Global Features
- 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 | 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 | Disabled |
| 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 | Disabled |
| 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 | Timed questionnaire with recorded scores. | 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 | Disabled |
| Live support system | One-on-one chatting with customer | Disabled |
| 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 |
| 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 an admin 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 | 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 | Bloc 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 |
| HTML feed | A way to transfer HTML content from one Tiki site to another | Disabled |
| Areas | Binding categories and perspectives to each other | Disabled |
| 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 | |
| Accounting | Double-entry accounting system | Disabled |
| Payment | Feature for tracking and managing payment requests. | Disabled |
| Invoice | Invoice system | Disabled |
| Social networks | Integration with social applications and networks like Twitter and Facebook | Disabled |
| Tell a friend | Add to each page an “Email this page” link | 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 | 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 |
| Slideshow (jQuery.s5) | Wiki-page-based slideshow | Disabled |
| Slideshow (jQuery.s5) PDF export | Wiki-page-based slideshow to pdf export | Disabled |
| Time sheet | A project time manager | 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 |
| Image gallery | Collections of images for viewing or downloading (photo albums) File galleries can be used instead. |
Disabled |
| FutureLink-Protocol | A dynamic compendia | Disabled |
| Reports | Reports generator is based on data from Tiki Trackers or from the Tiki Action Log. The design of the report is controlled through a simple user interface that is generated from a set of definitions | Disabled |
| 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 |
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