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XOOPS: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

Posted by: carnukeOn 2004/10/19 14:20:00 9257 reads

The XOOPS Documentation Team is pleased to announce the publication of the "The Operation Guide"

This is a lengthy and comprehensive guide to 'what is this' and 'how do I do this...' concerning the administration of a XOOPS2 website.

It details all the menus, functions and requirements of the admin pages, describing simple operations like uploading avatars to more complex setups of the group permissions and positioning blocks.

The file is available as an online guide and also as downloadable files in .chm, .zip and .pdf formats.

Although this file is credited to Horacio Salazar I would also like to credit all the members of the Documentation team for their research and contributions to this document and especially to Robekras for excellent xDocMan module that displays these files. This module is responsible for the conversion of xml files into various formats suitable for online viewing and file retrieval. This provides a well formatted and multiple outputs to suit all users.

Please visit the Official Documents link or download directly the files here:

Online version
.CHM file
.ZIP file
.PDF file

Richard

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Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

jegelstaff Published 10/21/2004 0:54 Module Developer Joined 07/02/2004 Comments 518

This is great work, a very, very useful addition to the XOOPS documentation! Thanks.

--Julian

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

hsalazar Published 10/21/2004 3:37 Just popping in Joined 02/06/2003 Comments 78

I'm very glad this lengthy document has finally seen the light. As Richard says, correctly, the attribution that includes my name there does little justice to the real writers of this guide. As a matter of fact, I did little more than the table of contents (and only the first draft) and then the first chapter. The credit should go then to the real documentation team. Congratulations on a job well done!

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

wcrwcr Published 10/21/2004 7:23 Home away from home Joined 12/12/2003 Comments 1114

Hola hsalazar

Nice work!

All efforts on this matter will be always appreciated

Thanks hsalazar and documentation team.

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

Oesie Published 10/21/2004 7:25 Just popping in Joined 06/01/2004 Comments 41

Although I found out almost everything by my own I've to agree that this is a must for XOOPS itself.

It gives a great support for new users and it will take away a lot of (newbie) questions. I hope that the XOOPS community will continue documenting for other sections aswell.

Great work guys!

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

amayer Published 10/21/2004 7:54 Friend of XOOPS Joined 10/18/2003 Comments 82

This is really really excellent! Well done to everybody involved. This will help give XOOPS the professional image that it needs.

By the way, what is the license for this documentation? Can it be copied? Can it be modified by anybody? What are the distribution restrictions etc. Maybe I've missed something, but I couldn't see anything about that stated at the beginning of the document.

Andy

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Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

MadFish Published 10/21/2004 8:45 Friend of XOOPS Joined 09/27/2003 Comments 1056

I think the docs are intended to fall under the GNU Free Documentation License, maybe Carnuke or Herko can confirm.

You can certainly copy and distribute the file. The GNUFDL has some restrictions on modification but they are nothing onerous.

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

amayer Published 10/21/2004 9:19 Friend of XOOPS Joined 10/18/2003 Comments 82

If you could confirm that, that would be great. I guess the best way would be to actually write the license on the docs themselves.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

irmtfan Published 10/21/2004 9:49 Module Developer Joined 12/07/2003 Comments 3419

it seems XOOPS pass the only lack. documentation !
thank u for this

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.-great work

phpsharma Published 10/21/2004 11:21 Updated 10/21/2004 11:27 Just popping in Joined 09/23/2004 Comments 16

Great work. very usefull for newbies as well as experienced.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

Flazz Published 10/21/2004 11:37 Just popping in Joined 05/14/2004 Comments 36

FANTASTIC!!!!!
this must of taken alot of blood sweat and tears
well done guys

Just one thing does this men if I ask a nooby question in the forum peeps are just going to shout "ITS IN THE BOOK!"

nice work guys

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

Mithrandir Published 10/21/2004 11:46 XOOPS is my life! Joined 06/21/2003 Comments 6320

Quote:

Just one thing does this men if I ask a nooby question in the forum peeps are just going to shout "ITS IN THE BOOK!"

I hadn't really considered that... but I think you hit the nail on the head there

Finally, we can use the RTFM abbreviation in some cases

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

Stewdio Published 10/21/2004 14:02 Updated 10/21/2004 14:03 Community Support Member Joined 05/07/2003 Comments 1560

Or in my case, Read the Signature! (*)

Great work people, happy XOOPSing all!

(*)Signatures may not be visible in all areas depending on system settings

I love disclaimers :-p

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

outch Published 10/21/2004 15:35 Just popping in Joined 03/31/2004 Comments 4

Good idea...

Did you want french community participate to translate it in our language, and i detach some ressource for this work ?

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

carnuke Published 10/21/2004 16:11 Home away from home Joined 11/05/2003 Comments 1955

Firstly: thanks to all for your positive feedback I only wish we could have released this months ago.

Second: There is a fault in this Document. The Credit should really be " By the XOOPS Documentation Team, This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Attribution, non-commercial and share-alike"

I could not sustain further delay to recut this detail, so it was released with Horacio's name and with a copyright mark.

This will be corrected Real soon. Should I have delayed and got this right? My judgment is that the XOOPS community has waited toooo long already for this, so I went ahead and made the release.

How did this happen? well Horacio wrote the first part of the document, the introduction and I guess his name ended up heading up the whole thing... Mmmm, the challenges or multi-authoring.

