ProjectForum Support: Older Questions

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Posted at Feb 08/2007 04:59PM:
Tom Moore: I'm trying out the "post while locked feature." It works ok, and may help keep things organized here, if folks don't continue to edit the page wherever they like. My experience is that open posting will eventually be found out by the spambots, finding their way in using links to specific pages. After they find the entire site, locking a particular page is no use, and one has to require a password on the entire site. Then it seems to work to post the site group password in a graphic form. But one would like to enable open posting without giving up the password requirement for editing, site wide. For that I don't see any alternative to putting in a human filter with some character recognition scheme.

Fred: Our users complained about the small Logout link next to Post so we added [http://oursite.com:3455/1/admin/logout.html?pageid=11] higher up in the Home page. That works in that it does bring up the Login page but it does not clear the the Home page. Links on the page however are now inactive, so we are halfway there. Can a LOGOUT button be added like the POST, EDIT, HOME and HELP buttons? Or is there another way to provide a Logout within a page?
1/27 We found a good solution adding a link in Key Pages, like this
Logout (http://oursite.com:3455/1/admin/logout.html?pageid=11) "Logout from Forum"

So please take adding a LOGOUT button to the POST EDIT HOME HELP set as a future enhancement. -- Fred

Brian: Using the new 'Basic' $49 version, am I right in thinking that even if a group password is set, any user name is allowed, ie it doesn't keep track of user name in any way. Also, an ER: can strikethrough formatted text be allowed. This would allow the progress of contributions to any item to be tracked better, with old stuff deleted but still tyhere and readable.

David: I'm trying to set up a link for a file that behaves the same as one for a URL. Can't do it. Using "file: / / xyz / abc" in brackets only displays a link that says 'file', even if you add a description at the end like with a regular URL. Eg: [file] vs. [file] -- look at the browser's status bar to see what the URLs look like relative to regular URLs: [link] vs. Yahoo Home Page

This works if you insert double quotes in the correct places, thus [ My Folder] appears as My Folder -- Martin

Sean: Is there any way to include the references for a different page on a page? I.e. if I had page A, on which I wanted to include the references to page B. I was hoping something like would work... This is on our list to make work in exactly that way, but not sure when that feature will appear.

... This would work great except that it appears that there are only two times when these are refreshed -- they they are first created and when pf is restarted. Is that expected behaviour? It would be nice if the custom links were more dynamic... Caching and timeouts are explained at http://www.courseforum.com/howto_include.html... basically, you'll need to add an 'Expires' header to control this

Sean: Great! Except, I can't get it to work. :(

I use this as the code for the expire - 1 sec after "now":

$expires = $^T + 1; $formatted_expires = gmtime($expires); print "Expires: $formatted_expires GMT\n"; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

but there's no change in the refresh... Is there something wrong with my formatting? Some of the info I've found online isn't entirely consistent...

Matthias: Perhaps I am missing something...but how can I modify the new base.css? You can't. What you can do is override things it defines in your theme-specific styles.css

Matthias: I hope that in the group admin's pages list, the state (EMPTY) is always the actual state, not the one from the given date. Otherwise, if not going topdown, it could happen that a page is deleted because it is marked as (EMPTY) at a given date while at a higher date it is no longer marked as empty....

Matt: How can I embed flash files so they just play in the browser? If I upload the .swf file then the browser just tries to download the file rather than simply playing it. Do I need to do a custom link of some sort? You'd have to embed the same HTML tags that you'd use in a regular webpage into a ProjectForum page

David: I'm slowly getting used to how this works. But one thing that's really confusing is that when you click a button to create a 'New' thing, like a Page, Project, etc, it assigns a unique but meaningless name, like Page #1234 or Project #23. That's ok, except you can't see the name on the new page, and you can't change it unless you go to one of the Admin pages, select the Pages link, locate the new item, click 'rename', and then change it. Since it seems like you'd want to change new item names in just about 100% of the cases, why can't a popup be presented or some other means for entering the new item's name BEFORE it gets created? And why not display the name of a page/project/etc. on their own pages? Projects you can rename on the admin settings page of the project. How are you getting page names like that though? To create a page, it would either be done via 'New Page' which asks for a page name, or by creating a link, which is done by name.

Matthias: I noticed that if uploading a file to a page which includes the line

Moved to the top of the post area. See PF users guide for documentation of this feature.

