TikiWiki Features

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is one of the most feature-rich CMS software packages in the World. Unlike other open source projects that ship only a small set of features and encourage 3rd party Add-ons, the Tiki community has chosen to include a very large number of features in the main code base, which helps to ensures that - unlike other projects - when you upgrade, your features will not get broken. It also permits tight integration of the various features and makes it easier for content re-use. The Wiki syntax works throughout the application. Not all features are fully developed however, so this page provides a feature rating to help judge if TikiWiki is right for you.

Table of contents

• TikiWiki Features
  • Content features
  • Navigation features
  • Transversal features (which apply to more than one section)
  • Text Area features (features you can use in all text areas, like wiki pages, blogs, articles, forums, etc)
  • Administration features
  • Advanced features for programmers
  • Other
  • General notes: About TikiWiki Features
  • Missing features
  • Standards, and interaction with other services & application

Content features

Feature name and link	Описание	Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests)	Setup/admin UI	UI end user	Stability	Feature-set / power
Articles	Fast-breaking news, announcements. Submission & approval. Topics & Types.	Articles	C	О	О	О
Forum	Online discussions on a variety of topics. Threaded or flat. File attachments, etc	Forum	B	C	B	О
Image Gallery	Collections of graphic images for viewing or downloading (photo album)	Image Gallery	B	C	B	О
Tracker	Facts and figures storage & retrieval. A forms & database generator, with reporting. Can be used for a bug tracker, item database, issue tracker, etc	Tracker	C	О	C	О
Wiki	Collaboratively authored documents with history of changes. Tiki's Wiki has all the features you could want from a first-rate wiki. Ex.: attach files, comments, history, images, warn on edit, page locking, powerful wiki syntax, etc	Wiki	О	О	О	О
Map	Navigable, interactive maps with user-selectable layers (requires mapserver)	Map	E	B	B	О
MyTiki	Provide content organization and communication tools for registered users Bookmark, User Preferences, Watch, User Menu, Task, Inter-User Messages, User Files, Notepad and Mini Calendar	MyTiki	О	О	C	B
Survey	Questionnaire with multiple choice or open ended question	Survey	О	О	B	B
Quiz	Timed questionnaire with recorded scores	Quiz			C	B
Directory (links)	User-submitted Web links	Directory			C	B
File Gallery	Computer files, videos or software for downloading	File Gallery	О	B	О	B
Calendar	Events calendar with public, private and group channels	Calendar	C	B	C	B
Featured Links	Simple menu system which can optionally add an external web page in an iframe	Featured Links	B	О	О	B
Task	To do list. Can send tasks to other users. Also shared group tasks.	Task				B
Slideshow	Turn a wiki page into slideshow by using more than one title bar in the page. You can also make slideshows from a structure. Here is a nice example of a slideshow about Using a Wiki as an Organizational Portal	Slideshow	C	B	B	B
Inter-User Messages	Enable users to send internal messages to each other. (like email but internal to your tiki site). A broadcast is a message sent to many users, the message can be sent to a Tiki group or to all users (if permissions are ok).	Inter-User Messages	B	B	О	C
Spreadsheet	Datasheets with calculations and charts	Sheet	О	О	C	C
FAQ	Frequently asked questions and answers	FAQ			C	C
Newsletters	Content mailed to registered users	Newsletters	О	О	B	C
Blog	Online diaries or journals	Blog	C	B	C	C
Live Support	One-on-one chatting with customer	Live_Support	C	B	C	C
HTML Pages	Static and dynamic HTML content. Note: HTML can be used in wiki pages. This is a separate feature.	HTML Pages	B	О		C
GMap	Use of Google Maps interactively inside Tiki, added to 1.9.4	Gmap	B	B	B	C
User Files	Users upload files and store them in their tiki personal space, they can then download the files.	User Files	C	C	B	C
Notepad	Users can write, upload, download and read notes. Notes can be read as raw text files or as Wiki pages interpreting the Wiki markup syntax. The user-quota that admin can control is used to set the maximum size that user notes can take.	Notepad				C
Chat	Real-time group text chatting	Chat	О	C	D	D
Shoutbox	Provide a graffiti box on the site's home page.	Shoutbox	О	О	О	D
Contact us	Basic form from visitor to admin	Contact us	E	О	О	D
Newsreader	NNTP newsreader	Newsreader				D
Games	Flash games	Game	D	О	О	D
Webmail	Give users Web-based access to their POP3 e-mail accounts	Webmail				E
Friendship Network	Users can identify other users as their friends.	Friendship Network		B		E
Charts	Like polls, but more feature-rich; displayed in center column	Charts	E	E	E	E
WebHelp	The generated webhelp is a static representation of the structure with a js tree that can be used to navigate the structure and a search function, print function, history and some other gizmos.	WebHelp	D	D	E	E

