Features / Usability

Hi Arthur

Thanks for your post.

I have been a user of Tikiwiki since 2009. I used version 1.9 until I upgraded to 9.2 (stupid me) and I got the wysiwyg in 1.9 to work quite easily.

The problem with this whole product is that it is trying to be everything to everybody, when most people probably only require a few parts. Unfortunately, the parts that are heavily used, e.g. structures and TOC's are woefully inadequate in functionality.

Wysiwyg does work (sort of) in 9.2. It’s just that it comes up with missing icons and wants (sometimes??) to convert your html to wikisyntax. This is either because they have some stripped down version of CKEdit or because they have some wacky PHP code that interferes with your HTML. It's just that there are so many undocumented settings that it’s almost impossible to figure out what’s happening and to get it working correctly.

I actually got tiki to save my page in HTML code and HTML is displayed in CKeditor’s source button, but as posted before, I still have about 1000 pages that show that actual html on the rendered tiki page.

The funny thing is that when I press the Tiki edit button, the page displays correctly in CKEditor. But if I press the source button in CKEditor’s toolbar, it shows my HTML converted to wikisyntax.

I WILL get this to work with 9.2 but, barring any help from the tiki gurus (sic), I will probably spend countless hours getting this crap to work when I should be focusing on content.

Stay tuned since I will hopefully post the way to do it.