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DESCRIPTION
ProjectForum is a commercially supported, high quality wiki collaboration server for small and medium workgroups. It runs securely on an organization's own network, keeping important information safely in-house and protected. Supporting multiple workgroups from a single server, it features full version control, secure authentication options, document management, full branding support and much more.

Unlike other wiki software, ProjectForum is affordable, easy to set up, easy to learn, and easy to use, for any workgroup. ProjectForum can be downloaded and set up on an internal network in minutes by anyone, without the dependencies, complex installation and maintenance headaches inherent in most wiki software.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 6.5b1:

Content Management Additions:

  • new [page:] link type, which allows you to link to pages but have the link display a different name, e.g. [page:"Original Page" Other Name]
  • when including pages from another forum into a page, attached images on the other page will appear correctly
  • allow a main group page to include a page from a project within the group, provided the project is set to 'use same passwords as main group'
  • virtual host based webviews can now optionally specify a path, so you can have several different web views sharing the same hostname, e.g. articles.foo.com/measurement and articles.foo.com/processes
User Interface Improvements:
  • popup menus on attachment icons are now activated by a right click, rather than automatically coming up on mouseover
  • new table widget, replacing the existing one used on the attachments, versions, user activity and pages administration screens; new widget allows fast paging and search
  • reworked sitewide user accounts, web views and custom links administration pages to use the new table widget
  • many additional layout and cosmetic changes in all administration screens
New Administrator Features:
  • new command line option -dbutil added to allow various inspection and manipulation tasks to be performed on the underlying database files; see the database HOWTO for more information
  • allow changing the name on the 'From' line that is used to send out notification emails
Additional Changes:
  • various changes to improve web standards compliance; most significantly, all pages now have an explicit DOCTYPE header, which may have an impact on any user-developed custom themes
  • upgrade internal editor library to use TinyMCE 3.2.7
  • upgrade to Prototype 1.6.1, new accordion widget used for editor page help several refactorings, cleanup and simplification of HTML files, Javascript and CSS; minor changes to HTML generated for page content
Bug Fixes:
  • fix style sheet so that editor window is shown full width in Firefox
  • fix editor glitch with safari when two attachments are immediately next to each other on the same line
  • images uploaded to a page, when displayed in a web view, were being logged in the activity log (if enabled) as downloads when the web view page was viewed; they no longer are logged
  • additional quoting of ampersands in page names in various locations in generated HTML
  • leading zeros on page numbers in URL's could be misinterpreted as octal
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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Developer:CourseForum Technologies
Downloads:11,992
  - Version d/l:183
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License:Demo
Date:30 Nov 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$79.00
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Sep 25 2006
*****

TOMEM  I've been playing with Wikipedia, Wikia, VoodoPad, and several free wiki services for months. Excepting VoodooPad, they all seemed klunky, counterintuitive, and hacker-oriented. Now along comes Project Forum (with SSL) or Course Forum (w/o SSL) and it's an epiphany. It's a wiki you download and have up and running in literally 5 min. And then you are immediately busy with the web-only interface figuring out how to organize it to your purposes, with zero learnng curve in terms of getting it to do the basic wiki thing of creating linked pages that anyone can edit.

It's a very different self-contained proprietary approach to wikis that won't appeal to free/open software hounds who relish hacking the thing into existence. It WILL appeal to folks who just want to get on with finding out what a wiki can do for collaborative efforts. And for what it does, the price is reasonable, particularly when SSL is omitted in the eduacational version.

Of course the real epiphany is a web page that can be edited in place by the viewer using a browser. Why no one thought that was important for the first 15 years of the web, I cannot imagine. Having brought 5 or 6 project groups into existence in one day and one weekend of fiddling around, I can't imagine having much interest in any other web site creation approach in the future. No more color coded html! No more SFTP tools or reloads. Hit save changes, and the page appears. This changes everything in a way comparable to the first text editors!

A few more detailed impressions:

* zero user interface application; everything is done via a browser.

* you may need some help proxying the server so that it works with your existing port 80 web server. Each setup differs enough that general instructions are not quite general.

* site changes are reported with page names (or full contents if security not an issue) in automatic RSS feeds. Monitor activity with an RSS news reader. How cool is that!?

* image and file attachment uploads of course!

* tagging text as a link automatically creates a page of the same name

* supports wikis within wikis that are within the site, each administered separately.

* excellent online help, with hint buttons in critical places, downloadable userguide, and FAQ in depth.

* Online forum and email support are very responsive.

Downsides:

* minor problems with different browsers; alignment or graphics.  
(Version 5.1.2)

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