Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki

2: Re: Another 'How-to" question with xowiki (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/16/09 01:31 PM

You CAN set permissions per page, they are just objects. What is missing is a user interface. If you are clever you can hack a permissions URL with the object_id like
/permissions/one?object%5fid=123

This should be much easier than trying to run two wikis. Just rename the index page so it doesn't come up as the default URL and create a new public index page.

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Posted by Victor Guerra on 07/16/09 02:59 PM

Just go to the admin section of you xowiki instance. Then go to the parameters section and search for the security_policy parameter; and use the ::xowiki::policy3 value.

Afterwards you go to /admin/list and you will see that every row gets a lock icon which links to the interface where you can change the permissions on a page basis.

For more info, check http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xowiki-doc/#security-management

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Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/16/09 03:05 PM

Thanks Victor. I thought there was a way to do that. I checked OpenACS.org but its using older xowiki without policy3. It's great that the documentation is up to date!

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Posted by Victor Guerra on 07/16/09 03:17 PM

Actually openacs.org is using the latest version of xowiki 0.118 but true.. with policy1.

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Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/16/09 03:22 PM

Oh, Ok. I looked in the parameters and it said the possible values where policy1 and policy2.

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Posted by Victor Guerra on 07/16/09 03:24 PM

True, it is just that the param description is not up2date.

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Posted by Richard Hamilton on 07/20/09 03:05 AM

Fantastic, thanks guys. 😊