History: Profile Developer Documentation

Once you are using and creating profiles, here is how to develop/improve the profile system itself. For example, to add support for additional features.

Profiles are a unified textual representation of tikiwiki configuration. These pages document the various elements currently supported. The implementation is still under development and subject to changes. Some concepts apply globally and some are specific to content types. Handlers define the content type specific properties.

For an explanation on how to apply profiles, see Administration Interface. See Custom Repository for how to create profiles on sites other than profiles.tikiwiki.org.

Basic Syntax

These syntax elements are the base of profiles. They explain how to set preferences, handle permissions and how objects relate to each other.

• Preference Management for setting global configurations
• Object References for handling relationships between content elements
• Permission Management to control access rights
• User Input to allow users to customize some elements just before the profile is applied
• Date Conversion to map human readable date formats to the internal structures
• Instructions to redirect to a page after the profile has been applied

Currently Supported Handlers

These pages explain the data structures used in the profiles to manipulate the different content types used inside tikiwiki.

• Article Handler
• Blog Handler
• Category Handler
• File Gallery Handler
• Forum Handler
• Menu Handler
• Module Handler
• Perspective Handler
• Plugin Alias Handler
• RSS Handler
• Template Handler
• Tracker Handler
• Transition Handler
• Webservice Handler
• Wiki Handler

Handlers for testing purposes

• Users Handler

Extensions

• Profiles as Data Channels