Thanks for your feedback! Always nice to get some fresh eyes looking at things. After being at it awhile, I can't see it from a new users perspective very well any more. Feel free to offer suggestions for making the software more intuitive to use.
As for the docs, you are absolutely right. Despite some help, they are really behind in some areas. And there is no way to know which are up to date and which are not. And it is not likely to get better soon. When I first started BoltWire--I had a lot of time to work with it. Then I got a new job that is quite time intensive--and it's a scramble to keep up. The big 4.xx upgrade was only recently completed and I've not had time to even begin catching the docs up. I've been trying just to fix them as people ask questions. And not always doing that. Sometimes the mail forum is a better place for info. It is searchable. BTW--you will discover the same problem all through the extensions. I'm open for suggestions on how to manage this better. As for technical questions (like registration), feel free to ask here. Hint: site.auth.view can control access to action.register. The location of your register link is based on your skin, but probably can be found in code.settings. You can get email messages of new registrations by adding a mail command to the action.register form. Most stuff is really easy to do, but you gotta have the docs, or know the software. Hopefully we can improve in this area, as BoltWire is really stabilizing on the code side. Mostly just debugging now (with one significant change possible later in the year) As far as helping--thanks a lot. If you create an account, just email me your id and I'll give you edit permissions, then you can update anything you want on the BoltWire site, when you find discrepancies. My hope was that as people asked questions here, I'd put out an answer, and then the receiver would update the docs. But that doesn't always happen. :) Hope you end up really liking BoltWire despite the limited docs. We could use some more active developers! Cheers, Dan On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:06 AM, TheOldFellow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > First up, thanks for some nice software - it suits what I want to do well. > > But the docs are driving me mad. Can't tell if a page refers top Boltwire > 3 or Botlwire 4, they desperately need version numbers and dates so you > have a chance to relate them to releases. > > For instance, I wanted to add Google Analyics. OK, there's a page for > that in the docs, but you can't tell that somewhere in 4.06 to 4.10 you > changed the syntax for <embed xx> to [(embed xx)]. It only took me an hour > to discover that! > > I'm now trying to discover how to secure my test site, and to restrict > registration, get notified about registration, etc., etc.. I can't find > that kind of documentation. > > Now, no-one should ever complain about free software without volunteering > to help fix it. So when I find out how to do stuff, what kind of feedback > do you want? > > TOF. > > www.ctik.org.uk > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BoltWire" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