Navigation features

Feature name and link	Описание	Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests)	Setup/admin UI	UI end user	Stability	Feature-set / power
Category	Global category system. Items of different types (wiki pages, articles, tracker items, etc) can be added to one or many categories. Categories can have permissions.	Category	B	B	B	О
Menus	Menu items can be filtered by permission, by group or if a feature is turned on or off. Also works with phplayersmenu for nice dynamic menus.	Menu	C	О	B	О
Module	Boxes of content, typically on the left & right of portal-styles sites. Very useful for navigation & content re-use. 90+ modules available in Tiki 1.9.x Modules administrators can make many more predefined modules available and create their own using HTML.	Module	О	О	B	О
Structure	Create hierarchically organized breadcrumb navigation aids for Wiki pages, and also allow printing all pages in the structure and in the same order through an easier way than one by one.	Structure	C	B	О	О
Wiki 3D	Morcego 3D network browser Java applet	Wiki 3D	C	C	B	B
Site Identity	Site Identity feature helps an admin to simplify the customization process of his/her site. Instead of hacking the tpl files code manually you can have your own Site Header area with Site Logo and more optional elements set up directly from TikiWiki Admin section.	Site Identity	B	О	B	C
Custom Home	If enabled, a customized page will serve as the home page for the Tiki. Custom home page by default group is also possible	Custom Home	B		О	C
Meta Tags	Administer your meta tags via the admin panel (no FTPing)	Meta Tags	B		О	C
Tags	Tags (or freetags) are the folksonomy implementation of TikiWiki, coming to Tiki 1.10	Tags		B		C
Search Engine Friendly	Tiki is search engine friendly. If you are using Apache, you can rename _htaccess to .htaccess to get Short URLs	Search Engine Friendly				C
Bookmarks	User bookmarks let users bookmark internal or external pages, create folders and organize their personal bookmarks in folders. Bookmarks can be cached if that option is enabled. A module is provided to let the users see their bookmarks, navigate through them, and add new bookmarks.	Bookmarks				unrated
User Menu	Add personal items to the User Menu section in the application menu.	User Menu				unrated

Transversal features (which apply to more than one section)

Feature name and link	Описание	Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests)	Setup/admin UI	UI end user	Stability	Feature-set / power
Compression	Transparently compress your pages on-the-fly, if the requesting browser supports this	compression	О	О	B	О
Theme	35 built-in themes. Easy to add more or to create your own.	Theme	C	B	B	О
RSS	Generates RSS feeds and RSS feeds can be included in Tiki.	RSS	B	B	B	О
Interaction with popular external softtware, services or websites	For example: Google video, Google Maps, YouTube, Skype, Google AdSense, Mindmap and many more!	Interaction				О
i18n	Tiki is translated in 30 languages. Handles multilingual navigation & content. Can link to Babelfish.	i18n	C	B	B	B
Js calendar	js calendar is a nice date & time picker optional in calendar and trackers.	js calendar	B	B	E	B
Comment	Quick feedback available for many features (wiki pages, articles, blogs, etc)	Comment	B	B	B	B
Mobile Tiki & Voice Tiki	Provide voice-based browsing capability and WAP / PDA / i-mode / etc for Web-enabled cell phones. http://mobile.tikiwiki.org	Mobile	B	B	B	B
Watch	Receive an email when an item is updated	Watch	B	B	C	B
Freetags	Folksonomy tagging		О	B	C	B
Mods	A new tool for distribution, install, upgrade and removal of TikiWiki components, also called mods.	mods	E	B	D	C
Stats	Site-wide statistics for many features. Referrer stats and search stats also available.	Stats	B	B	C	C
Banners	Insert, track, and manage advertising banners.	Banners	B	О	B	C
Rating	Lets users vote on wiki pages & tracker items	Rating	D	B	D	C
Search	internal search engine which indexes through many features	Search	C	C	C	C
Contribution	Allow selecting, reporting and exporting the type of contributions of your users. (only for TikiWiki = 1.10+)	Contribution	О	О	B	C
Score	This feature is a game to motivate people to participate in the community. Users are given points for things they do in the site, like writing an article, reading an article, starting a new topic in forum, voting a poll, etc. They also earn points by being popular, like having his/her blogs and articles read and commented. Then the users will be able to see their position in a ranking.	Score				C
Karma	Vote comments from 1 (poor) to 5 (very cool)	Karma	D	D	D	D
Mail-In	Submit Wiki pages or articles via e-mail.	Mail-In				unrated
Accessibility	Web accessibility	Accessibility				unrated
PDF	Generate a PDF version	PDF				unrated

