Question

Is there a mechanism or means to add a user to a group without manually ediitng?

I can set up a form with pull down lists for users and for the groups.

Am I going to have to write a specific CGI to go in /bin/ for this?

Environment

-- AntonAylward - 05 Oct 2005

Answer

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Anton: I am not aware of an existing Plugin or add-on, but you can scan the PluginPackages and AddOnPackages, or do a simple WebSearch.

If you write one I suggest a Plugin (instead of a standalone cgi script) that listens to a cgi paramter. (A similar thing has been done with the CommentPlugin for comment save.)

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Oct 2005

I'm reluctant to write a plugin that ends up loading down all topics, even those that don't use it. There are already too many plugins that do this. As CC has pointed out, the real slowdown for TWiki is compiling all this stuff that is never going to be executed.

-- AntonAylward - 06 Oct 2005

There is a minimal performance impact if you do lazy loading of Plugin code. See SpreadSheetPlugin and others that do that.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Oct 2005

You are correct, Peter, and I wish more plugin authors did that.

However my point still holds.

-- AntonAylward - 06 Oct 2005