(for top-posting below), the attached file link goes right after this line and not at the very bottom of the page. I find this confusing. Is this by intention? (v5.2)

Matthias: I noticed that empty pages are listed on the pages list with ugly names. These references result from texts which indeed contain constructs [within single brackets], but these text-blocks are surrounded by six "=" - my assumption was that no interpretation/parsing takes place within those preformatted blocks?!?!? Is this a bug?

Matthias: A question for which I haven't found an answer yet... to stay well organized, each page template contains a [Category Template]-Link. But after load such a template, this link don't makes much sense anymore, because the page that will be build from this template itself does not belong to the Category Template! But not specifying the [Category Template]-Link in the template means that this template could not be seen on the Category page....

Sean: Is there a format for specifying Template pages that belong to a project forum rather than the main forum? Like there is for key pages? That strategy doesn't seem to work. No, there is not at present.

Sean: Thanks. Since you responded to that last comment, but not the continuation of one above, I was wondering if it was overlooked? Continuation of the expires/refresh? I'm still struggling with it.

Chris Jefferies: : Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but here goes...

We host ProjectForum inside our company firewall, it's running as a service on Windows 2003 Server and is using port 8083 because IIS on the same box is using port 80. We have a mysterious problem. ProjectForum runs well for a while, sometimes for months on end. Then sometime we hit a patch when it stops serving pages and a simple restart fails to restore it. We then have to go in with Task Manager and remove multiple entries for pfconsole.exe (usually two or three copies are in memory).

Does anyone else here run ProjectForum on Windows 2003 Server? Has anyone else seen similar behaviour? Does anyone have a fix, or know of analysis tools we could use to track down the cause. Does pfconsole write to a log file somewhere?

Any help or advice gratefully received.

Matthias: In GroupA, I create a page called test and load an image on it (so the content of that page is only [image:12345]). Everything's ok so far. From GroupB, I do an [include:GroupA#test]. But the image does not appear. That's because of the fact (I mentioned on the support pages before) that the reference of course is invalid in the new context, but: IMO every relative reference on a page included from another group has to be changed to an absolute reference and inclusion time by prefixing it with the group id or number. Otherwise the included links and the whole included pages are more or less useless... I know, I could include the image in several other ways, but my intention was to provide pages of support code, each with small portions of arbitrary usefull snippets of code, which other persons in several groups could easily include in their pages.

Matt: Is there any way to suppress the opening of the new window for an external link? i.e. something that works in the same way as the html "target"? I want to use a link as a navigation element, but the constraints of the wiki links mean that I need to format the link as an external link. For example I want to link to http://myforum.com/search?q=navigationword. No way to change that at present, sorry.

Chris Jefferies: The obvious workaround is to use an HTML snippet to fully specify the link using the normal [===HTML=== above and below the HTML code block. This will let you do anything you wish - format links, images, tables however you like them, use javascript, whatever.

'''Matthias:''' How did I replace an ''Image'' (with a newer version etc.)? The trick to change the ''image:1234''-link to an '''']Unknown File -link, then replacing the file and switching back to image:1234 leaves me with some generic icon... oh uh I see the above is disturbing the page somewhat....

Posted at Feb 21/2007 02:47AM:
Alex: I've set up ProjectForum (free version) on my PC. Everything is working ok, except for Group Admin: I went into the Group Admin page, set a password, and now it won't let me back in again. I'm definitely using the right password.

Solution: I had always had cookies enabled. However, it turns out that the problem was I was using a PC net name to access ProjectForum across a LAN e.g. "http://Jims_PC:3455/1/1" - and IE can't handle cookies from sites addressed this way. It makes no difference whether the machine name you're using refers to the local machine you're running IE on. The solution is to reference the machine using its IP address.

Posted at Feb 24/2007 02:04AM:
Ron: How does one add either a link or include static HTML pages that reside on one's computer hard drive so that the HTML page will come up and do its thing? the "add file" and bracketed file and include functions do not do it. Not possible for security reasons... attach it or copy/paste

Posted at Feb 24/2007 03:19AM:
Ron: I have a potential show-stopper. In CourseForum, I would like to deliver eLearning content in the form of interactive flash video that links back to our LMS. The Flash files do not play correctly in the CourseForum IE browser. They are out of the focus that the HTML file designed to play them in provides. Can you play the files correctly via a static web page on another server (i.e. not the one fronting your LMS)? If so, you'll need to copy the HTML code that brings in the Flash video exactly into the PF page, placing the whole thing within a HTML block

Posted at Feb 24/2007 11:42PM:
Hope: How do I add a group? On the Site Home page that lists the groups, there will be a "Create New Group" button. If it's not there, that is because the person administering the ProjectForum site has set it up so that only they can create new groups.

