Question

Managemnt in a cooperative web is confused by many topics having owner Peter Thoeny who does not work for the company. They ordered me to change the topic owner.

How can I do this?

Problems:

• Changing, moving or editing the Topic does not change the owner in the header

• The repRev trick does not do the job, because all I get is

During save of file OfficeLocations an error was found by the version control system. Please notify your TWiki administrator.

g:/twikiUnixSupportFiles/ci -l -x,v -q -mnone -t-none -d"2000/12/14 02:51:31" -w"PeterThoeny" "G:/twiki/twiki1/data/Main/OfficeLocations.txt" "G:/twiki/twiki1/data/Main/OfficeLocations.txt,v"

Environment

-- ClemensCap - 06 Oct 2005

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

There are two things: Last author of a topic and signature in the topic.

The last author of a topic is recorded by the version control system. There is no easy way to hide the last author besides editing & empty saving every topic.

Topic in the offical docs have one or more signatures in the topic. That is mainly in the TWiki web. Consider adding a BROADCAST message in the TWiki.WebPreferences to indicate that these are company external docs of TWiki. BROADCAST message is explained in TWikiPreferences

Some of the Main web's topics might have a signature too. Simply edit the topic and remove the signature.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Oct 2005

Boradcast is a good solution for this when it comes to the documentation, since it also respects copyright.

The other side was that the lock files still had the wrong owner. Throwing away the ,v files solved that problem.

Thanx,

-- ClemensCap - 06 Oct 2005

Throwing away the ,v files will throw away all topic revisions. Consider relocking the topics, see TWikiInstallationGuide

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Oct 2005

You could also try installing the Dakar Beta, we've sanitised all topic owners.

Bear in mind that not all the plugins work in Dakar.

-- MartinCleaver - 06 Oct 2005

Thanx for the hint, Martin. Problem is, however, that users are heavily relying on SectionalEditPlugin and, so far as I know, this has not yet been converted to Dakar, but is essential for my user group. Any chance to get a working Daka variant if it somewhere ? I could code it myself but I have no good Perl knowledge, thats my problem.

-- ClemensCap - 07 Oct 2005

Dakar is still work in progress and the verdict on the sigs is pending. The aforementioned solution for Cairo should work.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Oct 2005

Thanx Peter for the hint, also on relocking. With Cairo, however, the locking system and the associated problems OccasionallyEmptyRCSLock and RCSLiteEmptiesTheLockInRcsFiles had become a pressing issue on my installation as well so that I consider Dakar as a solution.

-- ClemensCap - 07 Oct 2005