Features / Usability

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 29 May 2010 10:00 GMT-0000 posts: 4656

Here are a couple of examples.

You can go to http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Search Bugs and click "filter" to see a "classic" example of trackers.

At reaxmusic.com, trackers are used for inputting and storing data on bands, venues, (Florida) community events and so on. This page - http://reaxmusic.com/skipper's%20smokehouse - is an example of how the tracker information is displayed using a "pretty tracker" method (a template holding tracker variables is made with a wiki page). See doc.tikiwiki.org for more information on that.

-- Gary

Posted by Pascal St-Jean 29 May 2010 13:33 GMT-0000 posts: 153

Gary's link to teh Dev site is a classic "Bug Tracking" scenario. The great thing about Trackers is that they have evolved into a full form building application.

Here is a link to some forms that use "Pretty Trackers" In other words Tiki also allows you to easily style for forms as well. There is also options to add in "Workflow" or "Logic" to your forms.

http://jimwatson.ca/Volunteer-en
http://jimwatson.ca/requestsign-en
http://jimwatson.ca/endorse-en

There are many other examples but these are some of the newer ones and I know that others have done some incredible work with Trackers but they are on private sites. Difficult to demo.

I hope this gives you a good glimpse as to what Tiki Trackers can accomplish.

Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 29 May 2010 17:22 GMT-0000 posts: 3665

You can use Trackers to create simple "Contact Us" forms (http://twbasics.keycontent.org/contact+us ) as well as tables that present/display previously collected data (http://twbasics.keycontent.org/Contributors#Credits_and_Acknowledgments )

HTH,

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Posted by Xavier de Pedro 31 May 2010 09:39 GMT-0000 posts: 1817

Another example:
Barter networks, where we use a tracker for Offerings and another one for Wants.
In action here (in Catalan):

• Offerings: http://intercanvis.net/Ofertes
• Wants: http://intercanvis.net/Demandes

Items are linked from one tracker to the ones in the other which belong to the same user, to ease the task of transactions... (you offer this that I'm interested for, and you are requesting that, which I might have or get for you... etc)

There is also a profile in progress for that which you can test at least this basic behavior already (and in English :
http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/Barter

HTH