php also, I know that I will probably have to do some inclusion but don't which file to include in my code and which function.

Any help will be much apreciated.

Thanks

Could someone please make the fields this tracker uses available to the community, please? (easily done, since there's an export/import feature!)

I'm trying to create a support web site, so obviously need much the same thing as this site. Trackers are quite a learning curve, so a couple of good examples would be really useful!

If someone does this, I'll add an export of the fields I end up using and make them available too (I've got a couple of other tracker apps up my sleeve too).

Cheers!

I tried to setup Manticore search on a database server and it just said connection refused when I tried to do a php console.php index:rebuild. I installed manticore via apt, I set manticore as the engine in tiki but still no joy. Am I missing something? Perhaps if I can get the proper config settings I'll do up a Documentation page on doc.tiki...

Some questions around manticore:
Should I disable mysql?
Can mysql run in parallel with manticore?
Do they use the same application port (firewall issues) .
Can you import my-tiki-database.sql into manticore without formatting /conversion etc...
Cheers,
K

I think this feature refers to the small calendar that can appear in a left or right module. The help link currently points to the calendar page, which only describes the JS navigation calendar.

Read and tried the various methods in the various (sometimes conflicting) MultiTiki documentation. Could not figure out a path to success.

It appears that (although it was claimed otherwise on some other pages) that shell access is required for MultiTiki.

Questions that came about during attempt at integration:
(1) Is it possible to setup MultiTiki when one is on a hosted server (via FTP only)? If so, what is the process? I would be willing to write up the process if I could figure out how to do it.
(2) Which of the MultiTiki's is supported for TikiWiki3 ?
(3) Is there a web-based installer for setting up several tikiwikis on the same domain (but in different folders)?


How can I help vette the install process?

I would really like to setup an InterTiki + MultiTiki site as my coroporate intratnet. This would closely mimic the sub-web functionality in TWiki but allow for group wiki's to get their own distinct identity. At this point, TikiWiki is nearly more functional than TWiki, but the InterTiki/MultiTiki difficulties may be the deal breakers.

Organic Group Addon gone in current 14.x compared to what doc.t.o says about it

See http://doc.tiki.org/Installing+Addons?structure=HomePage+AdminGuide

But in 14.x svn r55196, no option to enable Organic Groups (no organic group seen at all in the Control Panel Features > Addons tab.)

See it reproduced here:
http://xavi-9794-5643.show.tikiwiki.org/tiki-admin.php?page=features#contentadmin_features-addons
u: admin
p: 12345

This maybe an issue of the localization (I use the German version of Tiki 18.3).

The lifetime of the PHP sesseion is adjustable, via tiki-admin.php?page=general#contentadmin_general-2

There it says, that the variable is defined in "minutes". That is not correct, PHP sessions are defined in seconds. The preset value (10080) corresponds to that. 10080 seconds equal exactly 168 minutes or precisely 2.8 hours. Definitely sessions time out after 2 hours something, not after 168 hours.

This is just a minor issue, and could be rectified with the next planned (or executed) update.

This "bug" IMHO does not need to be demoed...

Thanks
Hman

Can you please make the http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tracker5 "trackers fields" available for download so we can import it to our tracker.
We need a tracker with similar functionality but so far I have not managed to create on.

Thank you.

Noob here enjoying the site, enjoying the software and finding my way around. Thank you.

It means spending a *lot* of time at the Tiki sites.

I get the message already about the dogfood. Cool.

But every day, every page load, I must dismiss this notice to uncover what is underneath. Or scroll the viewport out from under it.

It is located on top of the navigation.

Can we not have it fixed in the page above the navigation, or permanently dismissable once logged in, or ...?

Can we just use the site now, and stop swatting at the javascript? :)

I'm just setting up svn etc now. And wouldn't have the balls to make such a visible change right off the hop anyway. It's not real important obviously. But if somebody is there and knows and can do, it would make surfing the sites more pleasant...

Cheers!!

