Global Features
Related Topics
- Overview
- Enables mature, stable end user features
- To Access
- From the Features page, click the Global Features tab.
- Note
- After enabling specific permissions, be sure to configure the necessary permissions so users can use the feature.
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Wiki | Pages and collaboratively authored documents with edit history. | Enabled |
| File gallery | Storage of files of various formats to display or download, etc. With check-in and check-out (lock) capability | Enabled |
| Blog | Online diaries or journals. | Disabled |
| Articles | Articles can be used for date-specific news and announcements. You can configure articles to automatically publish and expire at specific times or to require that submissions be approved before becoming "live." | Disabled |
| Forums | Threaded or flat discussions. | Disabled |
| Trackers | Database and form generator | Enabled |
| Calendar | Events calendar with public, private and group channels. | Disabled |
| Unified search index | Enables searching for content at the site using a Tiki-managed index. It's recommended to set a cron job to periodically rebuild the search index. |
Enabled |
| Category | Site-wide content category system. Items of different types (wiki pages, articles, tracker items, etc.) can be categorized. Categories can have permissions to control content access | Enabled |
| Tags | Enables tags to be set on pages and other items for freeform categorization. | Disabled |
| Polls | Presentation of a set of votable options, typically displayed in a module | Disabled |
| Quizzes | Sets of questions that can be presented, with the sessions timed and the scores recorded. | Disabled |
| Surveys | Create questionnaires with multiple-choice or open-ended questions | Disabled |
| Newsletters | Content mailed to registered users or other subscribers. | Disabled |
| Shoutbox | Quick comment (graffiti) box. Like a group chat, but not in real time. | Disabled |
| Minichat | Real-time group text chatting enabled through a module. | Disabled |
| Live support system | One-on-one chatting with customer | Disabled |
| Machine learning | Define machine learning models, train them and run queries against them. | Disabled |
| Tiki manager | Use local Tiki Manager to install, upgrade, clone and manage local or remote Tikies. | Disabled |
| Storage path | The path where Tiki Manager will store internal data, backups, logs. It is recommended to be outside document root. Default: storage/tiki-manager |
None |
| Stats | Record basic statistics about major Tiki features (number of wiki pages, size of file galleries, etc.) | Disabled |
| Action log | Provides the ability to track the actions of users and produce reports on a per-user or per-category basis. | Enabled |
| Check for updates automatically | Tiki will automatically check for new updates each time you access the Admin Home page, based on your Check frequency selection. Subscribe to the Tiki Newsletter to be notified of new releases. https://tiki.org/tiki-newsletters.php |
Enabled |
| End-of-Life Date Notifier | Enable notifications for approaching End-of-Life (EoL) dates for supported versions. | Enabled |
| Scheduler | Provides the ability to run tasks at a scheduled time. | Enabled |
| Queued Tasks | Enables the execution of tasks in the background. | Disabled |
| Banners | Insert, track, and manage advertising banners. | Disabled |
| Contribution | Enables users to specify the type of contribution they are making while editing items at the site. The contributions are then displayed color-coded in history and other reports. | Disabled |
| Copyright | Use the Copyright Management System (or ©MS) to display the license of your content | Disabled |
| Communications (send/receive objects) | Send/receive wiki pages and articles between Tiki-powered sites | Disabled |
| Dynamic content system | Block of content which can be reused and programmed (timed) | Disabled |
| Perspectives | Permits overriding of preferences. | Disabled |
| Search engine friendly URL | If the site is using Apache, you can rename _htaccess as .htaccess to use short URLs. On IIS, rename web_config as web.config | Disabled |
| HTML pages | Static and dynamic HTML content HTML can be used in wiki pages. This is a separate feature. |
Disabled |
| Areas | Binding categories and perspectives to each other | Disabled |
| Tiki suggestions | Tiki suggestions displayed once per login session based on a list of rules | Disabled |
| Templated Groups | Templated Groups enables Organic Groups, although strictly speaking not all Templated Groups are Organic in the sense of being created by users since they can be completely admin managed. | Disabled |
| Mautic Integration | Enable the feature here but configure it elsewhere | Disabled |
| User watches | Receive email notification of changes. Each user can choose to be notified of changes to specific items | Disabled |
