4.x Feature Planning

[alexbevi]

This is meant to serve as a potential roadmap for the next major release. Feel free to drop ideas as comments, or create feature requests as per usual :)

• [ ] Versioned Article Ratings (#209)
• [ ] Email Notifications Toggle (per category / article) (#226)
• [ ] Ensure Attachment Removal adheres to user permissions (#199)
• [ ] Publicly viewable Knowledgebase for Public Projects (#187, #186)
• [ ] Add article to issue via an autocomplete dialog (#165)
• [ ] Better landing page layout (ideas welcome, #148)
• [ ] Single Rating per User (#114)
• [ ] Revisit Granular content access (whitelist was a good POC, but is not the most ideal solution, #143)

[alesak]

We are bit missing previous functionality of common Knowledgebase and same time we are very happy with per project one. However current model makes it difficult to find an KB article in so many projects we have. I would suggest option to display some global Knowledgebase page with filtering per project and usual category and tags. Also adding an option to exclude an article from this global listing will be excellent.

[EgbertW]

I agree. We have many different subprojects and one of the main reasons for using knowledgebase over wikis would be to share KB articles over the entire project tree, and possibly even cross-project.

It would be great if it was possible to share knowledgebase categories with subproject, the entire tree or all projects and to have the possibility to share them with subprojects, too.

[OLSA]

Hello to all, some of this I finished in project (2012) with KB v2 but not sure is it 100% ok (all work's but need to do much better). "Add article to issue via an autocomplete dialog" have done with small popup from issue form to KB article (ajax, dropdown article list and pass value to parent), also done linking from KB article with contact plugin (ajax complete input field in KB form), and extend permissions with some new permissions (lock, hide from public etc.). With new permissions I solved that some part of KB article are "selectable" visible. Also created accordion menu tree (need to do that because of >190 categories). Here are some pictures where you can see part of that redesigned KB v2. link: http://s100.photobucket.com/user/OLSA1/library/

Thanks to Alex!

[alexbevi]

@OLSA I'd love to see your fork of the project so we can look into integrating some of these features. The screenshots look really nice, but source code is even nicer :)

[fengyedou]

I am really suggest to add article template feature in the 4.x version, I described it in the https://github.com/alexbevi/redmine_knowledgebase/issues/262

[jankap]

I agree with @alesak and @MadEgg that it would be awesome to have one global KB with the ability to link to from different projects. So we can keep one KB clean and up to date and may use e.g. the wiki or another KB for project dependend problems/workarounds/etc.

[zoeeer]

Allow me to list my most expected features for knowledge base:

• [ ] Draft saving and publishing
• [ ] Category ordering manually
• [ ] Allow expand category tree (on the sidebar of landing page) to show article titles (#365)

2 and 3 are both about more functionalities in category management. I find it might be helpful if we turn the categories into something like TOC.

Also, for the "Better landing page layout" part, I will recommend to show TOC in the main part, and move the "latest" to alongside with "most views" and "highest rating" part. But at least having TOC in the sidebar would be a great start.