ProjectForum Support: Older Questions 2005

Posted at Jan 04/2005 02:47 PM:
[Sharon]: We are using Enterprise version, testing demo still. Can site admininstrators enable "search" to search across groups? If so, I'm assuming that only results from groups the searcher belongs to would come up? Searching across groups is not present at the moment.

Posted at Jan 14/2005 11:28 AM:
[Dennis]: I am attempting to add a 'live bookmark' for one of my groups to my Firefox browser (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0). When I load the URL for the RSS feed <http://www.domain_name.com:3455/URL_prefix/admin/rss.xml>; I don't see an orange 'live bookmark' icon at the bottom right of my Firefox browser window, per Firefox description of live bookmarks at <http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks.html>;. What am I missing??? Have you tried following the directions on that page about adding the live bookmark manually? Forums don't contain the bit of HTML in the main pages that would allow Firefox to detect the RSS feed automatically Thanks, did so and was able to add live bookmark.

Posted at Jan 14/2005 11:06 PM:
[patrick]: do the free version support international ? No difference between the free and regular versions in this regard

Posted at Jan 17/2005 01:30 PM:
[Dennis]: From where does ProjectForum obtain the time used in time stamps (e.g., under 'Changes' heading for time page last modified, for time comment was posted, etc.)? Currently from the machine that PF is running on.

Posted at Jan 20/2005 12:44 PM:
[Brian]:Is it possible to import an existing website and make it editable through ProjectForum. I work as a technical writer (documenting software), where I can see a need to distribute our online help projects within the company for review by the developers and other experts. Thanks Not directly, though you can certainly copy and paste text. There is also an option in the forums to enable HTML formatting, which would allow you to verbatim copy chunks of the original HTML.

Posted at Jan 26/2005 10:39 AM:
[SNi]: Am interested in running this on a Zaurus SL-C3000 ('natch only for personal use). When I try to run the Linux distro I get the following error message (deleted): Any ideas?? Has a V 2.4.20 Linux kernel, is it the fact that it has an arm processor?? Yes, its the processor

Posted at Feb 10/2005 03:32 PM:
Shawn: I have installed the Windows projectforum.exe version, and have been playing around for a couple of days. I have done all of the administration set up. I have also created a group, completed its administration setup, and have populated it with several pages.

Here is my issue: After I log out of the server, the application stops running (DUH, of course! Right?). Using this forum, I noticed that there is a pfconsole.exe I can run as a service instead. This fits my needs much better, but will I have to go through two days of setup steps again? Is there any way to port my current settings from the projectforum.exe version to the pfconsole.exe version? Thanks in advance for any help.

Posted at Feb 11/2005 02:54 PM:
[Vidya]: I am running a test implementation with the demo license. The app is running off my basic laptop box, not a server. I find that I am unable to bring in any RSS feeds. I get the following error message: Could not fetch RSS feed. The port is still closed behind the firewall, could that be the problem? Most likely. Or there may be an error in how you're specifying the RSS feed to import.

Posted at Feb 26/2005 04:24 AM:
[jordibares]: Hi guys! my first post... i want to use project forum and while my web provider seems willing to help they don't provide shell access so i can't start the software (projectforum &) Can i start the projectforum software from a web page? They say they let you call the software from a cgi-bin call. Does it make sense? is that going to give me trouble later? Thanks in advance. No, that's not really going to work. ProjectForum is a long-running program (daemon), whereas CGI programs run quickly then finish. You could either ask them if they're willing to set it up for you (i.e. have them start it), or you may want to look at other options, such as our own hosting service.

Posted at Mar 07/2005 02:18 PM:
Pete Hi, can anyone tell me where the installation instructions are, particularly for linux servers Thanks

Posted at Mar 14/2005 12:34 PM:
[Nathan]: I notice when I logoff my server while ProjectForum is running, after logoff, the application no longer runs. How can I configure it to always run while the server runs, or alternatively configure it in IIS 6.0? See http://www.courseforum.com/howto_service.html -THANKS....THAT'S JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!

