Question

I have a topic that I would like to allow a specific user group to access.

The problem is that I have 50 or so sub topics that are children of this topic and I want ALL of those children topics to have the exact same permissions as their parent topic. Additionally I don't want the group to have access to any other part of the web JUST this topic and all of its children.

I know that webs have hierarchal access control, but from what I have read topics don't? Is there any reasonable way for me to just have the children of this topic inherit their access controls from their parent or am I going to have to grind through all 50 child topics and set up access controls for each one?

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-- GregGardinier - 02 Aug 2007

Answer

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Unfortunately inheritance of settings across a child/parent relationship is not possible. The closest thing I could recommend is something for which it is too late in your installation: If you have a formal process for creating the children topics, for example in a TWiki application, then you can let them start with the right permissions by creating the topics with an appropriate templatetopic.

-- HaraldJoerg - 02 Aug 2007

May be you can use GlobalReplacePlugin to add the permissions to your topic.

Don't know if this is possible, though. Just an idea...

-- CarloSchulz - 03 Aug 2007

Wow that's really unfortunate. Is there any chance this will make it into a future Twiki build?

-- GregGardinier - 06 Aug 2007

Sorry, but I dare say this is unlikely to happen in the near future, given the pile of features which already are on TWiki's shopping list. TWiki's access control variables are part of a bigger problem: The variables concept is complicated enough as it is, and already is one of the nasty performance bottlenecks.

However, if someone comes up with a working spec and implementation, then nothing is impossible....

-- HaraldJoerg - 06 Aug 2007

Good summary Harald.

-- PeterThoeny - 26 Sep 2007