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History: Welcome to Tiki Profiles

Preview of version: 128

Tiki has a lot of features and covers a wide range of use cases. Because of this, it is very difficult to pick sensible defaults which are ideal "out of the box" for everyone. Profiles solve this problem by storing and sharing different configurations, feature sets, permissions schemes and pre-made examples of some of the more complicated features. This addresses the The Paradox of Choice.

Nelson & Pascal presenting profiles at FSOSS 2009, in Canada





Watch Marc introduce profiles at Tikifest Portugal 2008


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Benefits

Profiles offer the following benefits to Tiki:
  • Managed in wiki pages (collaborative, version history, etc.)
  • Can be used not only on a fresh install of a Tiki, but also on an existing instance.
  • Apply one or many, even if they overlap (the last one applied wins if there are any conflicts)
  • Profiles can include other profiles (several small profiles making a large one)
  • Not just for settings, but also for data
  • Since there is no extra code, can be designed for very specific, long tail uses or Vertical Markets. We can have hundreds of profiles for an out-of-the-box experience, with a single code-base!
  • Permits power users & admins to share their experience
  • Can even be used to support reporting of bugs

How it Works

Each profile is a configuration patch that can be applied on top of any TikiWiki instance. Profiles will allow to change configurations in a TikiWiki instance and create various objects. As of now, the most important object types are available and more will be added as needed.

Profiles include Handlers for the following:
  • Any of over 1000 preferences (features, settings and options)
  • Groups & permissions (over 200 permissions)
  • Modules (over 100!)
  • Menus
  • Categories
  • Webservice & Plugin Alias
  • Sample content & additional configurations for
    • Wiki
    • Trackers
    • File Gallery
    • Blogs

Obtaining Profiles

Profiles are stored in repositories on the Internet. Tiki comes with one repository registered for you and you can add more as you like. Profiles are applied directly from the repositories; you simply browse the profiles available at each repository and apply the ones you want.

Applying Profiles

Profiles can be (and typically are) applied during the initial installation and configuration of Tiki as shown here: Starting in Tiki4, the interface has been improved and streamlined. No more profiles at install time, but a nicer profile manager anytime :-)

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Profiles can also be applied at any time after Tiki is installed by following these steps:
  1. Log into Tiki as an administrator
  2. Open the Administration page (click the "Admin Home" link in the menu)
  3. Click on the Profiles link
  4. Show profiles available in the registered repositories by clicking List. You can filter the list of profiles by name, type and repository if you like.
  5. Click on the name of the profile you want to apply. Details about that profile will be obtained from the repository and displayed for your review.
  6. Click the Apply Now button

Additional Information

These wiki pages contain additional information about creating and using profiles:

Suggestions?

Suggestions and wishes can be added to Profiles Todos

Aliases


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Thu 13 of Jul, 2023 01:36 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Resave home page 155
Thu 16 of Feb, 2023 01:29 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Now a local page 154
Tue 14 of Feb, 2023 03:34 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Tiki Profiles Tester is nice 153
Mon 23 of Apr, 2018 01:29 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte minor fixes 152
Sun 25 of Jun, 2017 11:08 GMT-0000 fastah noba moved this line here: Profiles can bee seen on [https://doc.tiki.org/Profiles|Profiles] page. 151
Sun 25 of Jun, 2017 11:07 GMT-0000 fastah noba moving to proper headline 150
Sun 25 of Jun, 2017 11:05 GMT-0000 fastah noba profiles can bee seen on [https://doc.tiki.org/Profiles|Profiles] page. 149
Sat 15 of Oct, 2016 04:42 GMT-0000 drsassafras spelling and grammer fixes 148
Sat 14 of Feb, 2015 01:08 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Let's try HTML 5 147
Sat 14 of Feb, 2015 01:06 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Flash Video Plugin modified by editor. 146
Sat 14 of Feb, 2015 01:06 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Flash Video Plugin modified by editor. 145
Sat 14 of Feb, 2015 01:05 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Flash Video Plugin modified by editor. 144
Sat 14 of Feb, 2015 01:04 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte Full URL so it works in https. PluginYoutube in 12.x handles this 143
Sat 14 of Feb, 2015 01:03 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte YouTube Plugin modified by editor. 142
Tue 29 of Jul, 2014 23:44 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte hide from view but keep alias 141
Thu 24 of Jul, 2014 20:18 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte YouTube Plugin modified by editor. 140
Sun 15 of Jun, 2014 19:43 GMT-0000 ostreet YouTube Plugin modified by editor. 139
Sun 08 of Dec, 2013 12:41 GMT-0000 Xavier de Pedro video gone since blip.tv cancelled my account, and I can't find the source screencast 138
Wed 20 of Nov, 2013 01:00 GMT-0000 Pascal St-Jean remove blip video that doesn't work anymore 137
Thu 13 of Sep, 2012 15:11 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte remove category 136
Sat 04 of Feb, 2012 21:22 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte switch to English 135
Fri 01 of Apr, 2011 01:30 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte cosmetic 131
Tue 14 of Sep, 2010 01:20 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte cleaner 130
Wed 25 of Aug, 2010 22:38 GMT-0000 luciash d' being 129
Sun 04 of Apr, 2010 00:48 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 128