Posted at Mar 18/2005 02:03 AM:
[NitPik]: From "How does PF compare?" page: all back end data can be extracted using open source tools (so no lock-in) Details, please. See http://www.projectforum.com/faq.html#datafiles

Posted at Mar 24/2005 11:58 AM:
RE: RSS feeds. We run ProjectForum in SSL and I am told that aggregators like Bloglines can't get to https. Is there a workaround? Not really... unless you have some other piece of software in the middle that takes your RSS feed out of ProjectForum via SSL and then makes it available via straight HTTP

Posted at Mar 30/2005 04:42 AM:
HJ: Am having problems opening files using file:<filename>;. If using IE6, the file opens. If using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2, nothing happens. Anyone got any ideas of how I can get Mozilla to work properly?

Posted at Mar 31/2005 04:03 PM:
[James]: I have a "Project" forum. What format do I use to enter a link to this page as a key page within the project pages contained within the forum. i.e. go up a level?

Posted at Mar 31/2005 04:38 PM:
[James]: its ok, I worked it out. format is (../groupname/forumID)

Posted at Apr 01/2005 07:59 PM:
Also having problems getting file:<shared network file area> to work with Safari on Mac OS X. Works very well with IE6

Posted at Apr 07/2005 01:42 PM:
[pms]: I would like to add a simple graphic that I can make clickable. If I use a drawing app (e.g., Visio, ConceptDraw, PPT) to create an image, then associate URLs to the objects that point to my wiki, then... Well great, I can jump to forum pages from that app. But I can also export the image and image map to HTML. Is there a way that I can use [include: xxx] or something, so that the clickable image appears on a page in ProjectForum? You can embed HTML right into the page; turn this option on in the Group Admin screen, and then put = = =html= = = before and after your HTML code

Posted at Apr 21/2005 08:35 PM:
[Derek Kelly]: We recently purchased PF and I have a question. Is there some easy way to customize & edit the ProjectForum Home page? We are using PF for our Intranet and would like to treat this as the main page for adding announcements, common links, etc. but I see no way of easily doing this. Also, can the page layout be altered? Among other things, the space between the list of groups and the main body text is very wide and we'd like to close that gap for aesthetic reasons.
It would also be nice to be able to post comments to the main PF Home page just like any other.

[Mark]: Some people have done extensive changes to the help page, through extensive use of HTML code in the message of the day area (e.g. see http://www.sytech.org - yes, that is ProjectForum). However, at present this is not easy to do.

[Derek Kelly]: OK, then is there any way I can create an extra group, call it Main or something and relink everything in PF that references "Site Home" to that group? In a standard group I can accomplish everything I need to. I could move all the group links under this Main group, heep the original Site Home hidden from users and only use the original Site Home when I need to add groups by moving it to a non referenced URL and explicitly accessing it when needed for admin purposes. No, not possible now.

Posted at Apr 21/2005 08:43 PM:
[Derek Kelly]: Also, when viewing pages in sub forums the links at the very bottom right do not show the complete path to the document you are viewing...
Example - when viewing a document at the actual path:
Site Home > Customer Service > Customers > Customer #1 > Test Plan
We actually see the link path as:
Site Home > Customer Service > Test Plan
Is there any way to show the complete path?

[Mark]: This is not a full path of links used to get to the document; there can in fact be many different ways to reach a document, because pages in a forum do not form a hierarchy, and there can be arbitrary connections between them. The only hierarchy, which the breadcrumbs at the bottom show, is where the page fits in within the forum.

[Derek Kelly]: Understood, but is there some way to do this? Not at present, no.

Posted at Apr 22/2005 09:31 AM:
[Derek Kelly]: Is there a way to make tables without using html? Not at present. This should be in the next version however.

Posted at Apr 22/2005 12:38 PM:
[Sam Rauch]: Evaluating PF, and have a question about editing a posted file. For instance, if a MS Word file that is linked to a page is edited by someone, and they simply click <Save> when they are done, is that all that is necessary? We *think* we had an issue where someone did just that, but the changes were not reflected in the file pointed to by the page link. No, what is happening is when you click on the link, the file is downloaded to the local PC, and editing takes place there. The changed file must still be uploaded back to ProjectForum, to replace the old one. This step doesn't happen automatically.

