Recommendations for improving omCollab

[Sean.mcclowry]

Does anyone have any recommendations for improving omCollab?

[Rice]

Dear omCollab team,

I've a question about your release version of omCollab. That's whether it includes phpBB module besides wiki, blog, bmarks and explore. I've downloaded current version. There's no phpBB module integratied with it.

BTW, It's a perfect software for me to build a collaboration community website. And MIKE is a good methdology for reference in IM.

Rice

[Sean.mcclowry]

Hi Rice,

Glad to hear omCollab and MIKE2.0 are helping out!

All the code is available here:
http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/trac/omcollab

With the latest release that includes the forum code being here: http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/trac/omcollab/browser/trunk

We've been a bit bad about creating packages as we've been working off our subversion release. I'll creating a packaged version at let you know when it is available.

Sean

[Sean.mcclowry]

Rice,

I have posted the packaged version of the code here:
http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/Installing_omCollab#Downloads

You can also find bugs and post feature requests here: http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/trac/omcollab/report/1

Hope this helps!

[Rice]

Hi Sean,

Thanks for your prompt response. It's very helpful for me to find the code.

I would continute to use and upgrade the software. I hope omCollab will have a easy way to upgrade because of being some live sites.

Even though i didn't go through the source code, I want to know how to solve the SSO problem of session expiration among these open source packages. Do you configure the same expiration time or use another method to solve?

Just I've tested the package with forum. It seems errors ocurr under the situation which omcollab is not installed on htdocs.

Relative directory error should be found in forum style template, such as overall_header.html

maybe the followings are right

1. overall_header.html [99,100,110]

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   require_once( str_replace( '\\', '/', realpath("..")) . '/common/omconfig.php' );


2. overall_footer.html [44,45]

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   require_once( str_replace( '\\', '/', realpath("..")) . '/common/omconfig.php' );
   include( str_replace( '\\', '/', realpath("..")) . '/common/skins/mike2/footer.php' );


3. omconfig.php

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# [ path definitions (FS = File System) ]
#define( 'OMCOLLAB_DOCROOT'             , $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] );
define( 'OMCOLLAB_DOCROOT'             , str_replace( '\\', '/', realpath("..")) );
define( 'FS_COMMON_DIRECTORY'          , dirname(__file__) );
define( 'FS_COMMON_SKIN_DIRECTORY'     , FS_COMMON_DIRECTORY . '/skins/' . OMCOLLAB_SKIN_DIRNAME );
#define( 'FS_FORUM_ROOT'        , OMCOLLAB_DOCROOT . RR_OMCOLLAB_DIRECTORY . 'forum/');
define( 'FS_FORUM_ROOT'    , OMCOLLAB_DOCROOT . '/forum/');


Then my site is OK now.

Thanks & Regards,

Rice

[Sean.mcclowry]

Thanks for the help Rice - I am having issues installing on another platform and this may be causing the issue ..
I have forwarded this to Dave
http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/User:Dave.Wiggins as he actually wrote this code for the forum integration and knows it like the back of his hand ... so he would be good to loop into this discussion. The other good guy to connect with is Andi
http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/User:Andreas.rindler.

We use omCollab on a couple sites and we spent a fair amount of time on creating some deployment scripts so we could do upgrades easily. MIKE2.0 runs on linux and our internal environment runs on windows so we've got pretty good coverage. Some of these scripts put in some local variables, but we should able to scrub them and post them so they can be used by the community.

Sorry re: opening tickets - I thought we had self registration on trac. We'll see if we can enable this as we are behind a couple versions. You can also submit without registering.

[Rice]

Sean,

Thanks. I'll try to help build chinese language package for omCollab. But i'm afraid that upgrade is a tough task for language package.

Thank again for efforts.

Rice

[Sean.mcclowry]

Rice - that would be great - if you are starting on something like this let me know - I know some others that might be able to help.

[Rice]

Thanks. I am going to build chinese version based on omcollab_1.009.0. If any problem, I will issue it.

My idea is simple which is to use wordpress, mediawiki and phpbb chinese language pack and then try to find some other contents to translate. Should I use language pack or translate omCollab content to chinese directly just like this.

D:\Projects\omcollab_1.009.0\common\skins\mike2\header.php[38-46]

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<table id="app-switcher" cellpadding="0"  cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><div id="app1"><a href="<?php echo $omCollabAppURLs[WIKI]      ?>">genUnifiedEncodingString("知识库")</a></div></td>
<td><div id="app2"><a href="<?php echo $omCollabAppURLs[BLOGS]     ?>">genUnifiedEncodingString("个人专栏")</a></div></td>
<td><div id="app3"><a href="<?php echo $omCollabAppURLs[BOOKMARKS] ?>">genUnifiedEncodingString("书签")</a></div></td>
<td><div id="app4"><a href="<?php echo $omCollabAppURLs[FORUM]    ?>">genUnifiedEncodingString("论坛")</a></div></td>
<td><div id="app5"><a href="<?php echo $omCollabAppURLs[SEARCH]     ?>">Explore</a></div></td>
</tr>
</table>


Keep it in touch.

Rice

[Andreas.rindler]

The file http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/tra ... ttings.php includes a variable to indicate language:

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$wgLanguageCode     = "en";

en becomes zh when you want Mediawiki to use Chinese. We could easily move the variable into http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/tra ... config.php which will set in /common/ after a successful installation. And from there it can be made accessible to all other code. So your logic could check for $wgLanguageCode in omconfig.php and then display the correct language text. The language files (or also often called internationalisation files - i18n) could site in a subfolder in http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/tra ... kins/mike2. Like here http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/tra ... Cloud/i18n.

Thanks,
Andi