Category: Transition (of Groups or Categories)

Right now, group expiry just removes the user from the group.
In use cases of membership management in associations, or business, in which members pay a fee per year, this feature is needed for an easier setup without so much intervention of the admin in so many steps.

Scenario: NGO with 3 levels of users:
* A) "regular members", needing tyo pay fee FA
* B) "associated members" , needing tyo pay fee FB
* C) "students", needing tyo pay fee FC

2 levels of time-dependent fees for each group:
* first year you pay feee F*1
* from second year onwards you pay a different fee F*2

When the membership payment for a year is over, that user should be automatically re-assignable to another group defined in the group transitions, which should allow to set conditions for the trigger to happen:
* when group expiry happens
* when freeperiods frmo ((doc:PluginMemberPayment)) expire
* when some tracker field = some value, higher/lower than some date or other tracker field, etc. (this one is just brainstorming; it should be thought more {sign user="xavi" datetime="2016-05-27T10:51:06+00:00"})

This way, they can be requested to pay for the fee F*2, knowing that they have to pay FA2, FB2 or FC2. With current codebase, after gruop expiry, you do not know which group that user belonged to, and you can't offer that user the right fee to be payed for with plugin MemberPayment.


HTH

This should be migrated to the community site, and handled with ((doc:Organic groups)) and ((doc:User Trackers))

Category transitions can only be defined from ONE category to ANOTHER category. It is just as valid to have a transition from NO category to A category. This is not possible at the moment.

Example: Defining a workflow for wiki pages via category transitions. Once a wiki page is in one of the workflow categories, transitions can be triggered via the category transition module. But it is not possible to use the same module to insert a wiki page into the workflow. One has to select one of the workflow-categories from the categories tab while editing the page. This is bad UX as it doesn't make sense to the end user why there are two different ways of interacting with the workflow, especially since the workflow categories should ideally not be selectable from the categories tab at all.

Additionally it would also make sense to be able to remove a wiki page from the workflow, i.e. defining a transition that removes the FROM category without adding another category.

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.

{syntax type="tiki" editor="plain"}
When I evaluated the software for my project, I was very happy when the documentation said that it was possible to create a workflow with categories, transitions and watches. But I realized that watching a category only triggered a mail notification when the transition was made in the tiki-admin_categories.php page. It was useless for me!! :-((

A nice feature would be to be able to trigger a group transition inside a tracker plugin. (Not only in the memberlist plugin)

My idea is to use it ([https://dev.tiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=5948|In conjunction with this request]) to make a workflow of accepting a user based on a group tracker the user has filled to join a group. (An application form, in other words)

Thanks Tikiers