Hello all:
I am working on an implementation of ACS 4.2 for a non-profit in
my area. I have encountered some problems and I posted some of them
on the aD bboard. Most remain unanswered. I did get some good info
when I dug deeper on the boards and found specific problems relating
to what I had encountered. When I asked people "Can you send me the
link to ..." I mostly got good responses.
I still currently think that there are not many people
implementing this system and it is evident that aD is not interested
in this level. So, I have been digging to solve these issues myself
and I will create a FAQ about this system, so someone else can get
past these problems very easily (and hopefully move on to higher-
level issues with the system). I have read some of the voluminous
talk about the need for FAQs so I will follow this and post mine when
it is useful.
From some people's posts I have gotten the impression, that these
are old problems or ones people have worked around. But there are a
large number of posts (on the aD board at least) which have no
replies at all, so knowledge transfer seems broken (or at least very
inefficient).
Against Don's suggestion, I have decided not to make all of
this first wave of issues individual problem listings. I thought
about grouping them, but they could lead in many directions towards
resolution, so for now I will leave the detail out on my own test site, rather than cross-posting them here. In
this append, I have added a one-line crux to each report. If we think
others can benefit, I can be convinced to be a polluter/dumper.
Finally, I will get the SDM stuff going and make sure than any
assigned component owners have the specific details about the level I
am running and exact conditions to recreate the error (or
fix/workaround I come up with). I do believe that several of these
must be fixed to create a usable OACS 4.x Tcl implementation.
Even though this list looks long, and will grow, overall I am
encouraged and hopeful about the likelihood of a successful 4.x
launch in a few months.
Your thoughts are solicted and greatly appreciated...
Regards..
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(we used to call this the) Hurt Sheet - details are posted here..
- Spam blows immediately - probably a simple spam_create.sql
problem
- CMS - own login?/own skin? - I wanted to use this app, but
it seems non-integrated
- Group types? - I currently view this as serious, but maybe
a simple UI fix will be enough
- context sporadically used/ "how do I get back?" - this is
another serious UI one; maybe (hopefully) only for an administrator
- PA should check for Imagemagick - simple install
issue;presumably trivial to fix
- news should pre-req GC - simple install issue;presumably
trivial to fix
- grant screen dumps uids into dd-listbox (JG) - JG had
this; this must be fixed
- "which permission are used by/for which applications?" -
might be able to fix this with some help screens
- skin customization - seems to work but poor doc and error-
checking (so prone to error)
- chat dependency - simple install issue;presumably trivial
to fix
- Pretty name collision - this is a major problem; not sure
yet whether the fix is easy; again maybe just UI
- moderated bboard only for initial message?! - maybe a
small fix
- news comments admin - this is a stupid permission issue;
maybe a small fix
- Portlets unpackaged - lack of integration here makes
Portal still a custom app (i.e. cannot be delegated to non-
programmer!)
- Portal initial setup/one instance?!? - I am still trying
to understand the implications of one portal per subsite; somebody
supposedly tested thousands of sub-sites
- permissions screen dump, only tcl!? - unusable, serious
and must be worked around or hidden completely