Features / Usability

Posted by Phil MacGovern 03 Feb 2005 02:43 GMT-0000 posts: 32

I implemented this exact system on my site. We have customer-accessible documentation stored as Wiki pages of which they get to see the last 'released' version.

Implementing it went sort of like this...

1. Create a new security right 'tiki_p_view_unreleased' and gave it only to people inside the company
2. Create a new security right 'tiki_p_release_pages'
3. Add an integer column to tiki_pages called 'released'
4. Add a button to the tiki-page_bar.tpl (I think) that appears for people with the 'tiki_p_release_pages' right
5. Handle the submit request with 'release=1' in the _REQUEST variables
6. Modify an 'update_page' type function to set the value of the column
7. Modify tiki-index.php to check the 'tiki_p_view_unreleased' right versus the page's released status - if latest version is not released, get the last released version in the page's history; if no released versions, show appropriate error message
8. output 'released' status to smarty to template can show status

I think I also adjusted the 'show_history' page to add a column for release status. Let me know if you need any more input...