Posted at Apr 23/2005 11:02 AM:
[Trudo Engels]: I understood that there is web-based theme editor in version 4.3. Sorry, can't find it. Is there a special link? thanx Available via the Site Administration area... click on 'Custom Themes' from the choices at the top of the screen. More info at http://www.courseforum.com/howto_themes.html

Posted at Apr 26/2005 08:59 PM:
[Derek Kelly]: I have successfully set up SSL on our PF server. I understand that SSL only encrypts the traffic between the browser and the server - now, how do I make the server prompt for authentication credentials? Is there any way I can limit certain credentials to certain areas? If the answers are not possible with PF istelf - then suggestions are welcomed. Have you investigated setting up user accounts in PF? This allows you to restrict access to different forums in different ways... [Derek Kelly]: yes, but I need a global password that allows/denies entry to the server in general in order to restrict access from outside. Once inside our network, we're happy to limit access to each group with a password. You should be able to accomplish this by putting a proxy server between PF and the outside world; there is nothing in PF to do it directly

Posted at May 03/2005 06:06 AM:
[Derek Kelly]: On our Linux server the projectforum application seems to die on a regular basis and I must re-launch it a couple of times a day. Any idea why this might be happening? We have not seen (or heard of) this behavior before...

Posted at May 05/2005 12:17 PM:
[Derek Kelly]: Is there any way to password protect a page so that it is not viewable? No. The model is that if a user has access to a forum, they can view any page in it. If you want to hide pages they need to go in a different forum. [Derek Kelly]: Is there any chance this type of thing is planned for a future version? Its possible, but there are no immediate plans.

Posted at May 12/2005 11:58 AM:
[Alex Pang]: I have some documents whose content I would like to import into the main body of my PF pages (rather than as attachments). Is there an automated import feature, or is it necessary to cut and paste the content into each page? Yes, copy and paste would be the way to do it.

Posted at May 12/2005 02:10 PM:
[Mike]:Is there anyway to to have an image serve as a hyperlink? Its possible to do this via HTML (if that option is enabled).

[Mike]:I have HTML enabled and still cannot do it. Please note that the image is also linked from another website. Can you provide and example Try putting "= = = html = = =" lines before and after, so that any wiki markup won't get interpreted in your img tag.

That did it, thankyou :)

[Paul]:

Posted at May 19/2005 06:25 PM:
[Gary Jamieson]: What is a Category Page as mentioned in 4.30 release notes? I can't find a reference to it in the Manual. Categories are a bottom-up way of grouping related pages, where pages link to a master category page... in another forum, take a look at the Help page for example, which contains a link to the category page "Category Forum Help".

Posted at May 24/2005 10:57PM:
[karen]: the replace file doesn't appear to work. It should pop up the attach file dialog but I get an error on page message. Can you send us the error message, along with what browser you're using? support@courseforum.com

Posted at May 28/2005 09:13PM:
[Wes]: I'm trying to get a better idea of what PF is capable of; is there a list of sites built with PF available? People generally use it for internal communications (or with a more select group of people), and most are therefore password protected... while there are a few wide open sites, its not the typical scenario...

Posted at Jun 02/2005 03:39PM:
[Derek]: The new tables are a great addition! I have notice a quirk however, the tables are set to vertically justify content to center by default and I see no way to make them justify top. This presents a poor visual look for things that have various lengths like rss feeds for example. If one feed is in column a and shows 10 posts, another feed is in column b and has 8 posts, and a third feed is in column c with 5 posts, then the content in the three coulims lines up horizontally much like this this greater than sign: >. Can you fix this please? Agreed, they should default to top vertical alignment [Derek]: Do you know when this fix will be implemented? Probably next version, so likely 1-2 months.

Posted at Jun 08/2005 06:35AM:
[Bob R]: I'm glad to have tables but unfortunately many of mine would be nested in bulletted lists, and it seems I can't embed the table in a bullet, or otherwise indent the table. Any way to indent, or center, or right-justify the table? (Before tables I would use ===, which, in addition to manually aligning the columns, also allows me to manually indent whole thing.) I'd also like to be able to put a border around the cells. There's of course a tension between more powerful markup and the desire to keep things as easy to use as possible. For things like you're looking for, right now the approach you'll have to use is enabling HTML formatting.

Posted at Jun 12/2005 06:52AM:
Chuck F: Refer to Bob R's post...Unfortunately, if you turn on HTML and especially PHP, you have just built a script kiddie magnet. So you are esentially locked out of allowing access from the net. Most ProjectForum sites run password-protected, as opposed to fully open e.g. like Wikipedia. I'd agree there are some risks with allowing arbitrary HTML in a completely open site.