Posted at Feb 27/2007 12:06PM:
Nancy: Since updating to the newest version of ProjectForum, I am having problems with zipped files downloaded from the ProjectForum server. If I connect to the Forum from outside the firewall and download a ZIP archive, either I get a message that the file won't unzip because it it corrupted or I get an error message and then there is something wrong with the unzipped files. If I use the software Timbuktu to access a machine behind the firewall, download a ZIP archive through a browser on THAT machine, then used TB2's file transfer capability, everything is fine.

Anything you can think of that might have triggered this error after the latest software update? What version were you using before? I can't think of anything in the last few versions that might account for that...

Posted at Feb 28/2007 03:33AM:
Andy: Can I link to a heading within a page?

If I have headings in a long page I can put a [toc] tag at the top to allow navigations to sections of the page.

Can I do a link that goes straight to the Heading.

The nearest I can do is:

[http://h04435:3455/1/27#heading1 PlayPen -heading1]

but this will not get renamed and opens in a new browser window. There's no built-in markup to allow doing that, sorry. Thanks for getting back anyway, at least I know I haven't missed anything, it would be handy though.

Posted at Mar 02/2007 02:58AM:
Alex: Is it possible to change which port PF runs on so that it "remembers" this number after you close it? Change it on the main Site Administration page

Posted at Mar 05/2007 04:37AM:
Rob: Is it possible to store the contents for a forum/group at a different location other than that of the default ? I'm sure it is, but just don't know how to change it. ie. wish to locate the whole content to a mapped drive on a backed up fileserver. Thanks. Because of the way that ProjectForum's database store works, you should (most definitely on Windows, recommended elsewhere) run it so it is storing its data on a local drive, not one mapped over the network.

Posted at Mar 12/2007 01:27AM:
Matthias: I see a lot of messages like document.selection has no properties in my seamonkey console with PF 5.3 and above (in editpage.js). We've fixed up one of these for the next version, but the messages are entirely harmless

Posted at Mar 14/2007 07:06AM:
Alex: My database seems to be corrupting. I've just clicked on the "MORE" link to see what changes have been made recently, and there was this text at the bottom of the page:

yﾱﾂyﾳﾂyﾵﾂyﾷﾂyﾹﾅyﾾcroTodo ifytime:I,email:S],globalctlﾁﾾæﾅüﾖﾍﾈﾁﾐﾉﾲöﾂyﾭﾂyﾯﾂyﾱﾂyﾳﾂyﾵﾂyﾷﾂyﾹﾅyﾾcroTodo endingnotifications,globalctlﾁﾾæﾅüﾖﾍﾈﾁﾐﾉﾲöﾂyﾭﾂyﾯﾂyﾱﾂyﾳﾂyﾵﾂyﾷﾂyﾹﾅyﾾcroTodo y,pendingnotifications,globalctlﾁﾾæﾅüﾖﾍﾈﾁﾐﾉﾲöﾂyﾭﾂyﾯﾂyﾱﾂyﾳﾂyﾵﾂyﾷﾂyﾹﾅyﾾcroTodo tegory:S],attachmentsctl,notify,pendingnotifications,globalctlﾁﾾæﾅüﾖﾍﾈﾁﾐﾉﾲöﾂyﾭﾂyﾯﾂyﾱﾂyﾳﾂyﾵﾂyﾷﾂyﾹﾅyﾾcroTodo geid:I,filename:S,originalfilename:S,contenttype:S,timestamp:I,category:S],attachmentsctl,notify,pendingnotifications,globalctlﾁﾾæﾅüﾖﾍﾈﾁﾐﾉﾲöﾂyﾭﾂyﾯﾂyﾱﾂyﾳﾂyﾵﾂyﾷﾂyﾹﾅyﾾcroTodo

Yes, that would indicate your database is getting mucked up. What platform are you running on? You're not running on one machine with the database residing on another via a shared drive, are you?

Posted at Mar 16/2007 02:04AM:
Alex: No. I'm running project forum + database all on my local hard disk

Posted at Mar 16/2007 03:18AM:
Alex: When printing, PF sometimes breaks lines of text by about 2 spaces - in random places. The pattern seems to be that it only does this near the beginning of the line of an item in a numbered list at the second indent or further. Below is an example, marked-up: This is something you may be able to control better through stylesheets (themes), but haven't looked closely at the problem..

