Hi, On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:36 AM, Henning Sprang wrote:

Hi, We decided to write an online book by using xWiki as the authoring system. While we want to make it freely available, we'd like to restrict pdf and other printable output apart from plain html. (we might want to sell pdf outputs later, with watermarks, but that would be a different story - and we will probably go via Latex then).

But current permissions seem only to make a distinction between view(including html, pdf, rtf, xml, ...) and edit.

How would we go to add such a "print" right, and even differentiate pdf and .xar and other there?

One easy solution I can think of would be to prevent access to them by configuring your web server to deny some actions (*/export/.....). Apart from this you would have to modify some java code (the Action classes code). Thanks -Vincent http://xwiki.com http://xwiki.org http://massol.net

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

One easy solution I can think of would be to prevent access to them by configuring your web server to deny some actions (*/export/.....).

O.K. we'll do that if we need it fast and the other way is taking too long.

Apart from this you would have to modify some java code (the Action classes code).

That's probably what we're going to do then. I have to look at the code sooner or later anyway for the other export stuff. Thanks, Henning

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Henning Sprang <[email protected]>wrote:

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote:

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Or you could add some code in the vm topmenu template to hide those actions from non-admin users.

But that would be hiding the links, while somebody who knows xWiki could still call them, right?

Absolutely. Guillaume

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Henning Sprang wrote:

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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One easy solution I can think of would be to prevent access to them by configuring your web server to deny some actions (*/export/.....).

O.K. we'll do that if we need it fast and the other way is taking too long.

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Apart from this you would have to modify some java code (the Action classes code).

That's probably what we're going to do then. I have to look at the code sooner or later anyway for the other export stuff.

The rights system is not modular yet, so you will have to change one java class. Look at xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/user/impl/xwiki/XWikiRightServiceImpl.java, around line 106, there should be a line like: actionMap.put("pdf", "view"); and around line 115: actionMap.put("export", "view"); A quick solution is to replace "view" with "admin". A better solution is to replace "view" with "export", but then you will have to also change other java code and some skin files. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

On Feb 20, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Henning Sprang wrote:

Hi

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:

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xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/user/impl/xwiki/ XWikiRightServiceImpl.java, around line 106, there should be a line like: actionMap.put("pdf", "view"); and around line 115: actionMap.put("export", "view");

Thanks a lot for the detailed information! I'll be looking at it the next few days - I will finally have to start setting up a development environment for xWiki coding.

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A quick solution is to replace "view" with "admin".

For start that would suffice.

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A better solution is to replace "view" with "export", but then you will have to also change other java code and some skin files.

No problem for the long term. I'll have to change stuff in the skins anyway. I'm thinking of a better commenting system - for example like it is in the djangobook project: http://djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter01/

This is something Lucien started to work on, see http://dev​.xwiki.org​/xwiki/bin​/view/Desi​gn/Annotat​ ionFeature I don't know what's the status but if you want to help you're welcome! Does someone know where the sources are for this? Thanks -Vincent http://xwiki.com http://xwiki.org http://massol.net