-shameless bump- So "Copy Page" is the prefered way?

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?

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).

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]

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.

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]

Our use case: We use a script that displays the childpages of a page (the user can also choose how many columns that list should have). These pages are display in alphabetic-order based on the PageName (not display name). In order to change the order of that list, one must rename the page...which only the owner of that page can do (or an admin, but I don't like giving admin rights to other people :-) Giving a user the right to rename a page would indeed solve my problem :-) -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Change-Page-Owner-tp7219422p7595737.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users