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User_Trackers

User trackers is a powerful and flexible feature but it's tricky to setup. A profile will help.

The profile should have a few common fields (First name, Last name, ICQ, etc) and be setup so that people fill these in at login.

Please see doc: User tracker

This profile requires this fix:

And thus will presumably only work for Tiki 3.2 and up.


Features

YAML
preferences:
 allowRegister: y  # Allow users to create new accounts
 feature_mytiki: y
 feature_userPreferences: y
 feature_trackers: y
 userTracker: y
 validateUsers: n # This is slowing us down as we build the profile


User tracker definition

YAML
objects:
 -
  type: tracker
  ref: user_tracker
  data:
   name: Users
   description: Information about users
   default_status: open
   show: [ creation_date, modification_date, list_modification_date ]
   allow: [ creator_modification, one_item_per_user]
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: login
  data:
   name: login
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: user
   flags: [ searchable, public, list, mandatory, link ]
   order: 10
   options: 1
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_name
  data:
   name: Name
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 20 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_business-name
  data:
   name: Business Name
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 30 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_short-description
  data:
   name: Short Description
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 40 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_long-description
  data:
   name: Long Description
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_area
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 50 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_profession
  data:
   name: Profession
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_area
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 60 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_products
  data:
   name: Products
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_area
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 70 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_services
  data:
   name: Services
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_area
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 80 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_bio
  data:
   name: Bio
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_area
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 90 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_comments
  data:
   name: Comments
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_area
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 100 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_street-address
  data:
   name: Street Address
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 110 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_city
  data:
   name: City
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 120 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_state
  data:
   name: State
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 130 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_zip-code
  data:
   name: Zip Code
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 140 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_country
  data:
   name: Country
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: country
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 150
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_email
  data:
   name: Email
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 160 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_website
  data:
   name: Website
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 170 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_primary-phone
  data:
   name: Primary Phone
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 180 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_secondary-phone
  data:
   name: Secondary Phone
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 190 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_facebook
  data:
   name: Facebook page
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ searchable, public, list ]
   order: 200
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_skypeid
  data:
   name: SkypeID
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public, mandatory ]
   order: 21
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_icq
  data:
   name: ICQ
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 220 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_msn
  data:
   name: MSN
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 230 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_aol
  data:
   name: AOL
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 240 
 -
  type: tracker_field
  ref: user_yahoo
  data:
   name: Yahoo
   tracker: $user_tracker
   type: text_field
   flags: [ public ]
   order: 250




Todo

  • Make sure "Only one item per user or IP" is assigned in tracker

Adding module

This is a box on the side which permits quick access to one's user tracker.

YAML
objects:
 -
  type: module
  data:
   name: usergroup_tracker
   position: right
   order: 1
   groups: [ Registered ]


Group

This part is an attempt to correspond the Registered group to the newly created user_tracker but it's not working. fixed in 3.1?

YAML
permissions:
 Members:
  description: members of the association
  include: [ Registered ]
  user_tracker: $user_tracker   #and once this work, we need to tell the system about which field ID to connect to
  user_tracker_field: $login # On a clean install, the following both should be at "1"



Later: add registration_fields






Add post-install instructions


This will include: User_Trackers_include_wiki_page with post-install instructions

YAML
instructions: User_Trackers
preferences:
  enable: [ feature_wiki ]
objects:
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: User_Trackers_include_wiki_page
    data:
      name: User_Trackers 
      description: What needs to be done
      lang: en
      content: wikicontent:User_Trackers_include_wiki_page



Todo

  • Make my profile wiki page with {TRACKER(trackerId=>1, showmandatory=>y view=user)} {TRACKER}


Give tiki_p_create_tracker_items to Registered so they may use this page, and avoid the need to first need to go to tiki-view_tracker_item.php?view=+user


Page last modified on Wednesday 09 of June, 2010 12:23:01 UTC