Hi phppp,

Thank you for the links. The information is very helpful.

I'm looking forward to the detailed roadmap for XOOPS 3.0/4.0

Hi Giba,

Thank you for the link. The list has some very exciting features. I hope that they all get included in the new version.

Is this roadmap list something that anyone can add suggestions to?

Will there be a final official roadmap at some point in the future?

Is there a documented development roadmap available for the next version of XOOPS? If there is, where would I find it?

I know that a roadmap was made a long time ago, but I'm assuming it is out of date, since the direction on some things has changed.

Hi trspice,

You may want to take a look at the Mastop Publish module. It is a type of page management system, where you can create pages of content and subpages of each page. It has a very impressive menu management system, which makes it easy to create directory or catalog type systems. I just started experimenting with this particular module, since I need to make my own directory/catalog type feature on my site. It looks like it is going to meet my needs.

However, this may not be a solution for your particular needs, especially if you need more of an event driven catalog search engine, or want something more automated/structured (as far as how you add and manage categories, dates, images, etc.). It primarily focuses on giving you a framework for creating and organizing pages in a hierachy, and it looks like it does a great job of that. It relies primarily on the manual coding of your own pages (although it comes with a lot of great formatting tools).

Anyway, I'm not sure if this will help at all, but figured I would mention it anyway. Below is the link to the module developer's site, where you can download the latest version.

Mastop Publish Link

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I'm laughing about it now, but at the time was thinking it would be one of those unsolvable bugs. I need to be more optimistic when I run into problems!

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I did that after I finally figured out what was going on. The funny thing is that I went through all the preference settings before thinking there was a problem. I was looking for a setting that said "date/display range" or something like that, and missed that setting, and then assumed it was possibly a bug.

I want to apologize for my earlier post. I should have looked more carefully before posting here. The default display range was set to "From last 100 days", which correctly excluded the topics/posts I thought should be appearing. I reset the range to "From the beginning", and now the posts are displaying.

I usually notice very obvious things like that right away, but this time assumed there was a bug right away. I think that I'm exhausted from spending so many hours trying to get my site online.

For some reason, the posts within the forums do not show up on my site when I click on a forum link. On the main forum index page, everything looks fine. All the forums are displayed with all the correct post counts and last postings. However, when I try to navigate to a specific forum, everything is there except for the posts. The header for posts is there and the sort options (and everything else that is supposed to be there), but there are no posts. If I navigate to all postings, all the postings show up. I just cannot display them by forum.

Do I have something set wrong or is this a bug?

Here are my thoughts on the subject:

I've also been very frustrated with lack of response to the majority of my questions, especially on the support sites of module developers. I'm actually giving up on using a very good module, because I cannot get any questions answered, not even a hint where to look for the answers. As much as I love the module, I cannot effectively use it without knowing the answers to my questions.

In my opinion, support should be made a priority for XOOPS and it's modules. Empowering users to effectively and successfully use XOOPS is what will drive the success of XOOPS and any XOOPS modules. If there is a significant portion of XOOPS members who become frustrated to the point of giving up on XOOPS or just putting out poor quality implementations of XOOPS, then that is going to have a very negative impact on both the public perception of XOOPS, and the future community support for XOOPS. With more users successfully utilizing XOOPS and its modules, there will be better public perception of XOOPS and more momentum and enthusiasm from the XOOPS community itself.

The key here is support! Developing an efficient and responsive support system for XOOPS and it's modules will be a major factor in driving the success of XOOPS. XOOPS will only be successful in the future if the people who use it are successful with it!

Furthermore, I have no issue with module developers who develop free XOOPS modules to help indirectly promote their own software business and web sites. I think that they deserve to have business opportunities, since they have volunteered much of their time to the XOOPS community. However, I think it is in their best interest to provide effective support to the users of their free modules. If potential clients see how successfully their free modules are being utilized by the XOOPS community, then that will be a great selling point for their services or fee based products! Seeing a forum with hundreds of unanswered questions and struggling users will turn away potential clients. Potential clients place a priority on support. The best product in the world is useless if the end user cannot utilize it effectively.

The most successful open source products of the future will be the products that provide the best support. The support of a product is just as important as the programming code behind the product.

Check your topics in the topics manager. There is a setting called Publish in front page. I just noticed that the category of articles not showing up had that setting turned off in the topics manager. When I turned it back on, the articles started showing again.

I have no idea how or why that setting suddenly changed, since I've not used the topics manager in months. I played around with some other administrative settings, but never went near the topics manager. The articles have that setting too.

Thus, you may want to check that setting on your own site.

Hope this helps!

Dave

Hi konadu,

I'm using News 1.53 and have the same problem. Sometimes not all the news articles show up on the main index page. All the articles show up in the module blocks and spotlight, but are not all displayed in the index. If I select the category of the missing articles in the navigation box, the missing articles then show up. They just don't all show up in the main index when all categories are supposed to be showing.

I cannot even guess what could be causing that, since the bug doesn't always occur. Bugs are usually very consistent when and where they appear, but there is nothing consistent about this.