Suggestions

VERY SIMPLE CHANGE

The _Forgot page emails users their username and password if they have forgotten it. The title of the page should be Forgot Password or User Name instead of Forgot Password, since both are sent via email. My users get very confused if they forgot the username since they do not know that they can use that page to retrieve it. This is a simple change that makes life easier.

When approving a new registered user, the administration has three options: Locked, Administrator, and Registered. It would be also useful to have a fourth option: Delete (which would delete an user that is asking for registration).

pjaffe, the cache setting for attachments is a trade-off. A very small subset of EditMe customers make heavy use of frequently updated attachments, and for these customers the setting can be understandably troublesome. It should be configurable at the site level, so let that be the suggestion. For the vast majority of EditMe sites, this setting provides a noticable performance improvement and allows customers to use considerably less bandwidth.

It seems that all wiki pages are delivered with the no-cache directive.  However, links for the most recent file attachment appear to have a 1 hour expiration (I mean the links that appear in the attachments table that don't contain the .version. qualifier and just pull the latest version).  As a result, users can inadventantly continue to get an older version for an hour after a new version is actually available.  Is there a reason not to just use the no-cache directive across the board?

On behalf of geofff in [[Questions]]: The JavaScript API is lacking access to page version and recent history information.

From Carl via support ticket:

Might you consider adding to the detailed logs a record of each time a user logs-in, noting the username that logged-in?

This would be most helpful to see users that have been given view-only accounts to determine if/when they actually log-in to view the material we have posted for them.

I know the detailed logs today do show all accesses, but they are are only indexed by IPaddrress. To find if such a read-only user has actually logged-in, (who's IPaddr you do not know ahead of time), you need to parse the logs and exclude all previously known IPaddr to see what reamins.

On behalf of support ticket: Track user access information (who has logged in, when and how often).

On behalf of Mark: Please could you make the Page Security "Replace Security on the Pages below with" behave like the "Users" page with check boxes beside each item and a "Check All", "Check None" option? When I want to change security on a lot of pages e.g. where i move one branch of the tree to an area of my site that has different security i have to go edit the properties of each page one at a time. with the proposed change this task would be very easy.

Suggestion emailed from Marius: When hyperlinking text and selecting Link List, the name of the page in this list doesn't change even if you rename it. This list should be the same as the list you see when you go to the Index.

The login screen has a link that says "Forgot your password" It would be useful if it said "Forgot your password or user name" since if you click on it it asks your email address and sends both automatically.

Infrequent users may have forgotten both the user name and password!

This is a very easy change that would be very  helpful.

On behalf of customer: Off-line capability.

Automated references / footnotes such that the numbered footnote gets appended to the end of page, ordered.

Re: Recent Changes email

 I agree with Duff about the importance of aggregating all the changes in the same page. In fact, if you look at the RSS feed for the changes, the changes are aggregated.

FONT SIZE IN THE EDITOR

I spent several hours adding a large fornt size for the first paragraph on each of my pages using the "font size" drop menu in the editor. Eventually, I discovered that in some modern browsers the font did not change size. This is because the "font size" drop menu adds a <font> tag which now is becoming obsolete and not recognized by some modern browners!  

 I would recommend that editme eliminates the font size menu from the editor (or implements it without the <font> tag) to avoid problems for other users.

I solved my problem by simply using the format drop menu, which adds <h> tags instead of <font> tags.

Re: Recent Changes email.

Currently, files uploaded or Comments added to a page appear to trigger a subtly  separate notification from simple page edits. This separate notification reports just the page-name, not the page title.  Example....

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Changes made to ### in the last 2 hours:

B036 Manage Internet Access settings not honored
http://###.editme.com/B036
10/12/07 10:26 AM - File 'importtest.fdf' Uploaded by ###

B036
http://###.editme.com/B036
10/12/07 10:25 AM - Page Edited by ###: added example file
10/12/07 10:20 AM - File 'importtest.pdf' Uploaded by ###
10/12/07 10:18 AM - Comment Added by ###: Dina, I uploaded a simple sample file

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IMHO, the correct notification encompassing the above would have been:

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B036 Manage Internet Access settings not honored
http://###.editme.com/B036
10/12/07 10:26 AM - File 'importtest.fdf' Uploaded by ###
10/12/07 10:25 AM - Page Edited by ###: added example file
10/12/07 10:20 AM - File 'importtest.pdf' Uploaded by ###
10/12/07 10:18 AM - Comment Added by ###: Dina, I uploaded a simple sample file

Hola de Barcelona

I'd like a Global Search and Replace feature, as mentioned in previous suggestions (e.g. of 2006/02/09).

This would be perfect when you need to change some standard text - e.g. headings, intros - to something else. Would save having to re-visit every page.

Must be easy to implement, I would imagine.  

