Re: [Tiki-devel] Tracker field category no initial value (crossposting)

[luciash d' b. <lu...@ti...>]

Hi Torsten,

On 09/22/2014 09:59 AM, Torsten wrote:
> Hi Luci,
>
> how Tiki "knows" that 272 is the Id of a category?
>
> Does the type of the autosavefield (ex. category) automatically imply
> the type of the Id?

Yes.

>
> I ask this way, as I recently stumbled over that in the documentation
> and had no clue, what the doc was talking about.
>
> I mean this way:
> 1. field 290 = category field type
> 2. autosavefields="290"
> 3. autosavevalues="272"
>
> so 1. + 2. makes 3. a category Id.
>
> Rightyright?

Exactly. If it was a wiki page field type. It would be something like

1. field 290 = wiki page field type
2. autosavefields="290"
3. autosavevalues="HomePage"


luci


>
> T.
>
> On 21.09.2014 13:01, luciash d' being wrote:
>> Hi Hubert (cc Dev list)!
>>
>> I have found one example not requiring jQuery to preselect but using
>> autosavefields param instead for "default" category being saved. (In
>> this case it is called a "Draft" category)
>>
>> This is what I have in the wiki page:
>> {tracker trackerId="2" action="Create" *autosavefields="290"*
>> *autosavevalues="272"* url="New+Page+Created+Redirect&itemId"
>> target="_top" ignoreRequestItemId="y" outputtowiki="17" discarditem="n"
>> outputwiki="Special Template: Create New Page" wiki="TPL: Create New Page"}
>>
>> 290 is the category type tracker field
>> 272 is the "Draft" category ID
>>
>> So by default all items created have the Draft category set.
>>
>> It is Tiki 9.x.
>>
>> I hope that helps,
>> luci
>>
>>
>> On 09/19/2014 05:56 PM, Hubert Johanssen wrote:
>>> Luciash,
>>> anexamplewouldbegreat!
>>> LaternextweekIwilldescribethefullscenarioforbetterunderstanding.
>>> Thankstoall,
>>> _Hubert_
>>>
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>>>
>>> From:"luciash d' being" <lu...@ti...>
>>> Date:Fri, 19 Sep, 2014 at 11:59
>>> Subject:Re: [Tiki-devel] Tracker field category no initial value
>>> (crossposting)
>>>
>>> Hi Hubert,
>>>
>>> maybe it depends on the type of the category field how you display it
>>> (checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown select or multiple select?) but I
>>> suspect it is simply not implemented for other fields than input
>>> type=text so the TrackerPrefill wikiplugin does not support that
>>> functionality for category field...
>>>
>>> I can send you an example how I did it for one client if that helps.
>>>
>>> luci
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/19/2014 01:04 AM, Hubert Johanssen wrote:
>>>> luci,
>>>> thanks for the suggestion, this is certainly worth trying, although I
>>>> would have to read some doc.
>>>> Before I delve into jQuery, I thought I could solve this with a
>>>> {trackerprefill page="Template_Edit_Mytrackerpage" label="New
>>>> Tracker" field1="38" value1=9 field2="36" value2="hjohanns"
>>>> field3="39" value3="A request"}
>>>>
>>>> The field 38 would contain the category, and value 9 is the value of
>>>> the wanted initial category. The prefill works on the other fields,
>>>> but not on the category, did I miss something?
>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>> hubert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:55 PM, luciash d' being
>>>> <lu...@ti...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> afaik it is possible to preselect a checkbox using jQuery on the
>>>> category field in the Tracker wikiplugin to have a "default" category
>>>> assigned to newly created item at least.
>>>>
>>>> Or did I misunderstood ?
>>>>
>>>> luci
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09/18/2014 04:32 PM, Jonny Bradley wrote:
>>>>> Hi Hubert
>>>>>
>>>>> This has always been a tricky issue in Tiki - granting permissions
>>>> on things that don't exist yet, because an object has to be created
>>>> to be categorised so it's a sort of chicken and egg thing.
>>>>> Usually the best solution to this kind of problem is to make the
>>>> global permissions be what you need for the "default" behaviour and
>>>> then use category or object permissions to secure everything else (if
>>>> i understand what you're up to correctly).
>>>>> Anyone else got any (better) suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> jonny
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18 Sep 2014, at 04:54, Hubert Johanssen
>>>> <hub...@ya... <javascript:return>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>> I'm crossposting here from tikiwiki-users, trying to understand
>>>> how the community works, so sorry for the hassle. First let me tell
>>>> as a new Tiki users that this software is a fantastic piece of work!!
>>>> Lots of features, good stability, active community, by all means it
>>>> hits the top of the list.
>>>>>> I'm implementing a new site, and would like to do some workflow
>>>> function. To this, I'm using trackers, and a special set of
>>>> categories with category transitions.
>>>>>> So to be more precise, I create a tracker, one of the field is a
>>>> category used for the transitions, and each time I view the tracker,
>>>> I can add the transition header on top of the page to let my tracker
>>>> evolve from a status of, say, "initial" to "processing" or to "in
>>>> review".
>>>>>> Note that the status included in trackers is not enough for me,
>>>> otherwise it would have been even better.
>>>>>> Everything perfect, it works great! The only annoying thing is
>>>> that I cannot set a default value for the category field at tracker
>>>> item creation time, which makes it difficult to secure the system.
>>>> Either I allow everybody to edit the status, reminding that they HAVE
>>>> to do it for the status to evolve, or I block and someone has to do
>>>> it for every tracker item.
>>>>>> In both cases, it requires some serious compromise.
>>>>>> I am using Tiki 12, is this something that has changed in Tiki 13,
>>>> or is it considered somewhere for further enhancement?
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for your attention, and let's improve the solution
>>>> together!
>>>>>> Hubert J.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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