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4/7/2006 5:52 PM
 

I've rarely seen DNN apps that don't allow one to hit the 'back' button on the browser.  I've never seen a Wiki that didn't allow this either--I hope and pray that you guys will get a chance to chage the way you're accessing the server, so the back button doesn't end up in breaking the web page.  IMO, this is a pretty serious flaw.

I definitely like the potential of this though...and I'm sure you folks have other things than to listen to an old goat like me give requests.

 
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4/12/2006 3:52 PM
 
We'll put this on the list of items to look into/fix.

Chris Hammond
Former DNN Corp Employee, MVP, Core Team Member, Trustee
Christoc.com Software Solutions DotNetNuke Module Development, Upgrades and consulting.
dnnCHAT.com a chat room for DotNetNuke discussions
 
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4/13/2006 4:45 AM
 
DNN security expert Cathal pointed out yesterday in another forum, that this has been deactivated in general for DotNetNuke, as it covers a security risk: think of an admin, that logs out and browser back allows a subsequent user to gain access to admin pages visited before.

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Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

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4/15/2006 7:48 PM
 

While I agree that this is potentially a security risk, it should at least be something that an administrator/superuser should be allowed to make on his/her own, via a checkbox or something.

In my opinion, the loss of user-friendliness of being able to hit the back button, and the risk of an admin being stupid and not logging out when he leaves his desk, don't seem to 'weigh' the same 'tall.  One of the beauties of previous versions of DNN was that the back button worked.  I never read of any 'horror stories' of DNN sites being overrun by people who waited for an admin to leave their desk and then wreaked havoc on a DNN site.

I understand you are repeating what someone on the core team stated...but again, the *right* answer is to put this decision in the hands of the administrator and/or superuser.

 
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4/15/2006 11:42 PM
 

I have a couple of other suggested enhancements.  BTW, copying the default.aspx to desktopdefault.aspx did the trick.  Works great!

1. Allow a user to link to another wiki page on another wiki.  Ie. Say one wiki for 'Sales Team' has a link to 'DotNetNuke' wiki page.  The page, say, describes DotNetNuke and includes a link to this site.  It would be nice if there were a way to be able to have ONE 'DotNetNuke' link to a wiki page on, say, the 'IT Team Wiki', and have it point to the Wiki page on the 'Sales Team' wiki, instead of having to copy and paste the whole page and any sub-pages.

2. The back button issue really messes with navigation.  There really needs to be something in the 'administrator settings' or wiki settings that allows the back button to work.  Using the 'security excuse' just doesn't make it...especially since any administrator should be logging out.  IMO, that's just an excuse to not have to implement the extra work it would require to make the back button work. 'Yeah, let's just say it's a security issue!  That's the ticket!'.    Seriously, if someone on the core team things it's such a security issue as opposed to a 'more work for us to do issue', they could poll users.  I guarantee 99% of DNN users would want the back button to work.  If there are people that have 'security issues' with it, then either the back button should *never* work, or much smarter, it should be a checkbox, and made the choice of users.  For a Wiki navigation it's a show-stopper, IMO.

3. Add an in-line editor, and AJAX, instead of using the FCK editor (or any other editor).  Just adding this feature and the backbutton working, would turn this into a world class Wiki, IMO.  It ain't that far from it now.

4. Add the ability to have plug-ins.  I know there's a menu item for it, but it doesn't do anything that I can see, and there's no documentation I can see for it either.  I bet a lot of people (definitely at least me), would start adding plug-ins.  Even better, why not inspect one or two of the most popular wikis, and make plug-ins so they're compatible with these popular wiki plugins--that way, you'd instantly have a wealth of plugins available.

5. (Yeah, it's gettin to be a long list...I was thinkin' while I was creating all these wikis for our company site. ).  Makle it an option to have the menu at the bottom of the page and/or at the top or sides of the page.  It's sort of a pain when a page is long to have to page down a couple of times to access the menu.  It would be even cooler to make the menu so it 'slides' on the side, like a pop-out menu I've written at one time and seen in many places.

Okay, that's it for ideas.  Good job Chris and company.  This wiki could really turn out to be a killer ap for DNN.  Okay, one more idea.  Imagine if one could *replace* the default editor, with the Wiki, using an inline/AJAX editor.  So *any* content would be 'wiki'able.  Think about it. You already have version/content management in place, and you could create a checkbox to turn on/off wiki capabilities.  Now that would be really cool.  All of a sudden, articles and any other modules could have wiki capabilities.  And heck, if you added email notifications, well, fahgedaboudit.  You'd be considered gods. :)

 
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