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Major Features Missing In Tiki

Many Open Source web applications have a large number of features available as add-ons. They need to be installed separately and there are often several add-ons for the same purpose. Instead, the Tiki community uses an all-in-one Model. One of the consequences is that Tiki is the FOSS Web Application with the most built-in features. Not only has this been true for a quite a while now, but Tiki also has a much faster than average release schedule, with a major release every 6 to 8 months.

And some Tiki community members are active with https://wikisuite.org/ which offers features way beyond the scope of a web application.


Even with all the features, there are still several hundred feature requests. But most of these are requests for enhancements to an existing feature. Once a feature is in the code base and is basically usable, it usually evolves naturally/organically. In each Tiki version, most features are refined at least a bit. Some like Webmail need a lot of work. But at least, it's a start.

But when a feature is totally absent, it takes a spark to make it happen and take it to the level where is starts evolving naturally/organically.

What does Tiki not do yet? (please base your answers on latest code). You can also check out the list of Use Cases for more ideas. See also: Interesting Features from other Web apps

Major features totally missing

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModifComments
(2) Offline Tiki: add a way to save/view content offlineedjusted339
  • Feature request
2007-11-262018-10-0512
david@ndu-30 Jul 20
(0) Community/Customer/Constituent Relationship Management system (CRM)Marc Laporte840
  • Feature request
2008-06-042010-12-240
(1) Add status update and support the open microblogging specificationMarc Laporte735
  • Feature request
2009-01-122009-04-120
(0) Social Networking-type transactions between membersMarc Laporte630
  • Feature request
  • Community projects
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
leyan2008-06-042010-05-020
(0) Make Tiki more viralMarc Laporte8324
  • Feature request
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2008-03-092013-06-090
(2) Resource Checkout System and rental pool (to reserve rooms, books, cars, etc).yoleonard7321
  • Feature request
2008-05-072019-08-293
xavi-29 Aug 19
(1) Image Manipulation (image cropping, color changing, watermark, etc.)Marc Laporte7321
  • Feature request
2008-05-192019-05-0413
marclaporte-09 Jan 24
(0) TikiBountySystemXavi (as xavidp - admin)420
  • Feature request
  • Community projects
2005-07-012021-09-301
Bsfez-30 Sep 21
(0) Blacklist domains and wordsMarc Laporte8216
  • Feature request
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2009-12-112017-09-154
marclaporte-28 Aug 17
(0) In / out boardMarc Laporte210
  • Feature request
2008-03-092008-05-191
marclaporte-17 Dec 17
(0) Improve Shopping Cart / ecommerce / online orders to become a multi-sided platform (marketplace / classified ads / rental management )Marc Laporte5210
  • Feature request
2008-06-042018-11-270
  • Team Password Management
  • WikiTrust
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Link checker (internal and external)
  • Animations
  • Repository Browser for Code Review
  • Web IDE
  • Translation option for user submitted comments/posts
  • Time Tracking
  • A well-defined API for building applications on top of, or integrating application into Tiki. People often say this but without a specific example, it's difficult to follow-up upon. Current plugins structure is very efficient to interface with 3rd party services. Can you give 2-3 specific examples of applications or types of applications you have in mind? Thanks! --marclaporte
    • Some apps offer 3rd party integration/hooks, like on Gitlab, we could have for example issues/merge requests/commits etc. reported via the API in the Activity Stream/Notifications

Major features missing from main code base, but available with 3rd party mods or workarounds

  • Online Help (not d.tw.o)-dthacker / marclaporte: can you explain a little more?
  • Have a calculator in the main code base. Either including Mod extcalculator, Mod calculator or another...

Doable via advanced configuration

And should be a lot easier. Ex.: via Profile

  • Online Store (out-of-the-box solution like PrestaShop)
  • Event Management system : while most of this can be done by using the wiki, calendar and user trackers, it's too difficult for someone new to Tiki. Added to Use Cases
  • E-democracy system (we have polls and such but it's not the same as a full-fledged voting/election system)
  • Learning Management features like Moodle (gradebook, class management, etc.) though Tiki does have some 3rd party mods for this

Incomplete features

Please Add to Wishlist instead

  • External Authentication
    • Interface with SiteMinder (http://www.ca.com) (similar to InterTiki, except yield to SiteMinder for authentication as an enterprise-wide intranet authenticator)
  • Debian and Ubuntu Packaging Team
  • VMware and Xen virtual appliances
  • Trackbacks in blogs


See also: Interesting Features from other Web apps

Alias

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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