Category: Forum

At https://tiki.org/forumthread70022-mpdf-Generates-Black-PDF-docs

Logged, I tried to check the PDF feature by going to the "Thread actions", click on the item "PDF".

It downloaded a blank document onto my computer.

Tested on Tiki24 still here.

When you use a wiki page as template (pretty tracker, pluginlist+semantic alias, etc) we have several component that refer to the template page name and not the item (title) it is displaying.

Things like Multilike, Forum for discussion, Wiki argument variables { {page} }, etc

They will refer/link to the page itself and not to the item title.

IE: I have a template page named __record tpl__ to display a tracker item contact (title:bernard) and on the page I have set Forum for discussion option to create automatically a topic in the forum to discuss about this contact: bernard.

Normally I would expect the title of the discussion to be bernard but it will be "record tpl" and also there will be only one discussion for ALL my items (as the reference is the wiki page object and not the itemId displayed).

Same goes for { {page} } it will show "record tpl" and not "bernard"

{syntax type="tiki" editor="plain"}
I want to have multiple forums or (forum_lists) in tikiwiki, because, for example, I want my users to contribute exclusively under the gfdl in one forumlist, but may post copyrighted content in another forumlist.

Current situation: From the menu, the users can click on the forums link which leads them to tiki-forums.php. This displays a list of all the forums the user has the right to see listed, with sections.

The idea is to add an extra argument in the url which specifies which forumlist the user wants to see. example: tiki-forums.php?bigforum=gfdlforum and tiki-forums.php?bigforum=copyrightedstuff
A forum can "belong" to only one "bigforum", or forumlist, so this means an extra column in tiki_forums in the db.

Modifications to tiki-forums.php, right after

{CODE()}
// This shows a list of forums everybody can use this listing
include_once ("lib/commentslib.php");
$commentslib = new Comments($dbTiki); {CODE}

I put

{CODE()}

// Check for bigforum attribute in url, and assigns it to bigforum variable. If not, display an error page. this means tiki-forums.php displays an error page.

if (isset($_REQUEST["bigforum"])) {
$bigforum = $_REQUEST["bigforum"];
} else {
$smarty->assign('errortype', 401);
$smarty->assign('msg', tra("Permission denied you cannot view this page"));

$smarty->display("error.tpl");
die;
} {CODE}

And in commentslib.php, in the list_forums function, after

{CODE()} if ( $res['forumId'] != '' && $this->user_has_perm_on_object($user, $res['forumId'], 'forum', 'tiki_p_forum_read') ) { {CODE}

I put

{CODE()} if ( $bigforum == $res['bigforum'] ){ {CODE}
with an extra closing } somewhere down the road.


The bigforum attribute must be manually added in the db, but appart from that it works. better integration with the rest of Tiki would be awesome, url rewrite could give something like tiki.org/forums/IDorNAMEoftheBigforum/


All of this is just broken hacking and my first attempt at doing something, so don't be too harsh ;)

I complained here and there about losing editing and I think now I’ve narrowed it a bit... At least for the forum.

On Safari, Mac freshly logged from with in the forum (no perspectives change) my first post of the day (new session ?) is never saved properly. The saving wheel is displayed but the page is refreshed without my post.

Once this done I can save "normally" my post.

Our community needs some forums for the administrators only so that we can pass messages back and forth. However, there's no way to make any of this private. Any registered user can read and post what need to be private forums. In many cases you don't even have to be registered to read.

It's not easy to get information in your mail box from all tiki sites where discussions are held in forums, in order to find out which threads didn't receive any reply. Imagine the user forums (many) in t.o.: you need to browse through many forums to see the threads that didn't receive any reply yet, in case you know answers to amny questions, but your time is limited and you want to focus first in the threads that didn't receive any reply yet.

A new option to include '__Threads with no replies yet__' to ((doc:Daily Reports)) and to ((doc:Notification digests)) would be very useful. This idea is borrowed originally from vbulletin, which included this feature many years ago. See example of email received from another software (probably vbulletin, even if I can't tell for sure any more) where that section is included.

In fact, an even better solution could be to create a new module for "__Threads with no replies yet__", and allow some way to let the tiki admin include some modules in ((doc:Daily Reports)) and in ((doc:Notification Digests)).

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{CODE}

When editing a Wiki-page and clicking on Wiki-Help there is a link to change the Help to Plugin-Help.

This link doesn't appear when editing forum or trackers..

{syntax type="tiki" editor="plain"}
#Create a new thread and type in a few words
#press PREVIEW to verify and press SAVE after that.
#verify that posting went well
#now reply to this initial posting by typing a few words and press PREVIEW to see that preview works fine
#now press SAVE and get the error message __
Notice: this variable may not be empty: $_POST["thread_sort_mode"]__
#wiki-button "back" leads to another __error message saying "no thread"__ or something like that (I can only see the german text "Kein Thread").
#to see and capture the text of your reply to your clipboard you need to press the back button of your browser
#now reply again to the initial posting, paste in the content of your clipboard and immediatelly press SAVE (without PREVIEW)
#see that saving your reply is fine


When logged in as a regular user this procedure applies and shows errors. When logged in as admin save after preview is fine.

