Features / Usability

Posted by Damian Parker 28 Oct 2005 08:12 GMT-0000 posts: 2881

> Using Polaris. Have searched but can't find:

You should upgrade to 1.9.1.1 for major security reasons.

> #How to cause a tracker to automatically assign a sequential item number, i.e., for a bug tracking system where each item has its own unique number.

Use TrackerId

> #How to cause a tracker to automatically record an item's creation date without using the pull down feature. I.e., I want an automatically created date that is non-editable by a user.

Think this is fixed in 1.9.1.1

> #Tracker plug-in described in other posts. It is supposed to allow creation and formatting of a tracker form using the wiki module, then assigning the form to a tracker. Got a link to the plug-in and hopefully to its documentation?
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Its in Sirius the 1.9.1.1 release

Damian

Posted by sylvie greverend 28 Oct 2005 13:31 GMT-0000 posts: 1092

> Using Polaris. Have searched but can't find:
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> #How to cause a tracker to automatically assign a sequential item number, i.e., for a bug tracking system where each item has its own unique number.

trackerId is the tracker id. To have the item id use itemId. So you can reference a item with this unique id . Ex: tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=144
But so far I know you can't have a field automatically fill up with this id. If you are using the trackers with mirror tables, I suppose you can do whatever you want and use the key as a field.
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> #How to cause a tracker to automatically record an item's creation date without using the pull down feature. I.e., I want an automatically created date that is non-editable by a user.
You can display the creation date when you list the tracker items (in the admin -> tracker, you have an option), but so far I know you can't fill up a field with this date automatically (the problem will be different with the rtacker with mirror tables)

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> #Tracker plug-in described in other posts. It is supposed to allow creation and formatting of a tracker form using the wiki module, then assigning the form to a tracker. Got a link to the plug-in and hopefully to its documentation?

All the documentaion is in French http://fr.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Formulaires

sylvie

Posted by marbux 29 Oct 2005 01:52 GMT-0000 posts: 29

Thank you all, very much. I think that with your help I have figured out some of it. I missed the checkbox for inserting the date and did a date creation checkbox. Do any of you know the documentation well enough to direct me to some pointers for working with mirror tables? I'm not doing very well finding that using tw.o site search.

On being able to automagically increment numbers in trackers and tracker items, I can imagine a counter module being useful in the context of other Tiki apps as well, with an ability to pass parameters such as increment/decrement, beginning number, etc.

On helping with the dev work, I'd be happy to if there is a role for someone without significant coding skills. Perhaps helping with developing a spec and documentation?