General
Good place to pose questions, comments, ideas, etc. Especially if you don't feel like figuring out how we're organizing stuff.
By the way: are the User cards included in the google search index? I don't see a robots exclusion tag!
--JCK.....Sun Nov 18 14:12:42 PST 2007
On a given Wagn, you can set all User cards, and all or particular inclusions on them, to be readable only by people who are signed in. See permissions for more on that. We don't yet have a way to do robot exclusion within Wagn but that seems like a good Idea, so: add a card for robots.txt.
For now, we removed birthdays from User+*type+*structure here on wagn.org Emails are not visible anyway, and of course people can choose a pseudonym if they don't want to be publicly associated with Wagn :-). Hope that addresses your concern. --John
Is there a syntax guide/page/card?
--Eric Kramer (Not signed in).....Fri Dec 28 14:51:30 PST 2007
For normal cards content there's markup, and for Search cards there's CQL Syntax. --John Abbe
When saving a basic card with a HTML table, Wagn removes all tags so that only the text remains.
This happens on a local installation as well as in the Wagn sandbox.
--Martin (Not signed in).....Thu Feb 05 09:03:44 -0800 2009
Yes, HTML is pretty restricted in Basic cards. This is by design, so that you can make Basic cards widely editable (even without being signed in) and not open up to a lot of problems. HTML cards allow any HTML.
--John Abbe.....Fri Feb 06 03:23:46 -0800 2009
Can anyone think of a problem with restricting who can view a Role?
--John Abbe.....Wed Apr 15 07:10:53 -0700 2009
Can you have a look at http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Platform ? A big chunk of the card is outside of the edit box. Thanks. cquin
--cquin.....Fri Aug 14 13:37:16 -0700 2009
Since it was right after the SKDB card inclusion, i took that out to see if it fixed it and it did. So i put it back, and edited some extra HTML cruft out of the SKDB card, and now it looks fine.
--John Abbe.....Fri Aug 14 15:14:58 -0700 2009
When I switch to HTML mode in editor, a new browser tab is opened and the browser window is resized. Is it possible to configure TinyMCE to not open a new tab?
--gcao.....Wed Feb 17 08:51:49 -0800 2010
interesting, it just opens a new window for me. wonder if that's something about your browser preferences?
--Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Feb 18 13:36:30 -0800 2010
Yeah I'm using Firefox and set to always open new window in new tab
--gcao.....Thu Feb 18 13:51:16 -0800 2010
Does Wagn provide custom authentication support? For example I would like to authenticate users based on some content in request header.
Not yet, but our recent overhaul of the account handling system (into cards) was done with a mind to opening up future pathways for kind of functionality.
A follow up question on authentication. We have have a Rails app which has a pluggable authentication module. Is it possible to use this pluggable authentication gem into Wagn or can Wagn be plugged into my rails app?
That was the plan when we reworked the account system. The general part and storage is now all in cards, so it should now be just a matter of writing the module for another authentication method. You could go outside the Wagn framework for auth and let those pages render and route as necessary, but we really favor a solution where you use Card models for data storage and views. Starting with the built-in auth, you probably just have to change most of the 'events' related to authentication.
Also, the Wagn as gem change makes in easier and more logical to use it as just another Rack application. I always intended for auth to move to one or more of the rack standards (Warden/Devise, maybe something newer).
I haven't yet tried 0.9 out but the release mentions tsearch for postgresql. I'm currently using ferret+acts as ferret and happy with them for my apps, so I ask if tsearch has significant features over ferret, just in case i need those for future apps. TIA.
--Marcello Della Longa.....Wed Jan 02 04:02:44 PST 2008
Marcello: we chose tsearch because we want to be able to integrate the text search with other constraints in a single query.
--Lewis Hoffman.....Fri Feb 08 10:23:43 PST 2008
I was wondering is there a way from this level of Wagn to import things as a set of cards, or to import more complex html (I have some freemind diagrams I would like to see how they could be used as a basis for a set of cards). Is that sort of things:
a. Available at this level or do you need to get a wagn wheels account on the server to get import tools?
b. Available at all? Do you have to manually input each card manually? What's the best part of your site to find this?
--Stephen Lee.....Sat Feb 16 06:27:33 PST 2008
We definitely want to have easy import (among many other things), but there are no import tools at present. The options are to import stuff by hand, download Wagn and do your own importing into the SQL database, or hire us to do it. --John Abbe
I'm not seeing a way to change permissions on the Options tab. There are no menus to the left of the various permission types, just links to the current permission card. Is this a problem with FIrefox?
--Tamara Temple.....Wed Feb 27 16:56:40 PST 2008
If you're logged in and have a Role that has "set card permission", you should be seeing menus. Did you look at the After installation section of Installation? --John
--John Abbe.....Thu Feb 28 09:16:48 PST 2008
What is the Hooze Bot user that comes in the default Wagn installation, and is there anything Wagn administrators can do with it?
--Scott Keeler.....Tue Mar 04 14:51:47 PST 2008
We've changed its name to Decko Bot 1; it's used right now when accounts are approved, and on cascading name changes: When you rename a card, links to that card are changed, and the revisions are attributed to the WagnBot-- the rationale is that if you didn't want to see all the cards with link fixes on recent changes you could filter out revision by the bot. (although I don't think we're actually doing that right now)
--Lewis Hoffman (Not signed in).....Tue Mar 11 10:48:07 PDT 2008
I think the other reason why we did it as the Wagn Bot was because of a permissions issue. What if I change the name of a card that is linked to from a card I don't have permission to edit. We thought this was a special case, since it tends to be beneficial to go ahead and let that person decided to change the links -- even on cards he/she can't see. It's an interesting issue that comes up when you use names as a significant identifier and yet make them fairly fluid.
I'm starting to think, though, that the better option would be to make it so that the edit is made in the name of the original person making the name change but should include. This is clearer (that's who triggered the change after all), but might include some sort of "minor" or "triggered" flag that lets us know it wasn't changed by hand.
--Ethan McCutchen.....Sun Mar 16 15:59:00 PDT 2008
This could be a good thing. No formatting buttons?
--Anonymous (Not signed in).....Wed Jun 10 20:16:54 -0700 2009
Not in comments, but when you edit a card you get them - see layout and styling.
--John Abbe.....Wed Jun 10 20:21:41 -0700 2009
Participation is nice, but is it possible to create personalized displays?
--Anonymous (Not signed in).....Fri Jun 12 08:29:58 -0700 2009
For people who have accounts, yes. When you include cards, you can use "_user" to refer to the current user; for example in the sidebar here at wagn.org we've included "_user+menu" so that each person can have their own custom card of links, etc. in their sidebar.
--John Abbe.....Sun Jun 14 00:44:40 -0700 2009
This is pretty cool. I wish double-click didn't try to edit though, I use that A LOT to select text. Hope it's optional. :-)
Not yet, but we plan to do this once we improve interface around content view inclusions. --John