Older Questions and Comments
Contents
First Heading

First Heading

This is an interesting list designed to test the ability of ProjectForum to neatly print a page of text
What we find it does often is break up lines of text at random points - but it only does this when printing
From a brief analysis of what I've seen so far, the following patterns have been noticed
1. It only does it when you've got 2nd level numbered lists, or further.

Posted at Mar 19/2007 04:36AM:
LVirden: Is there a way to load a large number of pages into a projectforum? Say, perhaps, one was moving from one flavor of wiki to another? Larry, am in contact with Pascal and others about this

Posted at Mar 19/2007 08:59AM:
LVirden: Does ProjectForum provide a method of seeing what changed on a page over a period of time? What revisions/additions have been made? yes, a full integrated version history with diffs is available

Posted at Mar 23/2007 06:29AM:
Alex: Is that fully integrated version history functionality available on the Trial version? With a demo license yes, but not in the free version. Click on the 'Versions' link at the bottom right of any page

Posted at Mar 26/2007 07:40AM:
Pancho

I am trying to find how to search a group, but I can't find how to search a group. :-)

It'd be nice to have a search field appear right at the header. Is that possible?

Oops, never mind... up right hand corner.

Posted at Mar 29/2007 11:47AM:
Sean: How does PF handle it's passwords? Does it use LDAP or anything? I'm wondering about the possibility of sharing authentication between applications... They're stored internally. The Enterprise version [link] has hooks that would allow you to set it up with LDAP, but the regular version doesn't allow this.
Matthias: Is there any documentation about these hooks? See http://www.projectforum.com/howto_ldap.html
Matthias: Thanks. But how does PF then manage the user accesses? It seems to me that the accounts still have to be defined inside PF, and only the actual logon process (:=password verification) is handled externally. This could be taken one step further in that the logon-CGI additionally returns some infos about the account's rights (admin, group admin, etc.)...? What each user can access is still stored in PF; essentially there are 'shadow accounts' in PF that map onto the ones in LDAP, so all the access control is still done in PF as before

Posted at Mar 30/2007 12:51AM:
Alex: Is there a way to set up links to files in such a way that forces them to open in a new window? http links do, so if you want a page to open in a new window, you could reference it via its web address; alternatively, preference the page name by popup: or help:

Pancho: And is there any way to NOT have http: links open in a new window or tab? Not with the built-in markup, but you can either add html or define a custom link type to do this

Posted at Mar 31/2007 08:29AM:
Pancho: Is there any documentation on Projectforum's "macros"?

Uploaded Image

No, but they do as they appear to do in the page - no magic

Matthias: Just had the following curiosity with v5.3.1: The 1st Category-Links on a page does not become a link.... it does not matter, which of the three links I put first... the first one always appears as normal text ... all the links are valid!

Meanwhile I think I've found the error: it was a misplaced [-Char elsewhere on the page, which lead to this error later...

I have justed started using a new projectforum site in anger on SuSE Linux x32 OSS 10.2. I can get the app to work when the setup use is logged in and the PF command is executed; once I log out PF goes too - probably obvious to some but any ideas on an simple fix so PF is persistent please?

Posted at Apr 02/2007 10:25AM:
>And is there any way to NOT have http: links open in a new window or tab?
>Not with the built-in markup, but you can either add html or define a custom link type to do this

Pancho: On a related matter: If I have a pdf in the database, is it possible to add html or define a custom link to open such pdf in the main window with a browser plug-in? If so, where can I find documentation on that? (the database files are referenced by numbers only... I am not sure how to access them from html)

Posted at Apr 24/2007 12:03PM:
Nancy: Just installed the most updated ProjectForum. Went to the Group Administration pages. On the page that lists attachments, I clicked the column headed for Size. The NUMBERS in the column sort. The problem is that some are KB and some are MB, ergo... 99KB is shown above 90MB. :-O Fix in next release? Yes

Posted at May 02/2007 01:25PM:
Trey could someone show me an example of the free Project Forum ?

preferably a few examples?

thanks

Posted at Jun 12/2007 01:36AM:
peterjfrancis: I have a problem with opening links in Firefox When I use a link such as

file://data1/techdept/Design Projects/Design_Admin/Timesheet/Timesheet.xls Timesheet

It won't open in Firefox but is OK in IE. I've tried forward and back slashes but it doesn't fix the problem.