Posted at Jun 14/2005 03:57PM:
[Ralph Naylor]: How do I get rid of project forum on a linux system? rlnaylor@mindspring.com Delete the application and the 'Group Data' directory it created

Posted at Jun 17/2005 07:33PM:
Argyre Patras: Any tricks to getting ProjectForum running on an OS X Server? We had it running fine on a user machine, but really needed to put it on one of our servers. Since the Apache Server on OS X Server does NOT use the standard http conf file, we have to do a little more tweaking, I suspect. Anyone done this? Running 10.2 at the moment, but will be bumping up to newer server software in the wnext week or two.

Posted at Jun 23/2005 06:01AM:
[Greg Naylor]: I havehad Project Forum operating successfully on a dial-up service. I am now on satellite broadband connected through a standard network card. Project Forum is no longer accessible. Can anyone advise how I negotiate the new setup? My email address is gnaylor@bordernet.com.au

Posted at Jun 29/2005 03:21AM:
Dermot Doran I have not been able to find any information as to how one can reset RSS entries. I thought this would be done via Group Admin and "Reset Activity Files". However, I keep getting all changes in my RSS reader! Your reader should be smart enough to track which items have been already read... however, the feed is behaving correctly, as all (well, the last 15 or so) items should be served to you. That worked! As you may have gathered, I'm new to RSS feeds and readers as well! Thanks.

Posted at Jul 10/2005 10:56PM:
[karen]: I know its been posted a few times going back to 2004, however the problem of the breadcrumbs running over the post button is one of the main complaints that users have been passing on to me. The browser in use is IE 6.02. Is there a fix - should I be modifying the css?

Posted at Jul 13/2005 08:06AM:
[Steve]: Is there any way to reset a forgotten admin password on the linux version? Stop ProjectForum, and then run 'projectforum -resetpassword', then start it up again.

Posted at Jul 20/2005 09:59PM:
Richard G'day. We're currently trialling the free version of PF to see if it increases team productivity. We also have some team members that cannot get to the internal LAN (high security, no external links etc) and run PF directly to the main teams group. From what I see we can just send them the DB files so they can read, but are there any other techniques or suggestions to allow them to get at pages? We cannot give them any sort of proxy TCP link, but can send them files etc. If it helps, the remote users are typically documenters, who just want to see what else needs to go in the manuals they write. There is an option in each forum to allow you to export the forum to HTML files etc. on disk
Cool, I missed that, thanks.

Posted at Oct 28/2005 07:48AM:
[Laurence]: i have several links from my main page and no matter whatbrowser i use they all open a new page or tab - anyway round this - ie open up links in existing window ?

Thanks

Laurence

Posted at Oct 05/2005 11:17AM:
[Jacob S]: I am trying to implement a table with borders. I am using the proper command given in the users guide, , however my table remains borderless. How should I implement borders in my forum pages ? Make sure you're using the current version of PF, and if you're using custom themes, that they've been updated. If still having problems, email support@courseforum.com and we'll try to help.

Posted at Oct 15/2005 10:47PM:
[Yossi Barsheshet]: Does the application can generate reports of progress per resource and per tasks, like msp doess? I need that answer in order to start evaluating that tool. No, it's not that type of tool.

Posted at Oct 20/2005 10:26AM:
[Richard]: Hello, i am from german. I would like to know, how i can change the text in the page "Forum Signing", so that my friends can read it in german. I couldn't find this page under Group Admin->pages. Thanks. This is not possible right now.

Posted at Oct 26/2005 12:01PM:
[Mike]: First, I think the software is great and works very well. We use it very extensively in our development organization (s/w dev company).

We recently upgraded to 4.6 and I have some feedback:

Email notifications:
- Was confused initially because I added an email address, but when going back in to track changes page there was no record of it - very difficult to tell if you have enabled notifications for a page
- Suggest having the email address set globally for the user (either by user or administrator) and then having a simple check box at the bottom of each page to enable page notifications - easy to turn on and off and clear whether it is on or off - also means not having to enter your email address over and over again
- For group wide emails, it would be nice if the email included links to all of the pages that changed and not just the main page - as it is when you see the email, you have to go to the forum and check the recent changes to see if it's something you care about

With regard to above... PF has a number of different ways to setup user authentication; unfortunately what you suggest cannot accommodate all of them, so initially we've done it this way. The sort of thing you suggest is something we're considering for the future.

