Features / Usability

Posted by Yuri 10 Jan 2023 20:20 GMT-0000 posts: 4

Thank you @Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist and @Jonny Bradley for your replies

What I need is indeed closest to the templated groups (organic groups) suggestion of Jonny where users can create their own groups and set group permissions as open, closed or secret.
I agree with Bernard that careful planning is needed, maybe Tiki has published an example of such planning steps?
And I'm not sure how to draw a diagram that would explain the setup better.
Essentially, I'm good with a basic organic groups feature and allowing that to become more advanced in time.

Authenticated users with the 'create group' permissions, can create groups

A group has one group admin (by default the creator of the group) that can:

• Add / invite member
• Add custom membership fields
• Change the group permissions type (open/closed/private)
• Create category (as part of a group taxonomy)

Group members can:

• Create and edit group content (page, wiki page, media, project, task),
• Can edit group content of other group members. (This may be an optional setting, to keep documents editable only by the creator, or a co-editor)

Open group:

• Group entity is visible by every user.
• Group content is visible by all users of the website, but only group members can add edit content

Closed group:

• Group entity is visible by every user.
• Group content is only visible by group members, only group members can add/edit content

Private group:

• The group is is only visible by group members. Membership by invitation.
• Group content can only be viewed, created and edited by group members.

Looking at TikiWiki, I see some challenges for me:

• Create optimal user experience: The end users (which are group members) need the group menu always in sight on every group content page, meaning they can easily navigate in the group from every group content page. The current workspaces feature is technically present, but does not give a workgroup user experience to me, is confusing.
• The organic groups feature is not available as an 'out of the box' template, and thus I need to build that manually, and make the page components like menu and user actions block, where they appear etc. Not having an example template means that investing time to try this out, is a risk.
• Tasks are possible through the tracker feature, but needs polishing to make working with tasks and task lists user friendly, if possible with kanban view.
• All needs to become mobile friendly.

If any of you have an example of an existing project or website that comes close to networked project management or collaborative organic groups, please let me know.

Thank you!