Is there a work around ? Yes, see http://www.projectforum.com/pf/faq.html#firefoxserverlinks

Posted at Jun 13/2007 04:45AM:
Alex: Hi, I've recently had a hard drive failure, thereby losing all my ProjectForum files. Disaster. Fortunately, I took regular copies of the course1.db and sitedata.db files. I've copied them back to a new installation of ProjectForum, but it's asking me for a password - I may have set one up a long time ago, but haven't needed to login for so long that I've forgotten login details. Is there any way we can work around this? Thanks. See http://www.projectforum.com/pf/faq.html#passwordreset

Posted at Jun 14/2007 08:46AM:
Andy: Does anyone have any experiance of doing Getting Things Done (GTD) using project forum?

Posted at Jun 21/2007 08:48AM:
Axxll: How do i link emails sent/received using outlook ( or similar) into projects or pages withing the PF environment?

wouldnt be easier to be able to send/receive emails within the PF ? that way everything reated to a specific topic is always there inside PF.

input appreciated

Posted at Jun 25/2007 02:30AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Several times I noticed missing files after performing the group-administrative action Delete Unused files. For example, I return to a definitely untouched page after such action and see the message could not include file; the statemant is [include:855523] - but there is no attachement 855523 ... Unfortunally, I couldn't easily repeat or proof anything.... I will do some tests in a test environment and post new results later. Addition 2007/06/28: Just discovered the next attachement in error; again it was an [include:...]-Statement, and the attachment was a html-file. I suspect a serious error.... We'll look into it, thanks Matthias Hoffmann: The problem grows. Could it be that deleting all old versions of a page deletes the file attachements too? We did identify a bug, where the 'include' wasn't being treated properly w.r.t. deleting files. It's been fixed in 5.5, currently in beta

Posted at Jul 05/2007 04:22AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Printing is always funny: SeaMonkey constantly refuses to print more than the 1st page; IE6 prints all pages, but usually with lines cut and things overlapped and destroyed. For me, only OPERA produces correct prints. - Can someon confirm this or give some tipps and tricks? Has this something to do with the PRINT.CSS (which contains nothing specific, though)? Addition: SeaMonkeys has no problems printing pages from http://wiki.tcl.tk, e.g.

Posted at Jul 05/2007 04:36AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Another thing which is clear but sometimes needs to be recalled: Only references to pages within the own group are listed. Which means that if I do a link [B#pageInB] from within the group A, this reference is not listed on the references-page of pageInB. I think the reason is, each group is implemented as a separate mkDB, and the groups are only "loose coupled"

Posted at Jul 05/2007 07:28AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Perhaps it would be better to use a different formatting for non existent pages, and create them on demand if clicking on the new link only. This would help in reducing the creation of unwanted pages in case of misspelled pagenames... For e.g., If I think I know the pagename, I blindly type [programm], save my page and klick on that link. But, the true name is program - but: too late, a page programm is now created by mistake.....
In our groups, I also noticed many pages with names like -? or -s, resulting from importing some text with included [ and ] (which is not uncommon) via cut and paste.

Posted at Jul 05/2007 07:34AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: The "new" layout of Group Administration / Pages looks a little bit odd in my browser. Administering hundrets of pages is slow because of the many icons and table cells used. Because of the wrap in the cells, each tablerow is bigger then neccessary. See attached image... Perhaps a checkbox or option like use simple layout would be possible...

Uploaded Image

Posted at Jul 11/2007 14:21PM:
I'm trying to move our ProjectForum installation to a new OS X 10.4 Intel Server from an OS X 10.3 PowerPC server. I installed PF on the new server and then copied over the PF folder from the users 'Application Support' but PF won't then run on the new Mac. The app launches but when I click the 'Start' button it it won't run.
If I delete the PF folder from the 'Application Support' PF runs fine on the new Mac.
How can I move my data over? I managed to find the 'import' option, but when I try to import my old 'course1.db' file I get a message in red 'Could not open datafile - not valid?' You shouldn't need the import. Make sure you've quit the PF application on the new server, and then copy the entire "Group Data" folder over, replacing the one that was created by running PF on that machine. Then start PF up on the new machine. You also want to make sure there are not any permissions problems (files must be read/writable etc.)

Posted at Jul 16/2007 12:13PM:
Rebecca: Is there a way to enter a whole list of email addresses into the track changes feature? Not at present, unfortunately.