Wouldn't it be nice if you could:
1. Automatically generate top-3 lists to your front page of:
  * most watched pages
  * most edited pages
  * most recently edited pages
  * most active users of your site.
  The list would neet to exclude some non-content pages.
2. Have an easier way to put a counter in an editme-site.

blueBarn, the way this is traditionally accomplished with wikis is for each user to create a page with their user name. They can upload photos and populate it with anything they like. If you want to use a template, you can create a Profile page template and ask users to select that when creating their page. You can also create these pages for them as an administrator.

EditMe looks like it does everything I would like to do, but one thing I haven't seen is the ability to have user create user profiles (like facebook w/ a pic & a bit about themselves).  Is there a way to accomplish this?  I will use EditMe as part of our intranet to act as a blog & as a wiki.  Thanks 

From a customer: Add the ability to make fields required in the Email Form feature.

It would be nice if EditMe branched out a little and offered full site hosting with the Wiki product as part of the package.

Right now i have my wiki connected to my main site and because of Edit Me's great templating system, no one can tell the difference, but why have two hosting companies when I could just do it all from here!

I would gladly move my site over and pay extra a month for the convience of hosting my regular site and the wiki all in one place.

I think it would be nice if you allowed users to upload and delete files from the root of the site!

The "Recent Changes" emails that are auto-generated by our editme wiki only give a brief description of what has changed.  They cut off after a pre-defined number of characters.  For example, an update might say something like:

PageTitle
http://ourwiki.editme.com/PageTitle
7/27/07 12:00 AM - Comment added by User: I have this important change to the wiki.  Let me tell you...

I have searched all the pages I can find on wiki.editme pertaining to the update emails and have come up blank.  Is it possible, or will it be possible in the future, to have the full comment included in the "Recent Changes" email?   

Thank you so much!

The option to export to PDF. I've seen these generators on some WYSIWYG editors like that of phpmyfaq etc.

I would love to have a tag that I could place on any page that would list all of the backlinks for that page.

(moved from Questions page) [Reto, 2007-01-09] When I insert an anchor (WYSIWYG) and then click "clean up messy code" everything gets screwed up (actually tons of new identical anchors are created throughout the page)!? By the way: the behavior differs between IE and Firefox, but both have very devastating effects.

Wouldn't it be great if ...... a "watch this page" function was available for users to monitor changes to selected pages.

Wouldn't it be great if new users could register and the security settings could be managed so he/she could automatically create a new page without having access to edit other peoples pages.  This function can be set up using "Sticky Pages" under "Policies" but requires the adminitrator to set up the first page for the new user with the required security settings.   This will cause the Index to become overcrowded with pages which may remain blank.  A separate "policy" is also required for each New User which may become quite cumbesome if membership grows.

When choosing “Security” for a page, it would be extremely helpful to me to be able to pick a combination of groups as opposed to only being able to choose only one.

Groups are very helpful; however, I am facing situations when I want to give access to a page to all the members of a group + a specific individual who is not and should not be part of the group.  There are other situations where I would like to give access to all the members of a group + all the members of another group.  Right now, I solve the problem by creating new groups. For example:

Group K = Group A + Group X (GroupX being a group that only includes user X)

Group O = Group B + Group D

I then choose Group K or Group O in the Security pull down menu

However the number of combination Groups (such as K and O above) in increasingly rapidly. It would be great to be able to have a Security pull down menu where I could CTRL Click several groups and get the logical OR of these groups which would show in the Security Menu (e.g. Automotive + John + Ann) so that I can go back at a later time to check who has access to that page.

Thanks

From customer support request: If I forget my password I have to change it, as you send the password in an open email. These days the industry norm is to send a link to an "Enter New Password" page (usually with an activation key in the email) - could you implement this?

It would be nice if one of the options under registrations was an optiont o link to an external database to get username and password information. This might be a little tricky but all you would need to do is ask for a few things

database server

database name

table name

username field

password field

password encryption (how the password is encrypted in the table, if any... this would have to be a drop down of known types like md5 etc.)

 With that information, the wiki could easily authenticate off of any database.

[originally from Ewan] (moved from the Questions page) Date Format - Can I encourage you to do something about date formats to make this service usable in Europe where 9/11 is the 9 of November. For example when you at page version the date is shown as m/d/yy a simple solution is to use mmmm/d/yy eg. Sept 9 07 (which works for English speakers at least) It also work in all the other European languages (mmm works for all but French) I have had to abandon using other US based service because ambiguous dates like 9/11 cause  much confusion

The following properties would be more than welcome:
1) Captchas to email forms
2) Possibility to edit system files by admin or as chargable customer service, or customisable registeration forms

On behalf of user support ticket: Email warning system for bandwidth overuse (or projected overuse) ... prior to disabling the site.

On behalf of user support ticket: "I was thinking it would be nice to have a special tag in editme that could be used to hide content in a page from everyone except administrators... or maybe even something that hides it from everyone except logged in users.

I know that this is possible by using includes, however, there are a lot of times when I am creating a page, I want to add a sentance or a few notes that I don't want others to see, just the admins, it'd be really convienent to just have a tage I could insert like [Hide] or something where anything between the starting and ending tags is hidden from everyone except the admins."