Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Re: Re: Re: XoWiki 0.31 problem with deleted pages

I am not sure, if "hiding pages" and "protecting pages" is the same issue. Hiding pages is a rather workflow issue, saying when a page should be released to the "public", expressing a certain state of a page, while protecting certain pages is clearly a permission issue. permissions are quite slow in openacs, permissions on the object level are not so nice for caching either (compared to permissions on the package_ids or folder_ids). The policy are going into this direction, athough they have no userinterface yet. i will think about this...

Note, that this effects rss + weblog + search + visibility of links (references between pages) as well. The easiest approach seems to me currently to provide a separate xowiki instance for the "internal study" and merge these pages later into the public set when appropriate. import/export of xowiki can be easily extended to work between xowiki instances.