On Nov 20, 10:54 am, Philip Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > > > > On Nov 19, 2009, at 13:02 , mikelietz wrote: > > >>> 2) Log message thrown up for habari content silo being unable to > >>> create needed folders - easily solved but would be good if steps > >>> needed to fix the problem could be listed. I needed to change the > >>> permissions but do I need to re-install the plugin? Apparently yes, > >>> and it was easy, but actionable points in response to a probably > >>> frequent error would be useful. > > >> You mean you had to deactivate and reactivate it? Yes, that should > >> probably be handled a little better. > > > I feel like the silo could use a lot of love and documentation. I've > > been using Habari for about three years now, and have never gotten the > > silo working consistently. I had it working for a brief time, but some > > update along the way broke it. That's happened several times - I > > thought I had it working, but then it stopped. Eventually I gave up > > and used the Flickr silo, which is now also not working. Clearly > > telling me what directory to create, and what permissions need to be > > on it, would be a big improvement. > > Is there an official place for plugin documentation? There is help(), > and an <url> inside the XML file that points to hb.o or a different > external location (like, an authors blog post about said plugin). >
There's no official place for individual plugin documentation. what show's up in help, or the readme file if the author includes it, is all there is right now. > And FWIW, the Habari silo appears to be working now or at least I > installed it, added a photo and linked it within a post via slimbox2. Unfortunately, how well the Habari silo works seems to differ from server to server. For some people, it works out of the box and they never have a problem with it. For others, much fiddling around with permissions seems to be necessary. Rick > However, another form of missing documentation is how it handles > thumbnails but they apparently follow the following format: > > - image: user/files/foo.jpg > - thumbnail: user/files/.deriv/foo.jpg.thumbnail.jpg > > With a potential difference being custom directories living within > user/files/. > > Regards, > Philip -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
