Re: New tiki user, some questions/issues with my install
Hello GothicWizard,
I try to get some answers together for you:
Imho that seems to be depending on your server settings.
Usually when I install a Tiki on an average shared hosting, the notifications (including the registration/validation eMails) just work.
So you have to ask your provider about if sendmail is installed on their server. If yes, you could post the settings here. Maybe somebody had an idea what was going wrong if he/she sees the settings.
You have to activate "WYSIWYG".
yourdomain.com/tiki-admin.php?page=wysiwyg
You can re-arrange the modules here:
yourdomain.com/tiki-admin_modules.php
In Tiki modules are containers to be applied "around" the content area and modules caontain all sorts of navigation, calendars, listings etc..
Since several Tiki versions you cannot re-arrange the content of the main application menu. This is to keep a safe backup for the case, you had trouble with missconfigurations.
You are talking about "modules", but in Tiki taht is named "features" - so we need to respect the wording of the context we are discussing to prevent missunderstandings.
You can set this here:
yourdomain.com/tiki-admin.php?page=general (third tab "Navigation")
preference: "Use Tiki feature as homepage" (choose a feature in the drop down).
In case you want to create a newswebsite alike appearance with columns, fields, and such, you may want to consider to keep using the wiki feature, but design the HomePage by using so called "WikiPlugins", which are code snippets with a huge number of options and parameters to extend the WikiSyntax. Check this out: PluginDIV, PluginArticles, PluginArticle, PluginModules, etc. and this page: Bootstrap Grid in Wiki Syntax.
You should under no circumstances use the "Image Gallery feature"! This feature is deprecated and only kept in Tiki for the reason of compatibility.
You should use the "File Gallery feature"!
For embedding media files from the file galleries you can use the PluginMediaPlayer.
For embedding files from YouTube you can use the PluginYoutube
Yes, I do understand. Categories can be used for advanced stuff. For example you can create arbitrary category trees and use the one cateory tree for permission management, another category tree for filtering content and so on. The sheer number of possibilities might making it a bit confusing for Newbie-Users.
On the other hand, if you want to create really advanced applicatons, you might want to either get the knowledge and experience over times or hire a consultant.
I am sure, that the community can help you quite a lot when you struggle at specific general issues, although we have not the capacity to voluntarily develop individual projects for Newbie-Users who not yet have invested the time. It is a good idea to start with less advanced use cases and then build u step by step - kind of grow together with your Tiki ;-) .
This is quite easy:
I) you have created the appropriate groups for your users.
II) you go to yourdomain.com/tiki-edit_categories.php
There you create one category for your permissions and name it for example "permissions".
Then you create a second category (or if you want, create several categories) but make sure to set it (them) as subcategory of the one you want to use as start point of the permissions. So "permissions" is the parent category of those categories which you will use for category permissions.
If you have set it up right, you find a little arrow besides the wrench symbol left besides the first category you created.
Voilà you created your first category tree.
III) you stay in tiki-edit_categories.php and
Open the category tree (by clicking on the little arrow left besides the wrench) and click on the wrench left besides the subcategory you created.
There you find a link "permissions" as option to edit the category. Click on that edit the permissions for the group you want. These permissons will apply to the group for objects which are applied wth this category. Apply especially the appropriate forum permissions for a specific group and a specific forum.
IV) Now you go to edit the forum and apply the above edited category to this forum.
You can do this here: yourdomain.com/tiki-admin_forums.php . Find a listing of the existing forums and there the wrench very right besdes he forum. Click on the wrench and there on "edit". Now you can apply the category to this specific forum and the general permissions do not apply any more, but instead the category permissions.
Hint: please avoid to use object ermissions and in case you use objectpermissions somewhere, write it down to not forget about them!
Best is to do Group permissions with Categories.
Best regards,
Torsten
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