Posted at Jul 17/2007 11:27PM:
Stephanie Ng: Just wondering if there is a way to adjust the size of the popup screen when using the [popup:] function? This can be modified in the theme... go into the theme editor, and adjust the item labelled 'Help Window Size'

Posted at Aug 09/2007 06:31AM:
peterjfrancis: I am having a problem with including internal HTML files , below are two include statements the 1st one doesn't work and returns an error message of Could not fetch included URL (timeout) . the 2nd one works fine !

Any suggestions ?

include:http://T:/Design_Reference/Design_intranet_index.htm

include:http://www.courseforum.com/formatting.html

(Brackets omitted to display the text)

Peter, it looks like the first file is trying to access a file on a LAN mounted drive, and not via http. This is not possible to do, for security reasons.

Posted at Aug 30/2007 08:15AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Long ago I worked with slideshows. I forgot how to print a slideshow or I am doing something wrong: If I look at the print preview while showing the slideshow, I see the normal layout of the wiki page. But what I want is to print the slideshow as seen on the screen...

Posted at Aug 31/2007 05:40PM:
Herb Weiner: I've been evaluating Project Forum, and it seems to have everything I need except for one feature. I want to require a password to edit pages, and possibly to post comments, but allow anyone to read most pages. However, I would like to be able to restrict some pages so that only members can read them. Upon accessing such a page, anyone who has not already logged in would be required to provide a password to proceed. Is this a reasonable feature? Any chance of seeing this in a future release? Herb, you'll want to put pages that you'd like to have readable only by some people into a separate project (i.e. a subforum in the main forum). Read/write access of the sort you talk about is handled that way on a per-forum basis, rather than per-page.

Posted at Sep 14/2007 12:23AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: I wonder if there is a way to replace images which are included with [image:123456]. Because the images are displayed inline, there is no special symbol/link as with [] with the download/view/replace" options. The following does not work:

change the [image:123456] to [Unknown File] -- OK
replace the image -- OK
change back from [Unknown File] to [image:123457] -- Error: only a tiny generic symbol is displayed.
Possible cause: because the file is uploaded as a file (not as a image), it is still treated different (and not as a picture) after altering the reference. I'm telling this because there is no easy way to include a picture which will change frequently without always uploading a new copy. Perhaps a picture could include a (invisible) link in the upper left corner with the needed menu...

What's wrong with markup in my posting....?

Posted at Sep 14/2007 12:29AM:''
Matthias Hoffmann: Another one. Creating a link to a http-page as a picture is easy:

 [http://www.projectforum.com image:xyz]

But why does this mechanism not work with forum-internal links or file-links:

 [ccsas# image:xyz] -- Error
  [file:xxxx image:xyz] -- Error

There is a flag associated with attached files, specifying whether they are uploaded via 'add image' or 'add file', and only the former can be the target of an image tag. Regarding using image:xyz for items other than links, this is not supported now. Both of these things may well change in the future of course...

Posted at Sep 21/2007 04:56AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Isn't 5.5.1 the actual version - the homepage still says 5.5.0...? Oops, fixed now. Thanks..

Posted at Oct 7/2007
Stephen Leach, steve@watchfield.com: Is there a way for a program to download the wiki text of a page rather than just the HTML? This would be very helpful for us. If you mean against a running server, if the program can navigate into the edit page, it can just grab it from there...

Posted at Oct 11/2007 12:56AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Whatever I try, including rss always ends in [Could not fetch RSS feed (timeout)]. Sitting behind firewalls, etc.

Posted at Oct 11/2007 01:04AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Just loaded up an image as a file, than changing the markup from file to image (v5.6). What I see then is Uploaded Image. Have not been able to duplicate this... the "Uploaded Image" is normally the "alt" text for an image, which means at least an image tag is being generated... Matthias Hoffmann: Just tested again and everything works as expected: now I can switch between image: and file: and the behaviour is always right.

Posted at Oct 25/2007 08:47AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: parameter defaults would greatly increase the usability of custom links...

Posted at Nov 21/2007 01:13AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: What about a kind of Save & Continue-Button in the edit window?

Posted at Dec 14/2007 06:29AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: We use some custom links. How can we realize a thing like [red text which should be displayed in red color]. The problem is, I don't now how to feed a variable, unknown number of parameters (in the example, text which...) into the inline definition. The substitution $0 means all parameters that were passed in .... does this help? Yes - I have overlooked that...