| Group watches | All users in a group selected by a users admin (tiki_p_admin_users) will receive email notification of changes to specific items. Users cannot choose to stop receiving those notifications while they are members of that group | Disabled |
| Daily reports for user watches | Allows you to schedule daily reports of watches to be sent (batched) at specific times. | Disabled |
| Enable daily reports for new users | Determines if daily reports will be automatically enabled for new users. | Disabled |
| User watches translations | Disabled | |
| User watches languages | Watch language-specific changes within a category. | Disabled |
| Group alert | With this feature you can choose the user in the group to be alerted about some changes in the Tiki site: Calendar items, Tracker changes, Tracker item changes, File gallery changes | Disabled |
| Object maintainers and freshness | Enable tiki objects to have maintainers, update frequency and freshness. Then, console.php objects:notify-maintainers can be used. | Disabled |
| Default update frequency | Default number of days for object update frequency. | 90 days |
| Spreadsheet | Spreadsheets with calculations and charts | Disabled |
| Directory | User-submitted Web links | Disabled |
| Draw (SVG edit) | Draw enables creating and editing SVG images in all wiki text areas | Disabled |
| Draw (SVG edit) hide buttons | Hide buttons in Draw, HTML id, comma-separated. Example: "tool_select, tool_fhpath, tools_line_show, tools_rect_show, tools_ellipse_show, tool_path, tools_shapelib_show, tool_text, tool_image, tool_zoom, tool_eyedropper" |
None |
| Separate base image | Leaves the initially edited image as a separate file and stores the drawing separately | Disabled |
| Draw in user file gallery | Users' drawings are stored in their user files gallery | Disabled |
| Tiki user credits | Disabled | |
| Payment | Feature for tracking and managing payment requests | Disabled |
| Social networks | Integration with social applications and networks like Twitter and Facebook | Disabled |
| Share | Add a "Share" link in all pages to send it via email, Twitter, Facebook, message or forums Be careful when allowing anonymous users to activate the antibot feature. |
Disabled |
| Webmail | Provides a webmail interface for site users' own IMAP or POP accounts. | Disabled |
| Mail-in | Create and publish wiki pages and articles via email | Disabled |
| Docs (WebODF) | Docs enables viewing and editing Open Document Format files | Disabled |
| CryptPad Office Documents | CryptPad enables viewing and editing Microsoft Office and OpenDocument Format files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .odt, .ods, .odp) | Disabled |
| CryptPad base URL | Base URL of your CryptPad instance (e.g., https://cryptpad.example.org). Required for embedding the editor. | None |
| Slideshow (reveal.js) | Create simple presentations via Wiki Syntax. | Disabled |
| Slideshow (reveal.js) PDF export | Wiki page based slideshow to pdf export | Disabled |
| FAQs | Frequently asked questions and answers There has been discussion about this feature being retired, so keep in mind that normal wiki pages can be used to create and display FAQs. |
Disabled |
| Progressive Web Application Mode | Allow Tiki to be used offline and be installed in a mobile device. Experimental feature. Only Wiki pages and Trackers are available offline for now. |
Disabled |
| Links to cache in PWA Mode | List of links to be cached when PWA is enabled Experimental feature. |
None |
| Tiki connect | Connect your Tiki with the community by sending anonymised statistical data to tiki.org This feature is still under development. |
Disabled |
| Kaltura video management | Integration with the Kaltura video management platform | Disabled |
| Zotero bibliography | Connect Tiki to the Zotero online bibliography management system. You must supply the following items: Zotero Client Key, Zotero Client Secret, Zotero Group, and Zotero Reference Style. |
Disabled |
| Zotero client key | Required identification key. Registration required. | None |
| Zotero client secret | Required identification key. Registration required. | None |
| Zotero group ID | Numeric ID of the group, can be found in the URL. | None |
| Zotero reference style | Use an alternate Zotero reference style when formatting the references. The reference formats must be installed on the Zotero server. | None |
| Enable Web Monetization | Enable Web Monetization showing a message in page header. | Disabled |
| Default payment pointer | Payment pointer to stream the payments. | None |
| Enable for all pages | Enable Web Monetization in all website pages. | Disabled |
| Always use default site pointer | Always use default Web Monetization site pointer, even when users add their username. | Disabled |
| Default paywall text | Default text to be used in web monetized content paywall. | None |