16 Mar
2017
16 Mar
'17
9:17 a.m.
On 15 Mar 2017, at 21:40, Patrick M. Hausen
<pmh(a)hausen.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm still trying to move a private Wiki from Confluence to Xwiki, now 9.1.2.
I just cannot find my way to the access rights system.
What I need:
A page tree like this:
A
A.1
A.1.1
A.1.2
A.2
A.2.1
B
B.1
B.1.1
B.1.2
B.2
B.2.1
C
C.1
...
And the following mechanics:
No anonymous access, only logged in users.
Users belong in group A, B or C - possibly more than one of them.
Users of Group A should see the top page A and subpages in the navigation panel.
Users of Group B should see the top page B ...
Users of more than one group should see all corresponding pages.
Beneath the top pages all users should have full create/edit/comment/delete rights.
Simply speaking: I'm trying to achieve what can easily be done with Confluence
spaces,
now that Xwiki removed them for some reason.
They’re still there, see
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/
Users working on project X should see only pages (and
navigation tree) of project X,
while the board of directors should be able to see and work on all projects.
That’s possible.
Subwikis won't do because of the "multiple
group memberships/board of directors"
requirement, if I read that part of the documentation correctly.
I don’t understand what you mean by "multiple group memberships/board of directors”
and why it’s an issue with multi-wiki. You can have as many groups you want on the main
wiki for example and then set permissions on each sub-wiki. You don’t need to create local
users if that’s your worry.
See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/WikiVsNestedPages (which is linked
from http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ContentOrganization/) if you need
to know the detailed differences between nested pages and multi-wikis.
So I need nested pages.
Any hints on how to configure this would be greatly appreciated!
Yes, there’s nothing to configure, you just click the + button to add a page under the
current one (or specify any location in the Add page dialog that opens).
Second, I want all applications, blog, sandbox, ...
gone from what users see.
You still want these apps in the wiki but only visible to some users or completely gone
and removed?
When I
try to delete these pages I get the warning that I should instead remove the extension …
Yes that’s good. What’s the problem you faced? We recently introduced a protection to
avoid users deleting application pages by mistake, see
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/9.1/
Note that we currently have a limitation that we need to fix ASAP:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8608
Thus in the meantime you can disregard the warning and delete the pages of those apps you
don’t need instead of uninstalling them.
Users should see a hierarchical navigation panel on
the left and the page on the right
and rest of the area in the browser. Simple and clean. Nothing (!) else.
Possible?
Sure.
Thanks
-Vincent
Many many thanks in advance! I don't want to
complain about free software and of course
I could "just buy Confluence" instead. Unfortunately a regular license is way
out of budget
for our small organisation and we have outgrown the 10 users you get for the "almost
free"
starter license from Atlassian. When I first found Xwiki I was so excited it would
support
spaces, only to learn that they were removed again ...
Thanks in advance!
Patrick