Posted at Dec 20/2007 09:21AM:
Matthias Hoffmann:

Just noticed that renaming a page via group admin panel does not change the pagename in links which are in "prefix#pagename"-notation, even though update links to this page is active and the links reside in our own forum (because pages are included in other groups, so links have better to be absolut).
Also noticed that the pages in this forum-page becomes slower and slower because of the ever growing pagecount in our forum. Ok, we can split to several forums, but this is not adequat in this case. Would it instead be possible to present an (alphabetical) table of contenindex first, from which one can branch to the appropiate subpage (perhaps only if the page count grows over a certain limit)?

Both problems noted, thanks...

Posted at Jan 05/2008 10:34AM:
Pancho Castano:

In Safari 3.0, the rollover popup menu for pdfs does not work properly. It pops up when the page is opened and then never disappears. Here's a screen shot of a page with 4 attached files:

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View Document Icon Picture 3.png Thanks for the report; we've found this happening intermittently, but not it hasn't been consistent...

Posted at Jan 29/2008 03:55AM:
Daniel Musciano:
Email notification issues We are trying the demo version as a tool for our projects an tech info but, even when the RSS notification is working ok, we could not get email notifications at all.
Most probably it is because our SMTP server requires authentication. (login with user name and passwd.)
Is there any way to get email notifications with this kind of SMTP server procedure? At present, authenticated SMTP is not supported, though we do expect to add it in the future...

Posted at Jan 31/2008 01:24AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Ok, I should have tested the BETAs a little more... I just realized that editing a page in the new WYSIWYG mode does not preserve the page source. e.g., it looks like extra blanks - which have of course no meaning for the page rendering but only for the look in the conventional text box - are removed. I used blanks here and there to align columns of a table, e.g.

Posted at Jan 31/2008 01:27AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Another one (not reproducable): the text cursor stays in a table column. The table edit icons at the top (remove column, insert, etc.) are constantly flickering, as if they get redrawn all the time.

Posted at Jan 31/2008 01:33AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Start editing in the new graphical mode takes a noticeable time with SeaMonkey. For a short time, the "old" editbox appears. With IE6 this is not the case.

Posted at Feb 06/2008 09:09AM:
Jay: With v6, the richtext editor put brackets around our old links, so that they all now just say [link]-- anyway to fix that? Jay, we've not seen that... can you provide an example of a link where this happened, e.g. the wiki text of the link before the edit?

Posted at Feb 06/2008 10:43AM:
Jay: A suggestion: the Attach File screen should also give you the option of adding a name to the uploaded file (other than the one it has), eg: [file1234 name I gave it during upload], so that you don't have to do it after you've uploaded it. Noted... thanks

Posted at Feb 15/2008 05:50AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Is it possible to start editing at the bottom of the input box (i.o.w., setting the caret after the last character)?

Posted at Feb 18/2008 06:22AM:
peterjfrancis: I have 3 different groups setup on our site and I want to link to pages in GroupA from GroupB. Where do I find the Groups ID no ? I've looked in the Group and Site Admin sections but can't find it. Look in the URL's for each group, right after the host part. So for example this group has an id of 'support'. Others will have other names (set via the URL prefix field) or numbers.

Posted at Mar 04/2008 05:03AM:
James Perkins: I had seen a posting regarding the difficulty of a user being able to log out of the forum. I personally have seen where the "log out" link is simply not displayed at all. The posting was from quite awhile ago. When will this be fixed? I'd agree with that user's posting who pointed out that, even when it is displayed, the link is in such an obscure location in small font that it is not obvious to users. There have been some incremental improvements made in the last while; as well, version 6.0 added the new site-wide accounts model which was a major change. You can expect to see some things added in the next couple of versions to help smooth these things out; most likely, this will include making the logout links more consistently present and obvious.

James, please see my comment in Older Questions re adding a -LOGOUT- to the Key Pages area. Works very well for us. Fred (Mar 7th)

Posted at Mar 11/2008 07:49AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: I see the following behaviour (with 6.03):

Test1
- Richtext Editor is disabled
- start editing, switching to Richtext Editor while within a table
- The tablecontrols (for appending a row, etc.) do not appear
Test2
- Richtext Editor is enabled
- start editing
- The tablecontrols (for appending a row, etc.) are there

Posted at Mar 13/2008 10:23AM:
Robb Kramer: Greetings; I'm running a trial version of Project Forum right now. I've noticed that if I log in as one user and post a comment to a group, then logout that user, login as a new, different user and return the same group, or any group, the post still lists the previous, logged out user as the one posting.