Logically titles in forums are the titles of threads, and people who participate to a thread agree to talk about the thread subject, deefined by the original poster. There is no need whatsoever for posts titles. They are redundant.

Therefore, compelling users to add a title to their post is a nuisance, since they don't wish to spend time adding something else than what they said in their post. And be blocked by the system although they provided an answer that makes sense.

The code looks like this (right, it's also missing ARIA attributes):
{CODE()}
<label class="col-sm-4 col-form-label">{tr}Forum Order{/tr}</label>
<div class="col-sm-8">
<div class="form-text">
{tr}{$forumOrder|escape}{/tr}
</div>
</div>
{CODE}

but only the label displays. There's no forum order information. Apparently this page is related: tiki-admin.php?page=forums&cookietab=2&highlight=forums_ordering so maybe something set here should show up as forum order on the forum's main admin tab, but I don't really know. Anyway, either the data should display or the label should be removed.

It is not possible to move a topic/discussion from a main forum into a subforum.
It is not possible to move a discussion in a subform into another subforum.

Since a few days (may be a week+) I receive now a notification of my own post in the forum.

IE:
I replied to a post at : https://tiki.org/forumthread79371-Restrict-languages-in-i18n-crashes-website

I received the following email:
Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist __mentioned you__ in forum post "Restrict languages in i18n crashes website !"

You can view the mention by following this link:
https://tiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?threadId=79372#mentioned-bsfez-section-1

---

I'm pretty sure that I was not notified of my own post a few days ago which seems to me the normal behavior. (else we need a different text in the notification)

{syntax type="tiki" editor="plain"}
At https://tiki.org/forumthread79535-Unsubscribe-link-in-header-records I posted an answer with a picture.
It has been uploaded to the Tiki file gallery and was visible after the first save.

I edited the comment and now, while the plugin code is still visible if I edit the comment, the thumbnail is not visible anymore.

Tested on Brave and Chrome.

{img fileId="3048" thumb="box"}

{img fileId="3049" thumb="box"}

Most of the time, comments (or forum threads) have less than 10 comments. Therefore, this box is not useful, and clutters the User Interface.

Parameter nobox=y is not working anymore for the module forums_last_posts

http://bsfez-11581-7540.show2.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php

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Updated on the 8/05/2023; Still broken, tested at https://nextdev.dev9.evoludata.com

{img fileId="2055" thumb="box"}

This was reported on ((tw:ReleaseProcess19))

Has this been fixed?

On Mac Safari since a few day I had issue when posting a reply on the forum at tiki.org nothing is saved at first I though I did something wrong but after the third time I check clicking the back button :

{img fileId="1187" thumb="box"}

On Tikiwiki.org, I see a form for posting a new message after I have sent the first post of a new topic.

That is not clean. There is no reason I want want to reply to myself immediately after posting.

It can also be very confusing for newbies, and give the impression the system has failed.

Mail answers to forum posts do not get sorted to the correct thread when the mail subject is encoded due to non-ascii characters. There is a new thread started.

Original subject in forum: HIPP Biopute mit Möhrchen

Subject in mail sent from tikiwiki: =?utf-8?q?HIPP_Biopute_mit_M=C3=B6hrchen?=

Subject in mail sent to tikiwiki: Re: =?utf-8?q?HIPP_Biopute_mit_M=C3=B6hrchen?=

Subject in forum after mail retrieval: =?utf-8?q?HIPP_Biopute_mit_M=C3=B6hrchen?=

Tikiwiki does not decode the encoded mail subject.

I see the same behaviour, when the mail subject is encoded in iso885-15 insted of utf8.

Postgres returns row length error to tiki-view_forum.php upon attempt to write data from long e-mail to a forum with email-to-forum functionality enabled.

At the moment the forums in tikiwiki have only a very basic functionality unfortunatelly. Please add a few things to make them more usable especially for people who are plain users and not developers.
Second issue with quote: In case you have a more complex discussion going you often need to quote several people in one reply. It is very bad for normal users (!) to have to learn and write code. Thus a button "quote" that enters the code automatically into the eply box and only needs to be filled with name and content would be a very good improvement.

At the moment the forums in tikiwiki have only a very basic functionality unfortunatelly. Please add a few things to make them more usable especially for people who are plain users and not developers.
First one: Quote function is not citing (or allows no addition manually) whose post is cited. That is a forum standard feature, please add it! People at our page ask for it, we just launched and have already 50 users and will grow fast with a lot of complex discussions. That is absolutelly necessary.

When you use the plugin QUOTE, the user you reply not appear automatically in the Post new message box, and you have to introdude it manually

Presently Tikiwiki gives the possibility to quote always or to quote never.

Obviously the quote or not quote should be left at the appreciation of the user, depending on the previous post.

Forums are getting powerful enough to substitute mailing lists on many tiki sites (yahhogroups, etc.). However, notification messages from forums cannot be added easily to local email filters since the subject doesn't contain a label like [[Forum X - site Y] to ease this task.
{CODE()}
[Forum X - site Y]
{CODE}

I guess this must be very easy for a coder (just adding some variable to a smarty template? and adding a call to that variable if needed from the related .php or .tpl file - I just get the rough idea... I wish I could do that myself...)