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    • Tiki for small academic workgroup

    Posted by mat-in

    Hi (again).

    Was a long time since I was here, my Tikiwiki setup (private portal, wiki, downlaod galleries) is working fine. Now a new quest(ion) arises:

    Can we use Tikiwiki for our Workgroup at university, too?

    We need to:

    Manage SOPQuestion in a quite strict way (wo is allowed to write them, who is allowed to review them before publications, date and timestamps, older versions, etc.). We need to print thos protocols for new people in the lab and keep them up to date. Instead of the "just edit the word file and save under a new date" practice we currently have, I'd like to convince the lab of using as wiki to keep track of versions, easy editing, strict rights management...

    Do you think this will work?

    What other reasons (different group calenders to reservate laboratory equipment for a specific time, for example?) could you provide to convince them?

    Thanks a lot!

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    Yes, Tiki should work well for that purpose. The wiki has versioning (page history) and permissions can be granted to control what users have access to.

    One issue is how well your users will take to wiki editing, since it has its own syntax. Tiki does have a wysiwyg editor, which may suit the users better. You could check out the current demo to see how that editor works and if its suitable for your documents and user abilities and preferences.

    As far as I know, the calendar should be useful, but I don't use it much myself so can't say in detail.

    -- Gary


    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    Permissions in Tiki are assigned to groups (Admin, Registered, and Anonymous are the default groups; any number of groups can be added freely according to the site's needs), and to objects (pages, content categories, galleries, forums, blogs, etc.), in a finely granular way. Please see http://doc.tikiwiki.org/PermissionsQuestion for details. In short, yes, I'd say the capability is similar in Tiki but much more powerful.

    -- Gary


    Posted by winjeel
    I'm thinking of doing something similar, but with an open community (of academics). Are there permission levels assigned to users similar to PHPBB or SMF with Admin, Moderator, Member, and Guest ranks?
    Posted by mat-in

    The Permission System works very well in tiki (allowed to see, allowed to edit, allowed to print, etc.). The only thing i was unsure about is if you could have some kind of review process:

    User X writes a page, User Y gives it a short look before publication.

    And the Calenders are still a question. I'd realy like to have an online schedule for our ressources like the research-microscope.

    Take a look at the Nikon crowd (you can look at the schedule of the different microscopes without logging in):
    http://www.zoo.uni-heidelberg.de/ocf/select_resource.php?v=1Question


    Posted by mat-in
    • bump*


    There is news about this. I did set up an intranet LAMP server with tikiwiki and am comparing it to eGroupware that another group is using already.

    While Tiki has the far more powerful wiki features (templates, backlinks, monitoring wiki pages), it is lacking some essential Calender features:

    eGroupware has Ressource and User based Calenders, so each user has his/her own calender of events / things to do and there are calenders for equipment like workstations, to "book a timeslot" for working on the machine. You could for example book a timeslot on a workstation and then block some time in your personal calender afterwards to think about the results, both would show up in your personal one, but only the timeslot booked would be blocked for other users on the workstation.
    Also, you can make appointments / find the best date for an event. eGroupware would then search all the participating users personal calenders for the optimum timeslot.

    Last (but quite important), eGroupware is already set up, to auth the users against the existing userbase Active Directory, so no extra accounts have to be created and no extra passwords have to be remembered.

    Any ideas how to (ab)use the tiki calenders to simulate some of the features of eGroupware?

    EDIT: I found the AD-login subforum, but people only seem to ask questions there. Where can I find a how-to on setting it up? There is only some facebook login stuff in the admin section of Tiki 7.1