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
-
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
objects:
-
ref: User_Trackers_Permissions
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