It would be nice if there was an up-to-date, single source of editing/formatting information. The closest I can find is http://www.projectforum.com/formatting.html and that still doesn't seem complete (e.g. missing toc:). Better would be a link from the editing hints to something that included this summary (but was specific to the version installed) The page you note is the correct one, though presently lagging behind the application a little bit. Will be corrected soon...
It may be possible, but in my brief digging it's not obvious - I'd like to increase the number of rows in the editing window. We use editing more than posts and it's difficult to navigate with a small number of rows. Not there not, but should be appearing in an upcoming release.

Posted at Oct 27/2005 02:17PM:
[Mike]: One additional comment on email notification is that I seem to get notified of changes even when it was me that made them. This causes me to check to see what was changed only to find it was the page I was just working on. This also is attributed to the different user authentication setup options.

Posted at Oct 28/2005 08:01AM:
[Laurence]: have several links from my main page and no matter whatbrowser i use they all open a new page or tab - anyway round this - ie open up links in existing window ? While your browser may have a popup menu for the link allowing you to do this, you're correct that the behavior we've defined (intentionally) is to have external links open in a new window.

Thanks

Laurence

Posted at Oct 28/2005 10:17AM:
Sorry, I also forgot to ask what the difference is between project Forum and Course Forum. I couldn't turn anything up from a search! Please see http://www.projectforum.com/pf/faq.html#pfvscf THANKS.

David Caple

Posted at Oct 28/2005 11:51AM:
[Brad]: How can I run projectforum on port 80 with IIS running on port 80 also? Our FAQ at http://www.projectforum.com/pf/faq.html may be of assistance with setup. Basically you can't, unless you run them on a different IP address, or proxy from IIS to PF.

Posted at Oct 29/2005 03:56AM:
[David Caple]: Can anybody help me install Project Forum on my hoster's website server? The User Guide says "Launch it" - How? Send it to NASA? Sorry but I cannot see how to launch it on an Internet server from my desktop, I cannot find a "run", "launch" or "start" button/menu item anywhere! My hosting service has said "read the User Guide at the Project Forum website! Circles of knowledge? What operating system is your hoster running? Do you have shell access, or simply a way to copy files to the server? If the latter, you won't be able to run PF there, or at least not without their help. We have our own hosting service which is another option in those situations.

Posted at Nov 02/2005 08:32AM:
[Ben G]: (Feature request) It is possible to view a page by http://demo.projectforum.com/support/Home or http://demo.projectforum.com/support/9
Why don't you allow http://demo.projectforum.com/support/Home/edit instead of http://demo.projectforum.com/support/9/edit ? This would be useful, as we are using a Perl script to edit multiple pages, and it is more user friendly to have page names in the URL. Good suggestion, we'll look into it...

Posted at Nov 03/2005 01:16PM:
[Russ]: Hi, I'm using a Mac with Jaguar osX 10.2.8 to run Project Forum version 4.5.0 (v1372). I'm trying to get it to run on port 80, but no matter what I do, it always starts on 3455. I don't have anything else that I'm aware of running on port 80. Any idea what the problem could be?

Posted at Nov 03/2005 01:23PM:
[Russ]: Ignore my last post, I figured it out. I'm no Mac expert, and I think I was running PF from a Disk Image (DMG ?), which I'm guessing is read only. I copied PF out onto the desktop, and it started on port 80 straight away.

Posted at Nov 10/2005 07:45AM:
[Heinz]: Looks very fine and much more clever then any Wiki system. Just, I dont like to write for my computer, ho I can get this project online into my domain, so that all and everyone can work with it? Thanks Heinz Email: alternative@swissinfo.org

Posted at Nov 14/2005 01:15PM:
Russ: Me again with more problems (see my previous post, two posts up). Project Forum is running on port 80 now, and if I access it locally, i.e. http://localhost or http://192.168.1.101, it serves fine. However, if I try to access it via the internet, it wont serve. I'm using DynDNS to redirect to my network, but I think that's irrelevant, since I can turn on web sharing (Mac's built in Apache server) and it serves back content without any problem. I can't even access it from other PCs on my own network.. Any ideas why it seems to serve fine to iteself, but not to anything else? Is it anything to do with permissions on the desktop? I do generally log in as administrator. Would that make a difference? Both the addresses you give are local, so of course you'd need the remote address to access from offsite. You'll want to check the firewall pane in the Sharing setup to make sure the ports you're running it on are available.

