28 Apr
2010
28 Apr
'10
12:14 a.m.
Hello,
I'm a CS major in my 2nd year of school. I've been using XWiki for a
personal wiki project and have run into a wall with a few things. I've
frequently run into issues where I give a group the access rights to
view a page, which overrides default settings and forces me to specify
viewing permissions for the groups that should have access to that
page based on the space settings. This is quite cumbersome when there
are many groups that should have access to the page. Are there plans
to include a feature that would optionally allow the page to inherit
permissions from the space and merge them with the current page
settings?
Thanks, Carlos
28 Apr
28 Apr
4:40 a.m.
I think that is the way it works now.
In order for a user or group to view a page they must be allowed the permission
either in the page, space, or wiki.
Permissions for the page take precedent over permissions for the space and space
permissions
take precedent over wiki wide permissions so allowence for the space is overridden by
denial
for the page.
Is that what you were asking about? If I was off base maybe you can give your specific
problem.
Caleb
Carlos Correa wrote:
Hello,
I'm a CS major in my 2nd year of school. I've been using XWiki for a
personal wiki project and have run into a wall with a few things. I've
frequently run into issues where I give a group the access rights to
view a page, which overrides default settings and forces me to specify
viewing permissions for the groups that should have access to that
page based on the space settings. This is quite cumbersome when there
are many groups that should have access to the page. Are there plans
to include a feature that would optionally allow the page to inherit
permissions from the space and merge them with the current page
settings?
Thanks, Carlos
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5:01 a.m.
Hey all,
I think what Carlos is saying is that a simple addition of a group or user to a page's
access rights totally overrides the space's access rights. This is only a problem I
assume when there is a large number of groups and users who have access rights to the
space, requiring users to reselect all of those groups and users again on the page access
rights when the goal was just to add a viewing right, for example, for a user jsmith.
I think a checkbox "Inherit space rights" will allow the user to automatically
inherit the space rights AS WELL AS add his own rights to that page, eliminating the
overhead necessary for users to reselect all of the rights for a page. Is there a feature
request list that Carlos could maybe add this to?
Regards
Felix
----- Original Message ----
From: Caleb James DeLisle <calebdelisle(a)lavabit.com>
To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org>
Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 9:40:12 PM
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] New to XWiki
I think that is the way it works now.
In order for a user or group to view a page they must be allowed the permission
either in the page, space, or wiki.
Permissions for the page take precedent over permissions for the space and space
permissions
take precedent over wiki wide permissions so allowence for the space is overridden by
denial
for the page.
Is that what you were asking about? If I was off base maybe you can give your specific
problem.
Caleb
Carlos Correa wrote:
Hello,
I'm a CS major in my 2nd year of school. I've been using XWiki for a
personal wiki project and have run into a wall with a few things. I've
frequently run into issues where I give a group the access rights to
view a page, which overrides default settings and forces me to specify
viewing permissions for the groups that should have access to that
page based on the space settings. This is quite cumbersome when there
are many groups that should have access to the page. Are there plans
to include a feature that would optionally allow the page to inherit
permissions from the space and merge them with the current page
settings?
Thanks, Carlos
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