Features / Usability

Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 19 May 2016 19:52 GMT-0000 posts: 3665

Does the Category plugin accept file as a valid type? I thought it only took file galleries — not files. If you want to generate a list of files, by category, I think you you can use the Files plugin.

HTH,

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Posted by Torsten Fabricius 19 May 2016 22:55 GMT-0000 posts: 1563

Hi John and Rick,

my idea is likely more for a new setup and not for an existing site with lots of categorised existing uploaded files. So ...

Supported object types (from PluginCategory ):

article, blog, blog post, fgal, forum, igal, newsletter, event, poll, quiz, survey, tracker, wiki, img

fgal => refers to file gallery, not files
wiki => obviously refers to wiki pages

idea from there:

tracker might refer to tracker items and not necessarily to or to only trackers (hopefully)

In case I would be right, a more or less simple tracker could be created with a field "files" which could be connected to a file gallery. Then a field category and maybe a template for item display (optionally).

Then the files could be found in the PluginCategory and same time accessed (and pre-filtered) with PluginFiles and accessed in the file gallery (but only in one gallery per tracker).

This setup might make sense in some use cases and not in others. I have some use case where I prefer document management based on trackers over file galleries, although even there the remaining file gallery functionality is still handy and necessary.

Otherwise back to Ricks idea, if my idea was not appropriate for your use case: You might use maybe some kind of two culomns (two divs class=col-md-6 inside a div class=row, where you can use the PluginDiv. One side the PluginCategory and the other side the PluginFiles.

Am just thinking, hope that helps, regards,
Torsten

Posted by John Morris 20 May 2016 14:43 GMT-0000 posts: 758

Thanks Torsten for your reply,
It may help to demonstrate what my idea is, and it may be a flawed idea to begin with. My objective is to have a main landing page for our main categories. I guess you could equate it to a category portal of sorts.
The goal of a category landing page would be to let our users know what the category is use for, and what type of pages should be created in that main category.
So I would like a one stop place for new users to go to, the category landing page, where they can understand what the category is for, and where they can see listings of existing wiki pages and files in that category.
So the category landing page would be a one stop shop if you will.

I have a doku wiki instance running where I was able to achieve this well. If you can please see at http://tpwtestuser.com/doku/material-processing
I opened that category up for anonymous editing so you can see what I am trying to achieve here with my Tiki. Otherwise you would not be able to see the two boxes to create a page and use a template.

When you view my Doku page Material Processing, you'll find a list of pages that were created, and a list of files that were uploaded into that category. And you'll also see two fields, one for creating the page, and one for choosing a template to create the page with. This is the one stop shop page I am trying to achieve with our Tiki.
Can I do this with Tiki, I know I can, I just don't know how yet. Doku was easy to set up for this, I am struggling a tad with Tiki, but only out of my own ignorance of Tiki.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!