Loading...
 
Skip to main content

Features / Usability

Forum List Topic List

 
Thread actions
Print this page
  • Print all pages

    • Help Requested

    Posted by Syren

    Hello all -

    I'm very new to using Tiki Wiki and it took me about four install/un-installs to get it figured out. A couple of the themes that come with the package locked me out of the site completely, as did a feature or two.

    Anyways, this is what I want to have my Tiki set up like, but I'm having a little trouble in getting some of the things figured out. Even after reviewing documentations and the forums here.

    1. Non-registered users should be able to view everything on the site. Right now, they can't. It tells them they have to register or login. I renamed the groups that already existed in the Tiki. With the Display Modules to all groups always checked, it wouldn't display them at all to anyone. I had to leave that checked and assign each to the groups.

    2. Registered users should be able to create their own blogs. Right now, it only allows me (admin) to create blogs.

    3. Banners. I have it set up, but I can't get the dang things to appear on the site.

    4. Some users are experiencing difficulty when logging in. The site says they are providing an invalid username or password when they aren't. If they look to the right at the login box, it shows them as being logged in, but they can't access the rest of the site. They keep getting that same error message. I've had to go into the users account and reset a temporary password for them to use just to login.

    Any help is appreciated 😊 Thank you in advance.

    Reads: 969
    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    The installation problems might mean that things aren't completely set up right, but assuming all the Tiki parts are in place, we can look at possible, uh, operator error. 😉

    > 1. Non-registered users should be able to view everything on the site. Right now, they can't. It tells them they have to register or login. I renamed the groups that already existed in the Tiki.

    I'm not exactly what you mean by this renaming. The Anonymous group and Registered group that come as default Tiki groups are the ones that cover non-registered and registered users. No renaming is needed. As far as I know, no new group designation will correctly handle non-registered visitors. The Anonymous group (as listed on tiki-admingroups.php) is explicitly for non-registered users. You should click on the permissions icon (the key) and add whatever permissions you want, maybe all the "Basic" permissions.

    > With the Display Modules to all groups always checked, it wouldn't display them at all to anyone. I had to leave that checked and assign each to the groups.

    This may be related to the previous problem. Display Modules to all groups always will normally do just that, if things are otherwise configured right.

    > 2. Registered users should be able to create their own blogs. Right now, it only allows me (admin) to create blogs.

    Do you have tiki_p_create_blogs checked for the "Registered" group, and are your registered users members of the Registered group? (I keep wondering what you meant by "renaming" the groups that came with Tiki. This group is a default and shouldn't/can't be renamed. You can make a new group and assign membership in it to all registered users and give the group the perms normally assigned to the Registered group, but making this would be redundant since Registered exists from the start.)

    > 3. Banners. I have it set up, but I can't get the dang things to appear on the site.

    Did you put the banner tag (something like {banner zone=page_top}) in a template or a module? (Actually I've had trouble with banners, too, with some recent Tiki versions — what version are you using?)

    > 4. Some users are experiencing difficulty when logging in. The site says they are providing an invalid username or password when they aren't. If they look to the right at the login box, it shows them as being logged in, but they can't access the rest of the site. They keep getting that same error message. I've had to go into the users account and reset a temporary password for them to use just to login.
    >

    This will change soon, but for current Tikis the log-in name is case-sensitive. Are the users strictly using the same upper and lower case as when registered when they log in? Just one possibility.

    -- Gary - zukakakina.comQuestion

    Posted by Syren

    You've been a huge help, thank you 😊 The only thing that I haven't done is adding that coding to the template being used for the banners. I think I'll hold off on that for a while. Thanks again!

    Oh yes, I'm using version 1.9.2

    The only other issue that I have now is when a registered user submits an article. Instead of showing the users chosen avatar, it shows the admin's avatar.