I  believe the top most parent pages can be used to create separate spaces with different access-rights. For example you can create a parent space 'Docs', and make it public, and another space 'Private-Docs' (at the same level as 'Docs') change its access rights and use it as a private space among your group.

- sushil
 

No, access rights are not propagated from parents to children.

 

Personally, I use parent pages as a navigation aid: I changed the
header template to show links to  .. > great-grandparent > grandparent
> parent > current page    -  a bit like breadcrumbs. This is useful
in the absence of backlinks. I'm sure there are other uses too.

Regards,
Robin.

On 11/08/06, Jeff Ousley <jousley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to figure out the purpose of "parent" pages in XWiki. What
> can they be used for? If I set access rights on a page, do they
> trickle down to the child pages?
>
> Thanks!
> -jeff
>
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