Question

OK, so now it doesn't actually work the way that I wanted. This is completely workable, but not doing what I want.

How do I create a list of links in WebLinks that is only displayed when a certain group of people are logged in?

I tried the following...

%IFACCESS{ type="change" user="Main.TWikiAdminGroup" glue="off" then="   * %ICONURL{wrench}% [[WebPreferences][Settings]]" else="" }%

There must be a way for this, no? Or did I use IFDEFINED wrongly?

Environment

-- KwangErnLiew - 10 Feb 2007

Answer

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Last night I've briefly discussed this with SvenDowideit and a good way to do this is...

1) create a RestrictedWebList and set ALLOWTOPICVIEW/DENYTOPICVIEW

2) slap it into WebLinks with an with a warn=off

3) works. Untested, yet. But I'm quite sure it works.

Why didn't I think of it in the first place... :|

-- KwangErnLiew - 11 Feb 2007

This might work out fine, but here's a shorter solution (less topics) taken from the latest NatSkin:

   * [[%TWIKIWEB%.WelcomeGuest][%MAKETEXT{"Welcome"}%]]
   * [[%TWIKIREGISTRATION%][%MAKETEXT{"Registration"}%]]
   * [[%MAINWEB%.TWikiUsers][%MAKETEXT{"Users"}%]]
   * [[%MAINWEB%.TWikiGroups][%MAKETEXT{"Groups"}%]]
   * [[%TWIKIWEB%.ChangePassword][%MAKETEXT{"Password"}%]]
%IFDEFINEDTHEN{"%IFACCESS{"%MAINWEB%.WebLinks" type="change"}%" as="1"}%
<!-- -->
   * [[%BASEWEB%.WebPreferences][%MAKETEXT{"Preferences"}%]]
   * [[%MAINWEB%.TWikiPreferences][%MAKETEXT{"SitePreferences"}%]]
%FIDEFINED%
%STOPINCLUDE%

<!--
   * DISABLED_Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup
-->

This is the definition of the WebLinks for the Main web. As you can see, it renders an extended navigation for guys in the TWikiAdminGroup. While this reduces the amount of topics that you need to generate the content of different navigations, you will still need a topic to check authorization against. In this case, this is the WebLinks topic itself. But this can be any arbitrary topic that applies the desired permissions.

-- MichaelDaum - 12 Feb 2007