[xwiki-users] XEM: Allowing non-admin users to create new wikis
We're setting up a private XWiki wiki farm for our department. Everything is working perfectly except for the fact that non-admin users cannot create new wikis. We'd prefer to allow registered users to create wikis on their own, without involving the admin. Currently, when a non-admin user attempts to create a new wiki, they receive the following error: Wiki "testwiki9" creation failed: Error number 9001 in 5: Exception in plugin xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.Wiki Manager Plugin?<https://sliswiki.sjsu.edu/bin/edit/com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager/WikiManagerPlugin?parent=WikiManager.CreateNewWiki>: You dont have right to create wiki Is there any way to customize XWiki to grant non-admin users the right to create new wikis. In the case of a private wiki farm, where our user base is known, it would seem safe to do this. Thanks in advance for any feedback. -- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
I see the following JIRA regarding this issue: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/WIKITHREEDOTO-14 But I'm not seeing any details regarding the resolution. Was a configuration option added to disable java rights checking for the current user? I scanned through xwiki.cfg, but I'm not seeing anything related... Many thanks... On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stanley Laufer <[email protected]>wrote:
We're setting up a private XWiki wiki farm for our department.
Everything is working perfectly except for the fact that non-admin users cannot create new wikis. We'd prefer to allow registered users to create wikis on their own, without involving the admin.
Currently, when a non-admin user attempts to create a new wiki, they receive the following error:
Wiki "testwiki9" creation failed: Error number 9001 in 5: Exception in plugin xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.Wiki Manager Plugin?<https://sliswiki.sjsu.edu/bin/edit/com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager/WikiManagerPlugin?parent=WikiManager.CreateNewWiki>: You dont have right to create wiki
Is there any way to customize XWiki to grant non-admin users the right to create new wikis.
In the case of a private wiki farm, where our user base is known, it would seem safe to do this.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
Nevermind. I see the comments on the JIRA. I'm not 100% how to implement, but will investigate. If anyone has developed documentation on how to do this, would you be willing forward? Thanks... On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Stanley Laufer <[email protected]>wrote:
I see the following JIRA regarding this issue:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/WIKITHREEDOTO-14
But I'm not seeing any details regarding the resolution. Was a configuration option added to disable java rights checking for the current user? I scanned through xwiki.cfg, but I'm not seeing anything related...
Many thanks...
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stanley Laufer <[email protected]>wrote:
We're setting up a private XWiki wiki farm for our department.
Everything is working perfectly except for the fact that non-admin users cannot create new wikis. We'd prefer to allow registered users to create wikis on their own, without involving the admin.
Currently, when a non-admin user attempts to create a new wiki, they receive the following error:
Wiki "testwiki9" creation failed: Error number 9001 in 5: Exception in plugin xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.Wiki Manager Plugin?<https://sliswiki.sjsu.edu/bin/edit/com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager/WikiManagerPlugin?parent=WikiManager.CreateNewWiki>: You dont have right to create wiki
Is there any way to customize XWiki to grant non-admin users the right to create new wikis.
In the case of a private wiki farm, where our user base is known, it would seem safe to do this.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
Hi Stanley, There would be 3 ways of addressing this limitation: 1) If you use subwikis in an intranet-like environment or, more generally, use only global users, and you wish to allow them to create subwikis where they can perform their work, then I would recomment that you try the recently released Workspace Application [1]. The only constraint for this is that you use XWiki 3.2 or greater. 2) A "quicker" solution is the one specified in the comment of a XEM Jira issue [2]. The problem with that, is that it always shows XWiki.Admin as the creator of the subwiki and you have to write some custom UI. 3) A final, third solution, is the one specified in the comments of the Wiki3.0 Jira issue [3] that you've previously referenced. It involves creating a new component, that uses the wikiManager plugin internally, but avoids the java permission checks that limit wiki creation only to admins. However, this has already been done for the Workspace Component [4] that is part of the Workspace Application suggested at 1). Thanks, Eduard P.S.: If you are interested in 1), there currently is a live demo instance [5] where you can try it out. ----------------- References: [1] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Workspace+Application [2] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XEM-113?focusedCommentId=25862&page=com.atlassi... [3] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/WIKITHREEDOTO-14 [4] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Workspace+Component [5] http://wiki30-demo.xwiki.com On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Stanley Laufer <[email protected]>wrote:
Nevermind. I see the comments on the JIRA. I'm not 100% how to implement, but will investigate.