Since I was critized for editing an existing Tiki theme to fit my needs on two installations, I wanted to give the "official" way a try.

So I visited
https://themes.tiki.org/Creating-a-Tiki-theme

which is the official documentation. I have the impression (but cannot prove this, of course) that I am the first to actually use this...

It fails. On step 1 (Three Ways to Make a New Theme).
https://themes.tiki.org/Three-Ways-to-Make-a-New-Theme

Btw, BOTH pages are dated 2016... There are three alternatives listed:
# Link to a Bootstrap.css File for a New Theme
# Add a Style Sheet to the Themes Directory
# Make a Less-Compiled Tiki Theme

===''__Less...__''===

There is another documentation from Tiki:
https://themes.tiki.org/Updating-a-Tiki-theme-from-Bootstrap-3-to-4

to which I was pointed recently. Besides the fact that it hasn't been updated in 4 years, it stil reads als "work in progress". Like this table:

|| Less function | SCSS equivalent
coming soon | coming soon ||

"coming soon". How "soon" is 4 years? Another example

"I'll add a table here of the changes I've had to make when updating Tiki themes, but in the meantime" So we do not learn what changes had to be made, and we cannot learn from Tiki's devs what pitfalls were discovered. And there the documentation ends...

Bootstrap's documentation, on the other hand
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/migration/

isn't very useful as well. It addresses only developers who are fully rooted in the entire Bootstrap universe. Frankly, I understand not even half of the stuff.

TW5.0beta1
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Hello+World#To_create_a_new_plugin seems to be outdated. the plugin cannot be installed i the prescribed way.
By the time a php plugin file with a "wikiplugin_" prefix is saved to the lib/wiki-plugins folder, the Administration/Editing, plugins gives an empty pages. So do all the pages containing the new wiki plugin. Nothing is listed as a plug-in to be installed.

Two smaller corrections
* The sample code containing an extra '}' (last but one in wikiplugin_helloworld_info())
* The name to save the plugin must be lib/wiki-plugins/wikiplugin_helloworld.php instead of lib/wiki-plugins/wikiplugin-helloworld.php.

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I'm testing the documentation recently updated in doc.t.o for Kanban ( https://doc.tiki.org/PluginKanban ), where it provides some demo yaml to create the tracker and wiki page to easily have a working kanban board, in theory. But it fails for me (linux, ubuntu 22.04, usinb php 8.1.x, recent Chromium) in a similar manner to how it fails for me when testing the profile in band new sites ( see also https://dev.tiki.org/item8418-Kanban_Board_25-profile-produces-non-working-setup ).

New gif video to show the issue in my local machine this time:
{img fileId="2119"}

Provide example for jquery regex url that validates the condition in tracker field: positive number with or without decimals

I followed the example from here: http://www.sitepoint.com/jquery-basic-regex-selector-examples/ (plus from many other internet sites suggesting regex's for that condition with no luck) :-(

It seems to work in Tiki14 with this validation regex:
{CODE()}
^\+?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+$
{CODE}

But it didn't work for me in Tiki12. I'll try to reproduce again in a Tiki 12 show.t.o instance.
to reproduce, come here:
http://xavi-9794-5641.show.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Bug_Tracker

and type 12 at the field Number: you'll get "Provide a positive number with or without decimals" and you shouldn't

On Doc.t.o for the Tutorial - Goals (https://doc.tiki.org/Tutorial---Goals) there is a link to presentation shown by Nelson Ko in the March 2014 Webinar. (http://tiki.org/March%202014%20Webinar)

On the page there is a link for the video recording of the Webinar: http://tiki.bigbluebutton.org/playback/presentation/playback.html?meetingId=d559965849921585c1849af03b7a51638700d979-1395341594983&t=13m45s

Unfortunately the link goes nowhere...

__A notice that may be usefull to only admins is shown to users__
In https://nextdoc.dev9.evoludata.com/Permission-Check '''i think notice Opinion: This is too complex and unclear for Tiki users. I think it should be removed''' could be better to show to only admins