Re: new user input
> ok first time even discovering tikiwiki. great product, HOWEVER, impossible to find SIMPLE answers. I have to wade through hundreds of documentation and STILL DO NOT get the answer I want.
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> for 2 weeks, trying to figure out the ...page... Wiki page pagination has not been enabled. or ... page .... function for making multi-pages w/in a tiki article. try searching for that via this site and see what you get.
Did you ask in the forums? I recall one question about that function but the user didn't see the effect because he was only checking the preview and not the saved page. Was that you? As I recall, the post was answered.
Did you look carefully at the Tiki editpage itself? "Multi-page pages: use ...page... Wiki page pagination has not been enabled. to separate pages" is item 6 in the Wiki Help notes at the page bottom. Did you type "...page... Wiki page pagination has not been enabled." somewhere in your text and save the page to see what happens? I figured out quite a bit about Tiki just by doing simple experiments.
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> as such I can't recommend this to users who are interested in an all in one solution. free sometimes ain't good. this would have been a great slap in the face for services charges and providing lesser quality. but when I can't find answers to the ACTUAL features "out of the box" it means 1 of 2 things:
Out of the box is a moving target, I'm afraid. There are more people developing the program than writing the docs.
> the persons writing the information are NOT users
The persons writing the information ARE users, and often developers as well so they don't have much time to handle support. But what I see is that they are very willing to help when they are asked a question. I think the main bottleneck is that they don't necessarily visit these forums much and IRC can be hit-and-miss depending when you're on line. Some patience and perseverance is definitely needed.
> the persons writing are writing from the standpoint of they'll understand what I mean. yeah right!
Sorry, but I think the people who write the docs and answer questions are sincerely trying to do the best they can. Keep in mind they are volunteers doing this because they like the program and want to help the community. They/we are well aware that the docs continue to need improvement, but it's slow-going.
> I spend all day answering questions and figuring out people's problems, I don't have weeks to spend to find answers to problems DIRECTLY related to ACTUAL features.😕
Tiki has evolved rapidly and the documentation has lagged behind the feature growth. The documentation therefore is a work in progress and the "support staff" is people taking time out of their busy schedules to help others. Needless to say, if this isn't satisfactory, you have the alternative of paying for a commercial program.
BTW, a question about the MySQL error you quote in your other post was also responded to by a developer in the last day or so, as it has been in the past. Don't know if that was your question or someone else's.
I don't mean to make excuses, but the criticisms should be kept in perspective.
-- Gary - themes.tw.o