External Wikis; Bad name, badly documented and hard to find from the Control Panel area
- Status
- Open
- Subject
- External Wikis; Bad name, badly documented and hard to find from the Control Panel area
- Version
- 26.x
master - Category
- Easy for Newbie Dev
- Feature request
- Feature
- Wiki Syntax (text area, parser, external wiki, etc)
- Resolution status
- New
- Submitted by
- Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist
- Lastmod by
- Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist
- Rating
- Description
This feature External-Wikis is very hard to find from the admin control panels and its name doesn't tells what it really does.
It allows to use aliases for external websites set by the admin that will be used and displayed as wiki links.
However, beside the obscure name"External Wikis"... ??♂️;
It is not to be found in the Wiki panel tabs.
It is not to be found in the results of the search preferences filter.You can find it under the admin menu item "Tools"... something this is not IMO.
It is also in the Settings menu (but you don't have access to this menu from the admin area)
The setting page displays 2 additional fields compared to the documentation. The inline help doesn't really help to understand the simple mortals what they do:
- Index, prefixmain, such as tiki_main
- Search as, Leave blank to search using currently active groups.
Someone with knowledge should tell what they are doing.
In summary, another gem buried in the Tiki preferences that deserves better visibility and documentation.- Solution
Easy/quick
- The External Wikis (links) settings should be "foundable" in the Search Preferences.
- The External Wikis (links) settings should be added somewhere under the Wiki control panel.
Less easy/quick- The name should be changed for "External Wiki Links".
- Importance
- 5
- Easy to solve?
- 8
- Priority
- 40
- Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
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This bug has been demonstrated on show2.tiki.org
Please demonstrate your bug on show2.tiki.org
Show.tiki.org is not configured properlyThe public/private keys configured to connect to show2.tiki.org were not accepted. Please make sure you are using RSA keys. Thanks.
- Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
-
This bug has been demonstrated on show.tikiwiki.org
Please demonstrate your bug on show.tikiwiki.org
Show.tiki.org is not configured properlyThe public/private keys configured to connect to show.tikiwiki.org were not accepted. Please make sure you are using RSA keys. Thanks.
- Ticket ID
- 8404
- Created
- Tuesday 09 May, 2023 05:54:23 UTC
by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist - LastModif
- Tuesday 09 May, 2023 06:13:28 UTC