[xwiki-users] Public vs. Private strict content separation - what's the best strategy?
We envision using xwiki to manage 2 different parts: 1. A public one accessible to our customers only 2. A private one for internal use only My question is the following: what is the best strategy to achieve a clean content separation: Space partitioning (i.e. one wiki, but 2 or more spaces) or wiki partitioning (i.e. separate wikis) Space partitioning seems easier to set up, because only 1 wiki is needed. However, my concern is the risk of having a sloppy employee inadvertently publishing an internal page on the wrong space, i.e. on a public space. With the wiki partitioning scenario, I don't even know if this is possible to set up xwiki so as to have several wikis while running on the same code base. On top of that, I would like to have internal users being able to search through a common index (public + private), while customers could only search the public one. I don't know if that's possible at all with wiki partitioning. Has anyone of you guys experience with such a setup? What are the pros and cons of each? What would the experts / architects recommend here? Thanks for the insights. ALBAN SCHMID CLIENT SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST DIRECTOR, CHANNEL SOLUTION SERVICES CBS Interactive - Channel Tel: +41 21 943 03 86 Skype: albanschmid Rte Industrielle 2 | CP 138 | 1806 St-Légier, Switzerland CNETChannel.com
Hi Alban, We envision using xwiki to manage 2 different parts:
1. A public one accessible to our customers only 2. A private one for internal use only
My question is the following: what is the best strategy to achieve a clean content separation:
Space partitioning (i.e. one wiki, but 2 or more spaces) or wiki partitioning (i.e. separate wikis)
Space partitioning seems easier to set up, because only 1 wiki is needed. However, my concern is the risk of having a sloppy employee inadvertently publishing an internal page on the wrong space, i.e. on a public space. With the wiki partitioning scenario, I don't even know if this is possible to set up xwiki so as to have several wikis while running on the same code base. On top of that, I would like to have internal users being able to search through a common index (public + private), while customers could only search the public one. I don't know if that's possible at all with wiki partitioning.
Has anyone of you guys experience with such a setup?
Yep. We actually have experience with both of them.
What are the pros and cons of each?
What would the experts / architects recommend here?
You can do both depending on your personal preference. Thanks to XWiki Enterprise Manager (http://manager.xwiki.org/), XWiki makes it easy to run 2 wikis as part of the same farm on the same server, meaning that you could have a shared user base and yet 2 different wikis. As for global search, you can setup a global search on XWiki Enteprise Manager. Since search results are rights-filtered, your users won't be able to see pages they're not allowed to either way. In XWiki you'll need to create 2 groups (one for your employees and one for your customers) and set rights for those groups at either the space or wiki level depending on your choice. Since you can set user rights and user interface preferences (skin color) both at the wiki and the space level, those features don't affect your decision much. To summarize: both solutions should work out fine. If you're afraid of having employee publishing stuff in the wrong place, you might want to setup 2 different wikis (they'll have their own URLs : http://wiki1.server.com/and http://wiki2.server.com/ which is probably the key point in yoru use case). Hope this helps, Guillaume
Thanks for the insights.
ALBAN SCHMID CLIENT SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST
DIRECTOR, CHANNEL SOLUTION SERVICES CBS Interactive - Channel Tel: +41 21 943 03 86
Skype: albanschmid Rte Industrielle 2 | CP 138 | 1806 St-Légier, Switzerland CNETChannel.com
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Thanks Guillaume, That's very useful. Regards, ALBAN SCHMID CLIENT SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST DIRECTOR, CHANNEL SOLUTION SERVICES CBS Interactive - Channel Tel: +41 21 943 03 86 Skype: albanschmid Rte Industrielle 2 | CP 138 | 1806 St-Légier, Switzerland CNETChannel.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:30 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Public vs. Private strict content separation -what's the best strategy? Hi Alban, We envision using xwiki to manage 2 different parts:
1. A public one accessible to our customers only 2. A private one for internal use only
My question is the following: what is the best strategy to achieve a clean content separation:
Space partitioning (i.e. one wiki, but 2 or more spaces) or wiki partitioning (i.e. separate wikis)
Space partitioning seems easier to set up, because only 1 wiki is needed. However, my concern is the risk of having a sloppy employee inadvertently publishing an internal page on the wrong space, i.e. on a public space. With the wiki partitioning scenario, I don't even know if this is possible to set up xwiki so as to have several wikis while running on the same code base. On top of that, I would like to have internal users being able to search through a common index (public + private), while customers could only search the public one. I don't know if that's possible at all with wiki partitioning.
Has anyone of you guys experience with such a setup?
Yep. We actually have experience with both of them.
What are the pros and cons of each?
What would the experts / architects recommend here?
You can do both depending on your personal preference. Thanks to XWiki Enterprise Manager (http://manager.xwiki.org/), XWiki makes it easy to run 2 wikis as part of the same farm on the same server, meaning that you could have a shared user base and yet 2 different wikis. As for global search, you can setup a global search on XWiki Enteprise Manager. Since search results are rights-filtered, your users won't be able to see pages they're not allowed to either way. In XWiki you'll need to create 2 groups (one for your employees and one for your customers) and set rights for those groups at either the space or wiki level depending on your choice. Since you can set user rights and user interface preferences (skin color) both at the wiki and the space level, those features don't affect your decision much. To summarize: both solutions should work out fine. If you're afraid of having employee publishing stuff in the wrong place, you might want to setup 2 different wikis (they'll have their own URLs : http://wiki1.server.com/and http://wiki2.server.com/ which is probably the key point in yoru use case). Hope this helps, Guillaume
Thanks for the insights.
ALBAN SCHMID CLIENT SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST
DIRECTOR, CHANNEL SOLUTION SERVICES CBS Interactive - Channel Tel: +41 21 943 03 86
Skype: albanschmid Rte Industrielle 2 | CP 138 | 1806 St-Légier, Switzerland CNETChannel.com
_______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://blog.xwiki.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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