tiki wiki how to permanently hide a tracker plugin from a user once saved

Question

I'm trying to implement a read confirmation in a number of wiki pages. I'm trying to use trackers.

General Description:

Employees in our company are assigned to read a number of official procedures. I'm trying to implement a process where:

• Each employee is assigned procedures he needs to read according to his department (Group).
• Each procedure is a wiki page
• At the end of each procedure there will be a confirmation form in the following format.
  • Users that don't need to read this procedure won't see this form.
  • Users that confirmed reading the document will see a message like:

    You've confirmed reading this procedure.

• Administrators will be able to monitor who read what procedure.

Questions:

1. How do I hide the tracker plugin from users who don't belong to the department (Group)
2. How do I display a different message once the user confirmed the read

Thanks

Answer 1

There are different way to achieve this and it require a bit of thinking (trade-off from a method to another), but this is what I’ll do.

Have 2 groups (before approving - after approving) Display the procedures using a plugin listExecute and having at the end the approving checkbox to have some actions (notification, group changes, etc).

Enclosing everything in a tracker and turn it into a multipage forms can also be the way.

Your case remind me other use case I worked on including Official Procedures reading including quick test (to check if the procedures were understood) and approving mechanism. Look at https://doc.tiki.org/PluginExercise ;)

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Answer 2

Another, possibly simpler (? ;) way to do that would be to use just plugins group and list, maybe like this:

{GROUP(groups="This Department")}
  {LIST()}
    {filter type="trackeritem"}
    {filter field="tracker_id" content="42"}
    {filter field="tracker_field_procedurePage" content="{{page}}"}
    {filter field="tracker_field_userLogin" content="{{user}}"}
    {OUTPUT()}~tc~Item found, so already done~/tc~You already did this bit{OUTPUT}
    {ALTERNATE()}~tc~Nothing found, show the form~/tc~{tracker trackerId=42 etc...}{ALTERNATE}
  {LIST}
{ELSE}
  You don't need to fill in the form
{GROUP}

This is totally untested i'm afraid, and i'm not 100% sure you can use a plugin in the ALTERNATE section, but give it a go? If it doesn't work, try using {display format="wiki plugin" etc...} which might do the trick - good luck!