If anyone has developed documentation on how to do this, would you be willing forward?
Thanks...
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Stanley Laufer <[email protected]
wrote:
I see the following JIRA regarding this issue:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/WIKITHREEDOTO-14
But I'm not seeing any details regarding the resolution. Was a configuration option added to disable java rights checking for the current user? I scanned through xwiki.cfg, but I'm not seeing anything related...
Many thanks...
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stanley Laufer < [email protected]>wrote:
We're setting up a private XWiki wiki farm for our department.
Everything is working perfectly except for the fact that non-admin users cannot create new wikis. We'd prefer to allow registered users to create wikis on their own, without involving the admin.
Currently, when a non-admin user attempts to create a new wiki, they receive the following error:
Wiki "testwiki9" creation failed: Error number 9001 in 5: Exception in plugin xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.Wiki Manager Plugin?< https://sliswiki.sjsu.edu/bin/edit/com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager/WikiMana... : You dont have right to create wiki
Is there any way to customize XWiki to grant non-admin users the right to create new wikis.
In the case of a private wiki farm, where our user base is known, it would seem safe to do this.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Ah, I`ve just noticed that you've already chosen option 2) :) Anyway, glad you`ve solved your problem. Thanks, Eduard On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Stanley,
There would be 3 ways of addressing this limitation:
1) If you use subwikis in an intranet-like environment or, more generally, use only global users, and you wish to allow them to create subwikis where they can perform their work, then I would recomment that you try the recently released Workspace Application [1]. The only constraint for this is that you use XWiki 3.2 or greater.
2) A "quicker" solution is the one specified in the comment of a XEM Jira issue [2]. The problem with that, is that it always shows XWiki.Admin as the creator of the subwiki and you have to write some custom UI.
3) A final, third solution, is the one specified in the comments of the Wiki3.0 Jira issue [3] that you've previously referenced. It involves creating a new component, that uses the wikiManager plugin internally, but avoids the java permission checks that limit wiki creation only to admins. However, this has already been done for the Workspace Component [4] that is part of the Workspace Application suggested at 1).
Thanks, Eduard
P.S.: If you are interested in 1), there currently is a live demo instance [5] where you can try it out. ----------------- References: [1] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Workspace+Application [2] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XEM-113?focusedCommentId=25862&page=com.atlassi... [3] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/WIKITHREEDOTO-14 [4] http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Workspace+Component [5] http://wiki30-demo.xwiki.com
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Stanley Laufer <[email protected]>wrote:
Nevermind. I see the comments on the JIRA. I'm not 100% how to implement, but will investigate.
If anyone has developed documentation on how to do this, would you be willing forward?
Thanks...
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Stanley Laufer <[email protected]
wrote:
I see the following JIRA regarding this issue:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/WIKITHREEDOTO-14
But I'm not seeing any details regarding the resolution. Was a configuration option added to disable java rights checking for the current user? I scanned through xwiki.cfg, but I'm not seeing anything related...
Many thanks...
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stanley Laufer < [email protected]>wrote:
We're setting up a private XWiki wiki farm for our department.
Everything is working perfectly except for the fact that non-admin users cannot create new wikis. We'd prefer to allow registered users to create wikis on their own, without involving the admin.
Currently, when a non-admin user attempts to create a new wiki, they receive the following error:
Wiki "testwiki9" creation failed: Error number 9001 in 5: Exception in plugin xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.Wiki Manager Plugin?< https://sliswiki.sjsu.edu/bin/edit/com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager/WikiMana... : You dont have right to create wiki
Is there any way to customize XWiki to grant non-admin users the right to create new wikis.
In the case of a private wiki farm, where our user base is known, it would seem safe to do this.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University
-- Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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