Text Area features (features you can use in all text areas, like wiki pages, blogs, articles, forums, etc)

Feature name and link	Описание	Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests)	Setup/admin UI	UI end user	Stability	Feature-set / power
Wiki Plugin	About 50 Wiki plugins extend the function of wiki syntax with more specialized commands. It is very easy to create your own plugins	Wiki Plugin	B	B	B	О
Wiki Syntax	Apply formatting without learning & using HTML. Usable throughout various features, not just the wiki!	Wiki Syntax	B	B	B	О
Dynamic Content System	Bloc of content which can be reused and programmed (timed).	Dynamic Content System	C	О	О	О
QuickTags	Those little icons on the left the edit page : you click on it and a javascript is used to insert a tag in the textarea, depending on your actual selection. Useful to add wiki syntax. You can create your own quicktags.	Quicktags	C	C	B	О
CODE plugin	Displays a snippet of code		B	B	C	B
Flash Plugin	Can add flash to a wiki page, an article, etc		B	О	B	B
Drawings	Drawing engine inside wiki pages using JGraphPad, a powerful java drawing applet.	Drawings	B	B	D	B
External Wikis	Create links easily with other wikis.		B	B	О	C
Table of content	A table of content generated automatically from a list of headers.		О	C	О	C
Cookie	Taglines drawn randomly from tagline database	Cookie	B	B	О	C
Hotwords	If enabled, Wiki pages are parsed and some words are automatically converted to HTML links.	Hotwords				C
Cache	External URLs can be cached inside TikiWiki - this is possible for links from the Wiki as well as for the User Bookmarks		B	B	О	C
Content Template	Choice of pre-filled texts for Wiki pages, articles, newsletters and html pages to give a consistent look and feel.	Content Template	B	B	B	C
Polls	Brief list of votable options; appears in module (left or right column)	Polls	B	О	C	C
Dynamic Variable	Snippets of text which can be reused throughout Tiki.	Dynamic Variable	C			C
Smiley	Love them or hate them!	Smiley	О	О	О	C
Copyright	The Copyright Management System (or ©MS) is a way of licensing your content, typically under and open or free content license. By switching this feature on you can define a content license for all your wiki content, associate copyright notices with individual pages and even display a full license for printing.	Copyright	D			C
Spellcheck		Spellcheck	D	C	D	D
PluginModule	Insert a module in a Wiki page, an article, etc					unrated