So, my appologies for this error, it will be corrected.

Anyway just to confirm to all: please be free to take this document, copy, translate and redistribute according to the CC license. BUT credit the "Xoops Documentation team" NOT Horacio Salazar.

I really hope this won't turn political, it is a typographical mistake that I ignored so that the users could get the real meat of the document.

RTFM ?? oh yes, and ther'e more coming especially when SmartFAQ get's online

Richard

(On behalf of the Documentation team. thanks guys for aqll your hard work)

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

ejuden01 Published 10/21/2004 16:18 Not too shy to talk Joined 04/05/2004 Comments 121

That is awesome! Keep up the good work guys!

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

menochi Published 10/21/2004 21:41 Friend of XOOPS Joined 12/28/2003 Comments 259

Thank`s to the XOOPS Documentation team.

It is a very good work. We will need it in our xoops-workshops in latinamerica. So somebody in our group will translate the document in the next 14+ days to the spanish language.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

phppp Published 10/22/2004 0:17 XOOPS Contributor Joined 01/25/2004 Comments 2857

Thx Documentation Team, excellent work!

Is the xDocMan module by Robekras available for us, I mean the XOOPS Official Local Support Sites?
Our Support Team is starting the translation and wish we could use hte xDocMan.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

carnuke Published 10/22/2004 7:28 Home away from home Joined 11/05/2003 Comments 1955

Re xDocMan module. This is not yet available for release. There are some manual processes that are required to prepare the conversion process. eg; convert all material to XML.

What we are still looking for is a suitable xml editor as a front end for this process. One that is as easy as possible for writers to use.

I will ask robekras to comment on this more fully as I believe this module has very useful applications in the community.

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

amayer Published 10/22/2004 7:29 Friend of XOOPS Joined 10/18/2003 Comments 82

Quote:

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Attribution, non-commercial and share-alike"

For those that want further details, this is the link for full info on the license:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Andy

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

metropolis Published 10/22/2004 9:27 Not too shy to talk Joined 07/15/2004 Comments 159

I really appreciate your efforts and you did a good job here.

However - what I am constantly missing is an up-to-date overview about the most essential 3rd party modules. Especially what all these portal systems such as PHPNuke or XOOPS lack is the presence of a method of how to distriubute CONTENT. A lot of these projects call themselves a "content mangement system" but do not provide any content management mechanisms at all (at XOOPS is unfortunately no exception).

I just wish somebody would write a manual for that in the quality that you provide with your manual.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

kaotik Published 10/22/2004 12:41 Just can't stay away Joined 02/19/2004 Comments 861

Another thing that is also needed is a more detailed guide on the correct usage of XOOPS classes. At the moment there is some commented text in them, and there is also some good info in dev.xoops wiki but it's only for a select group and the commented text really isn't enough to allow a new developer to understand the mecanics of the class.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

carnuke Published 10/22/2004 17:37 Home away from home Joined 11/05/2003 Comments 1955

Quote:

Especially what all these portal systems such as PHPNuke or XOOPS lack is the presence of a method of how to distriubute CONTENT.

Fair comment, Unfortunately XOOPS still does not have an official article content module (I dont think sections really counts any more, even though it's part of the distribution)

So which third party module would we document? In fact there is a very good guide by hsalazar for Tiny Content module.

Quote:

Another thing that is also needed is a more detailed guide on the correct usage of XOOPS classes.

When SmartFAQ comes online we will all see a huge increase on user driven questions like this covered in much more depth.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

Ronaldus Published 10/23/2004 8:33 Friend of XOOPS Joined 05/08/2004 Comments 389

A very comprehensive work you published there!
Congrats to the documentation team!!

It answered a lot of questions, from a newbie like me.
There are a few questions left however, but this saves me a lot of posts, and the XOOPS fellas a lot of replying!

Greetings, Ronaldus

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

usera Published 10/23/2004 10:20 Just popping in Joined 08/28/2004 Comments 29

I am very appreciative that a pdf version is made. I for one do not like reading online/computer documents. I need to print it out because I learn better, easier on the eyes, easier to make notes, etc.

Thanks alot to the documentation team for committing to making different formats. It means alot.

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

englm Published 09/23/2005 9:07 Just popping in Joined 09/23/2005 Comments 1

Can someone tell me where i can download the files? The links seem not to work.

Thanks for your help

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

LazyBadger Published 09/23/2005 10:00 Home away from home Joined 06/07/2004 Comments 1187

Well, I have zip'ped HTML

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

Krigae Published 10/07/2005 10:50 Just popping in Joined 10/07/2005 Comments 1

Can anyone help as the links dont seem to be working

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

carnuke Published 10/07/2005 11:56 Updated 10/07/2005 11:57 Home away from home Joined 11/05/2003 Comments 1955

go to Houseofstrauss.co.uk, then navigate to Software reviews>tutorials There you will see all the current documents for download. This is a temporary solution untill we install the new documentation library for users.

user

Re: Xoops Operation Guide Release.

txcelt Published 10/07/2005 15:52 Just popping in Joined 07/24/2003 Comments 11

Carnuke -

I've just downloaded most of the documents you referenced. One thing I'm particularly looking for is a guide to themes - how to create, what are the various compenents/elements, using graphicsin, etc. Are these topics covered in any of the documents available?

Thanks!
Brent

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