Posted at Nov 16/2005 09:45AM:
Alex Pang: I'm interested in tracking use of our wiki more precisely than we can with the User Activity Summary page. In particular, I'd like to do two things:

1) Be able to see what pages are most commonly-visited; 2) Build a picture of the paths that users take as they move through the site.

Is data that would support such views available? I can see that there's some information about user account activity that's kept, but the ability to reconstruct reading and editoring behavior-- i.e., a user's path through the wiki-- would be valuable. There's more data stored than is available in the interface currently. You should be able to extract this from the backend databases with a bit of open source scripting... email us if you would like to pursue this approach.

Posted at Nov 16/2005 10:04AM:
Alex Pang: Also, is there a maximum number of user accounts a group can have? No limits.

Posted at Nov 18/2005 07:51AM:
[Hector]: Is it possible to redirect a page? ie When someone goes to a page with one link can I reirect them to the proper page? No, this can't be done at present.

Posted at Nov 18/2005 08:47AM:
Deal:I was wondering if we can create and lock templates for different sections of a project and also provide database connectivity in some instances? I like being able to add pages but would like to add pages with different templates for different sections.

Posted at Nov 19/2005 06:11AM:
[Russ]: Thanks for the reply. That worked a treat. I didn't realise that you can't enable port 80 on the osX firewall, without starting the built in "web sharing" (which is actually an instance of Apache which also runs on port 80). I can't believe how short sited Apple to think you would only ever want to run their built in server on port 80, or work without a firewall!

[test44]

Posted at Nov 23/2005 09:07AM:
In attempting to import a group from another server, I received the following error message: "Could not open datafile - not valid?" I copied the course1.db and attachements1 into the import folder from the remote server (version 3.7.0.947). (local server version: 4.6.0.1431) Suggestions? The version differences shouldn't be a problem... only obvious thing to make sure if you did a binary copy when transferring the file. Otherwise, contact support@courseforum.com and we'll see if maybe we can take a look at the datafile for you.

Posted at Dec 06/2005 09:43AM:
[pms]: If I do a search using the search text box that appears on every frame, then do a modified search using the (second) text box that appears as a result of the first search, it crashes the ProjectForum Windows XP service. The browser doesn't seem to mind, and everything looks fine after I restart the ProjectForum service. I'm using your most recent version, v4.7 We haven't seen this here. Is it repeatable? Does it depend on the search term?

Posted at Dec 07/2005 09:20AM:
[Rodolfo]: I´d like to know if is possible in a Group with restricted acces (only group members) in a specific page to restrict access to a specific user? I am asking that because a user is going to work on a page and does not want to give free access until he finish his work. This is not possible... you can lock it so people can't change it, but no way to not view it. The usual approach is to create a project for the work-in-progress, and then later copy-and-paste the page into the desired forum.

SAMBA Installation

Posted at Dec 08/2005 11:20AM:
[Glenn Meyer]: One of the user in my group, who works on a Mac w/OS X just tried exporting the group. The export page says it's available the the exports directory on the machine running the project forum server. Is there any way in the Forum group that I can give her direct access to this export from her Mac, so that she can download it, instead of bundling the files in an archive and mailing that to her? Not at present. Okay, so I just put this on the wish list. Thanks.

Posted at Dec 28/2005 04:14AM:
[Colin]: Just grabbed and "installed" this on a FreeBSD4.11 box. On trying to start it I get this:

    /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libstdc++.so.3" not found, required by "projectforum"

ProjectForum was compiled with an older version of FreeBSD; the default libraries on your system are newer than the ones we compiled against. Check on your system to see if you have a /usr/lib/compat/libstdc++.so.3 file, which I've seen reference to in some web postings. If so, you may need to create a link to that file from /usr/lib

Posted at Jan 10/2005 03:16 AM:
[Kim]: I'd really appreciate a facility which enabled me to create simple tables without resorting to allowing HTML markup. One system I've seen ExampleTableMarkup uses the | character to delimit columns and is very effective and simple to use.

Posted at Jan 15/2005 11:27 PM:
[Larry Liberty]: I was wondering if (or when) more powerful (perhaps Google-like) search functionality could be added to PF?

Posted at Feb 04/2005 08:44 AM:
[Philip Dhingra]: I wish I had more customization options. Gif-replacement and having three hooks for HTML files isn't enough for me. For example, I want to make a DHTML menu of the site map that disappears and re-appears when you hover your mouse over it. I want to have dissappearing and re-appearing "post your comments" box.

