Normally, when displaying tracker information, with the TRACKERLIST plugin, Tiki displays the information as a table. For example, when Building Forms, you displayed the tracker data in table.

With Pretty Trackers (introduced in Tiki 4), Tiki can use a predefined Wiki page or Smarty template (TPL) file to display the tracker data. This gives you complete flexibility in determining how to present the data.

For example, instead of displaying the tracker as a table:

You can display each tracker item on a formatted wiki page:

Building a Pretty Tracker requires:

• Creating a Tracker
  (this is no different then creating any other tracker)
• Building a Template
• Displaying the Pretty Tracker

Let's update the tracker you've built to use a Pretty Tracker for display...

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