History: Profiles Todos

Super duper important things

• Add staging & approval here (Pascal, Nelson & Marc)
  • Currently in testing here
    • Staging kicks in even on objects not in "Features Profiles"
      • 6.2 will be just nice for S & A!
    • Staging copy shouldn't ask for language pick fixed
• Swap all uses of images in profiles to use images in the app (Pascal)
  • There are plenty of nice images in famfamfam

Fun stuff

• get http://profiles.tiki.org/tiki-mindmap.php?page=Feed_aggregator to work

Bugs

• site_width_3x not possible to include wikicontent as a preference (fixed in 3.1?)
• tiki-lastchanges.php doesn't show things done by profiles
• At Personal_Blog_and_Profile, nonums: y is converted to nonums=1 commit done, need to merge to trunk
• Articles Publish Date & Expiration Date are set to "now" on creation. Still need to push to 1 year, instead of 1 month
• File Gallery inclusion is not working workaround: All dependencies must be regrouped
  • Even this seems to be unreliable (or we don't know how to do properly). We'll stop using in Featured profiles.

Todo

Technical

• Add "Only one item per user or IP" (oneUserItem) to Tracker Handler so User_Trackers can work. done in 5.1
• Profile plugin
  • Should add the name of the profile you are just about to install
  • Should show offer user input
• Add missing handlers as we need them in an attempt to support all of Tiki's data types.
  • Spreadsheet
  • Create Calendar
  • FreeTag handler
  • Poll handler
• Need wiki-parsed and title for module handler, to be used in RSS_Examples, IRC_Chat and the menus
• When installing a profile, there is a huge list. There is a text box to filter by category, but it would be a lot easier if it was a drop-down menu.
• Part of the profile should be a post-installation message, which could be in some cases a link. Done see: Instructions
  • For example, a wiki page (which I presumably just created), with the next steps to follow. This will help when handlers are not yet created.
• Profile list has no pagination so it only shows first 25 results
• If a wiki page exists, profile should provide a meaningful error message (instead of Handler failure: Tiki_Profile_InstallHandler_WikiPage) or just replace it (keeping version history of course) Now possible to replace or append to wiki pages
• perhaps this is the same thing as above, but when loading a profile on their site the user just clicks on a broken profile and won't get any clues about what is or isn't happening (being nothing) and why.
• After a "forget past installation" or "An error occurred during the profile validation. This profile cannot be installed.", there should be a button right there to attempt an installation
  • Reinstall is possible in one step (good), but it doesn't provide the profile validation, so if the re-installed profile is broken, we get blank page instead of helpful error message.
  • Geoff wrote:

    But I decided to re-run the profile, and second time around it did correctly flag that the profile had already been applied BUT when I used the "Forget and Re-apply" it did not ask me to fill in any custom fields and simply applied the defaults - overwriting my previous customisation. I can imagine a new user wanting to re-run because first time round they didn't really understand what the custom fields did - and re-running the whole thing would offer an easy way to get it right second time round.
    
    luciash d' being 🧙 wrote:

    I think this is fixed in trunk (at least it works for me there) but not in 5.x
    

Non technical

• Except for Featured Profiles, remove all profiles that are for 4.x and 5.x so we can focus our energies on 6.x and 7.x
• Improve Profiles_in_installer
• Migrate / update all relevant profile related content on doc:profiles dev:profile manager tw:TikiProfilesDev
• Work on Profile_Ideas
• Change all remaining references in the code and documentation. A profile is applied, instead of installed. Install implies that additional code needs to be downloaded.
  • well, "installed" can also imply just downloading new information and set that information in place (that information can be PHP code, or "Tiki code", i.e., tiki(wiki) syntax - yaml, etc - to do things on your Tiki installation). So for me (thinking in terms of an end-user), no problems with "installed", but it's ok also if it wants to be changed for "applied" (subtle difference). My 2 cents. (Xavi)
• Profile plugin:: Start using Ex.: in the admin doc, click here to go in debug mode, click here to leave

Nice to have

• In installer, when no Internet connection, tell people they could have profiles if they were connected
• Order in profiles page: "filter" should be below "list"
• Use TRIM to deploy profile demo sites
• "Save current configuration as a profile" (not sure if cost/benefit is there)
• The possibility to ask for data which is to be used as variables in the profile (Something interactive)
  • Ex.: ask the person for a username and the wizard-like thingy uses this information to put them in the Admins group.
  • The Wizard asks the name of the blog This was done, worked and is now broken, so now in bugs instead of wishlist
  • The Wizard asks if you want A or B. This would permit simple variants to a profile without forking it.
• A list/log of loaded profiles locally in the Profiles Admin page, so we already know what has been loaded.
• Report/diff on my configuration vs a certain profile (only for preferences)
  • This could help with Troubleshooting because people could report what they have changed compared to the standard bare-bones install.
• something on this site that verifies whether a profile works or not?
  • Like a batch test all profiles?
    • Would be nice to run at save page time on profiles.tiki.org
    • Do-able but not a priority
• Once you have installed a profile you can't install again (even if profile has improved and you may have deleted the stuff created by the profile). Maybe an override option would be good. Done
• Multiple YAML sections per page, to facilitate readability Done
• Additional settings for groups, like
  • Group Homepage
  • Users Information Tracker (should be variables of newly created groups, needed for User_Trackers)
  • Users Information Tracker Fields (should be variables of newly created groups)
  • User can assign to the group himself
• Something to help editors detect if there is a problem with the current YAML syntax, ex.: syntax highlighter. Do browser-based YAML editors exist?
• Maybe a profile creator with a bunch of little predefined actions. Like Automator do in Mac OS X. All done without the knowledge of the YAML syntax or even PHP.
• Submit instructions/motivators to share new profiles with the community.

Needs thinking about for a good solution

• Profile plugin
  • Since profile plugin, like all risky plugins, needs to be validated, the message should be better (it's normal on clean install or upgrade)
  • How to have safe, pre-signed plugins?
• Files
  • To get images via profiles

Questions

• In tiki-admin.php?page=profiles, should the profile field be a drop-down?
  • I don't think so. It's a search field for filter the list. The drop down would contain too many items to be usable after a short period of time.
• Should the plugins support line breaks to increase readability? (example)
  • Looks like line breaks are back in branches/3.0
• Is there way to "uninstall profile"? I only see "Forget Past Installation" but this doesn't uninstall (for me anyway — Gary).
  • No there is not, but you could create a profile which turns off all the features :-) (ML)
  • And now, when you forget, it's to re-install.
• Perhaps bundled profiles should no longer be in installer.
  • They were there because old profiles were on install only
  • Would simplify code of installer
  • We now have better UI (needs to be even better still) to showcase "featured profiles"
  • It forces people to make a choice which they may not be ready to do.

Unsolveable or long term

Limitation of system log

• Profile Rollback

Limitation of wiki parser

• The plugin editor, when used on YAML, messes up the YAML formatting by deleting some line breaks or by changing the parameters I turned off the plugin editor on this site
• Should we use plugin aliases to make nicer/cleaner YAML blocks?
  • LP says not yet, because it wouldn't work

Long term

Profiles offline

• Perhaps bare-bones install should be a profile which is added via SVN and bundled in install? (because Internet connection is needed to use other profiles)
• Having a Barebones_Profiles would facilitate removing a module, or updating parameters on a module.
  • Jonny added one in Tiki5
• Sylvie wrote:

  Is there a way to use local profiles, profiles that I write on my local ( I can not have httprequest working on my local since my last system upgrade - it is why I am looking for alternative solution
  
• To be able to remove modules (ex.: remove login)