Is this a bug, a limit of the trial version, or something I've missed in the setup?

thanks for the help,

Posted at Apr 08/2008 10:40AM:
Fred: We like being able to have posts appear at the top, most recent being readily available. But, we'd like some instructions to appear above this section. That is, instructions, then posts with the most recent at the top. Is that possible now? If not, count it as a feature request.
Yes, possible now... put a line reading comments right below your instructions.
That initially did not work for me as all I could see was comments in the reply above.. but now using EDIT I see the three ='s before and after comments. THANKS.. Fred4/18

Posted at Apr 09/2008 12:33AM:
Matthias Hoffmann:

Sometimes, pages grow rather large, so we tend to break them into smaller subpages while still let them render together via [include:]. The problem now is, that it is not easy in such a page to edit a included subpage. One must explicitely define a link for each included page. Perhaps it would be easy to define an option to include, that - if the included pages comes from within the own wiki - a tiny edit button for this pages is generated automatically somewhere beside the contents of the included subpage. Or, a new option to [toc:] could include a table of [include:]s...
For this purpose, a macro like [editself] or so would be helpfull. Sepcified in each included subpage, it would be solution to our problems... Noted.. thanks for suggestion

Posted at Apr 17/2008 04:35AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: We've noticed that swiching between text and gui mode while editing merges blank lines between existing lines, at least in text blocks between three equal signs... (6.04) Thanks for the report

Posted at Apr 18/2008 04:18PM:
Lyn Evans.

Just downloaded the demo version. I am looking for a wiki that will replace my large collection of MindManager Mindmaps. They have grown so large, its becoming difficult to search and locate information.

A Wiki is the way, ProjectForum looks good.

Does anyone know how to move this sort of data into ProjectForum.

I have tried a few things.

I can get a PDF export (a picture) inserted as a tag, but that is not searchable from within the Wiki.

A cut and paste lacks all formatting so becomes a large block. Ok I can locate information with a search, but then can read where in a large block the text I am after is.

I have tried a few exports but to no avail.

I guess there is no easy way, but you never know. Any advice ???

Posted at Apr 24/2008 12:38AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: Offering an input field for specifying search keywords when uploading files and images would be great; PF could store such keywords somewhere where they can be found via a regular search...

Posted at Apr 25/2008 02:20AM:
Lyn: Matthias. Yes sort of did this but not to elegant. I took a cut and paste of the mindmap, into notepad to get the text right then cut and pasted into a blank page project forum page. left it as a block of text and attached a PDF export of the mind map. now I can search on a given word, locate it in the mind map raw text, then open up the PDF and have a look. Its not perfect, but it sort of works. I will have to think about storing keywords, like metadata info.... thanks for the advice. BTW, haven't sussed the input field yet, only been using this 7 days .... but I will get there.

Posted at Apr 30/2008 08:17AM:
James Perkins: How can I enable email notification for forum members with my site that is hosted by ProjectForum? I see this listed in the Site Administration manual, but I do not receive a Notification link on group notification. I hope that I am able to activate this on the hosted version. Notification is already enabled... to use it, click on 'Track Changes' on any page.

Posted at May 08/2008 06:51AM:
Matthias Hoffmann: On a page where I have no write access, I can still klick the new page link and create one. Such a page is referenced then from nowhere and can only be found on the pages lists or recent changes lists. or via search.. but yes, this behavior was a conscious design decision

Posted at May 08/2008:

I wish to link to another page but supply a different text label to the linked page's title. In a similar way to defining a hyperlink in HTML. Is there a way to do this? Do I have to use the raw http page address with the "external links" method? You cannot presently change the name shown on a link to a page, other than via html...

Posted at May 10/2008 05:19AM:
P Crawford:Is there any way to upload document and have it collaboratively edited by the group members? As an example a member could attach a Word document and other members could make changes to it. No, collaborative editing within attachments is not supported. You can of course upload newer versions of documents, replacing the old one.

Posted at May 10/2008 10:28PM:
D Chizmadia: Is the ProjectForum markup syntax the same as any of the other Wikis? (e.g., MediaWiki, MoinMoin, etc) similar to some, but not identical, no... btw, a good site to compare things is http://wikimatrix.org

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