Are there any plans in the future for a deeper amount of customization, more on par with the flexibility that open-source pages have? I understand the benefits of proprietary software, but in OSS, you can really re-architect the presentation layer.

We really like PF, and want to keep using it, really want to stretch it to meet our UI needs.

Yes, this is definitely an area that we're hoping to do more with in the future. Having said that, it's quite remarkable what some people have done using the existing hooks already...

Posted at Feb 07/2005 03:48 AM:
JamesY: Is there any support for refactoring? Eg take a root page and pages referenced from it and turn it into a new project; take a section of text within a page and turn it into a new page.

Posted at Mar 21/2005 04:28 AM:
[johnw]: It would be really good if pf had a gantt chart, something really simple would be ok, to get a visual of project timeings.

Posted at Mar 29/2005 09:42 AM:
Is there a way to 'preview' your wiki edits before posting?

Otherwise it would seem that the history buffer would get clogged with minor syntax fixes.

It seems like there should be a 'preview' button next to the post button.

-Greg

Posted at Mar 31/2005 05:41 AM:
nic: We would like to have the following features :

A preview button (before posting) as Greg proposed

Simple tables; what Kim proposed (ExampleTableMarkup) looks good

A way to edit with a non proportional font when doing preformatted blocks (code, but also tables currently)

Posted at Mar 31/2005 05:04 PM:
[James]: I would like the "Project" name to appear on the projects home page header. so project "fred" has a home page that is headed "Fred Home" rather than simply Home.

Posted at Apr 07/2005 05:00 PM:
[James]: I would like to be able to edit just parts of a page. As a page grows large it would be nice to insert "edit" links that allowed only the material between it and the previous "edit" link to be placed into the edit text area. I am concerned that when pages become long (as they will from time to time) they will become too difficult to fine tune.

Posted at Apr 19/2005 09:42 PM:
[Karen]: I've been looking at the ExampleTableMarkup as suggested but I can't make it work. (i'm a new user)

Posted at Apr 20/2005 03:40 AM:
[Mark]: Tables are not currently implemented in ProjectForum, though this will likely be coming in a not-too-distant release.

Posted at Apr 27/2005 06:20 PM:
[Karen]: thanks Mark - I have another request. Previous posting from Bob R asked for Email Notification. I understand the response to use RSS but personally, I find I don't look at my newsaggregator. Staff have indicated that they would like notification into their email. This is common with many other forums. Is this planned? thanks

Posted at May 12/2005 09:34 AM:
[Bill]: I have a few thoughts.

1. how about, by default, making the group name at the top of the page a link to get back to the group home page. I think that this would be particularly helpful for projects.

2. threaded discussions would be very helpful - especially for something like a trouble/solution (or help desk) log. Editing the original post is possible, but this doesn't track when the updated post occurred as far as I can tell. 2a. I prefer RSS notification for most purposes but for an application like this, an automated email to the original poster (the person with the problem) would be nice.)

3. Documentation (in the manual) for adding key pages is helpful, since the syntax differs substantially from that used to refer to pages elsewhere. This was particularly evident when I wanted to add a Key Page to each project in a group. It wasn't too hard to figure out the correct syntax: Linkname (../groupname/pagename) "tooltip" -- but I went through several iterations to do it .. starting with Linkname (../MAINFORUMPREFIX/pagename) and including groupname#pagename, Linkname (groupname#pagename), Linkname (../pagename). It's a good feature to have easily available. Nice.

4. Oh, and a protected area at the top of a page so that new posts could appear at the top without pushing the instructions on how to post down to the bottom. That's probably a substantial change, but...if it's not a big deal it would be nice to have without needing to learn CSS.

Posted at Jul 11/2005 12:37PM:
[Keith]:

Maybe it's a weird suggestion but adding a function that will capture a webpage on the web and save it locally and display it.

The reason being is that sometimes i like to link to pages that have images and other reference materials for our projects and they sometimes go down or are changed and images are removed.

so something like addpage:http://www.whatever.com and it will grab it and make it local.

Posted at Jul 29/2005 02:50AM:
[Kevin]: A minor issue, to be sure: was hoping that attached file icons could be smaller (or nonexistent), so as to make the text stay inline (would really help the readability in most cases) You can modify the icon via changing the theme Well, I guess I like Broadcast best ... (with smaller icons) - thanks