History: UserPageedtandi

I am experimenting with Tiki in a small group within an organisation.

Here is a list of the issues we have with Tiki:

1) On Forums, the 'forward to email address' feature does not use a template. Consequently, it is not possible to put a URL link into the mail message body. It is not possible to work around this using a special user that watches forum topics because of the sheer number of topics and additional topics are not automatically watched.

2) There should be an option to allow the creator of a topic to automatically be a watcher of that topic.

3) It is not possible to embed images into Forum posts. A poor workaround is to use attachments.

4) Forum notification templates should have URLs in the default templates. Is it not obvious? How does one get the topic into the URL?

5) There is no printer friendly format for FAQs. Some answers can be quite big and people want to print individual answers. IE does a very bad job of printing FAQs.

6) Trackers are hard to use. One of the biggest issue I have is that the text boxes do not format according to the wiki tags.

7) General editing :- Is it not possible to insert smileys and other tags at the current cursor position?

8) General editing :- many of the entry and editing windows are too small, in particular Forums, Trackers and FAQs. Wiki and Blogs are OK.

9) It would be good if there was some way of e-mailing new topics and topic entries to a forum. What happens is that an e-mail conversation starts off quite simply and innocently, but subsequently ballons into a monster issue. At some point, the conversation needs to be widened and recorded. Ideally one would like to create a new topic by forwarding the e-mail to a known address that creates a new topic. The conversation can then continue on the forum. It makes the use of Tiki forums more condusive.

11) Tiki performance is not great. The ionCube PHP Accelerator fails on certain operations running Tiki on Apache 2. It almost doubles the response time for pages and operations that work. I'd like to use it, if only it would work reliably.

12) The temp directory fills up with zero sized files. This requires manual maintenance periodically.

13) Tiki templates and URLs are full of the word 'Tiki'. In fact 'tiki' cannot be removed from the URLs because the pages are named this way. When it comes to presenting portals, it is undesirable to have the underlying product advertise itself. The portal should be presenting the name/brand of its owner.

14) The creator of forum topic does not have ithe capability to edit their own first forum post. They need to be assigned admin rights to do so!

15) Printing of large multi-page blogs does not work in mozilla 1.4. IE 5.5 is OK! Is there anything that can be done here?