24 Aug
2015
24 Aug
'15
9:05 a.m.
On 24 Aug 2015 at 00:53:15, Tim Dudgeon
(tdudgeon@informaticsmatters.com(mailto:tdudgeon@informaticsmatters.com)) wrote:
Well, I suppose the scenario is like this.
Your company has 2 users, Jon and Sam.
Jon has just left the company and Sam is picking up all his work.
There needs to be a simple way to transfer Jon's "rights" to all
documents and apps to Sam.
Its probably correct to leave Jon as a user, but just inactivate the
account (e.g. the fact the Jon created and edited some docs is important
information and should not be lost).
But there needs to be a simple way to enable Sam to do anything that Jon
used to be able to do on all of those docs. e.g. not have to make a
manual change on every document.
Maybe there's already a way to do this.
Maybe the issue comes from the fact that we don’t have any notion of owner for a doc
(which seems ok for a wiki); we just have the notion of Creator (ie the first person who
initiated the doc).
The issue is that the creator of a doc has some special permissions for that doc and that
cannot be transferred. However extra permissions can be given to Sam.
Thus, the solution I can think of is to have an Admin review the permissions Jon had on
the wiki and verify that Sam has the same permissions and if some are missing, review them
and if ok give them to Sam or move the documents to other locations where Sam would get
the permissions.
Copying permissions from one user to another is a feature that could even be implemented
if XWiki users find that interesting, possibly with a UI showing the new permissions that
would be given to Sam before the copy happens (to make the review possible).
@Hamster: what is your use case? Would that solve it?
Thanks
-Vincent
Tim
On 23/08/2015 18:40, vincent(a)massol.net wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On 23 Aug 2015 at 22:53:56, Tim Dudgeon
(tdudgeon@informaticsmatters.com(mailto:tdudgeon@informaticsmatters.com)) wrote:
>
>> I'd certainly give that a +1. Seems like pretty necessary functionality.
>> Also, to be able to transfer ownership of all items belonging to a user
>> (useful when someone leaves your organisation and you need to transfer
>> their "stuff" to someone else).
>
> Note that you can remove a user without having to transfer any ownership and you
don’t need to be the creator of a page to be allowed to modify it or have permissions on
it.
>
> Also, even if someone leaves a company they’re still the creator of the pages they
created (in reality, this can never be removed, they’ll always be the creator of that
page, even if you try to hide it ;)).
>
> Personally I don’t see this feature as a necessary one. I’m curious: why do you
think it’s necessary? :)
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>> Tim
>>
>> On 23/08/2015 13:39, vincent(a)massol.net wrote:
>>> Hi Hamster,
>>>
>>> On 22 Aug 2015 at 09:17:37, Hamster
(teunham@hotmail.com(mailto:teunham@hotmail.com)) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just wondering...3 1/2 years ago it was not possible to change the owner
of a
>>>> page in the UI.
>>>>
>>>> Is this now possible (with XWiki 7.x) within the UI or do I still need
to
>>>> use the script?
>>>
>>> It’s still not possible to do it with the UI (you have to use a script). The
reason it hasn’t changed is that nobody has asked for it :)
>>>
>>> If you think such a UI feature is needed please create a jira issue for it,
with some description as to where you’d see it located in the UI and how it would work.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
>>>
>>> [snip]