Administration features

Feature name and link	Описание	Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests)	Setup/admin UI	UI end user	Stability	Feature-set / power
Permission	Different rights can be assigned to groups. (ACLs)	Permission	C		О	О
Theme Control	Using multiple Themes / Styles on your Tiki site	Theme	О	О	О	О
Cacheing	Tiki uses the Smarty template engine's built-in cache		О	О	B	О
User Administration	Registration, Login & Banning	User Administration				О
Group	Groups can be included in groups to inherit permissions.	Group				О
Edit CSS	Can create (via the browser) new css suffixed with -user	theme				B
Communication Center	Send/receive objects to and from other Tiki-powered sites	Communication Center	B	О	О	B
Intertiki	Authenticate users based on users data from external tiki. (several "slave" sites and a "master" site). Groups & setting can be transferred. Introduced in Tiki 1.9.3.	Intertiki	D	C	D	B
External Authentication	Can use LDAP (Active Directory), PAM, Auth, Http web server or CAS. In 1.10 Shibboleth	External Authentication				B
Installation	A wizard installer script + profile selector	Install	C		B	B
Action log	Follow what a user is doing on a single or multiple users, groups or categories basis. New to Tiki 1.10	Action log	B	B	B	C
Banning	Block access from individual IPs or ranges of IPs.	Banning				C
Phpinfo	Added a phpinfo link to check your php installation in the admin menu.					C
Backup	tiki-backup.php is to make a backup of your data via Tiki. Use of this feature is NOT recommended. Please use phpMyAdmin instead.	Backup	E		E	D
Edit Template	Edit SMARTY templates.	Theme				unrated

Advanced features for programmers

Feature name and link	Описание	Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests)	Setup/admin UI	UI end user	Stability	Feature-set / power
Workflow	Galaxia is a open source activity-based Workflow engine. http://workflow.tikiwiki.org	Workflow	E		B	О
Integrator	Automatically import external HTML pages into Tiki.	Integrator	D	B	B	B
SQL plugin	Display select queries in your wiki pages		C	C		B
Debugger Console	Debugger Console for programmers	Debugger Console				B

Other

Feature name and link	Описание	Dev (Bug reports & Feature requests)
We eat our own DogFood	Tiki is a community. Tiki is a software.
Open development	Written and maintained by an active and international community of volunteer contributors. While many developers offer consuting services, no company controls the development. Think of Tiki as applying the wiki way but not just to content but to software development as well. YOU are invited to participate!"
Open standards & protocols	Tiki developers are Tiki users too and prefer open protocols and standards. http://tikiwiki.org/TikiStandards
Database independance	Tiki uses the ADOdb database abstraction library so Tiki works with many databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)	Database mysql Database independance
Platform independence	Tiki runs wherever PHP runs, on Linux, Mac, Windows and many more other operating systems.	Platform independence
Browser Compatibility	On the client side, all you need is a Web browser such as Firefox, Konqueror, Internet Explorer and many more.	Browser Compatibility
Documentation	Tiki's documention is handled on a wiki (of course!). So you can participate! The are links from your installed Tiki application directly to the corresponding documentation wiki page. Many links are broken because of a major reorganization. Please bear with us and participate!	Documentation

General notes: About TikiWiki Features

Tiki Wiki/CMS/Groupware offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box", arguably more than any other Open Source Web Application. It's so feature-rich that it can be overwhelming, even to an experienced user or administrator. Tiki has all the classic CMS/portal features but also has some features not yet available in other similar applications. Highly configurable & modular, all the features are optional and administered via a web-based interface. What makes Tiki so powerful is the tight integration of all the features.

Tiki is a very active project. On average, there is a commit to the code (a bugfix, a new feature, etc) every 2 hours. So, over time, features get better. It is an Open source project so you too can participate to make it better!

Over 200 people have contributed to the source code. Some features are widely used & very stable while others are unmaintained or buggy. The self-evaluation above will help you know what to expect. All features are optional so you can pick & choose what you need for your project. If you are are beginner, stick to features which have mostly As & Bs.

To enhance the list above, please login and click the name of the feature. Please fill in the missing information and correct what you feel is incorrect. Say you feel a feature X deserves a B instead of a D, then please go ahead! (All changes will be reviewed by a project admin, and reverted if need be.) You can also add comments. For example: "I believe this feature will deserve a "B" when this option is offered"

If you are reporting a bug or suggesting a feature enhancement, please use our bugs & wishlist tracker. Features & ratings below are based on the latest stable version of Tiki (1.9.7 as of now). However not all feature have yet been added above. Many plugins are missing, for instance.

Missing features

By now (if you read this far!), you must be thinking "Wow, what does this thing not do?". Please see "Major Features Missing In TikiWiki"

Standards, and interaction with other services & application

Please see: Interaction for dozens of examples

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