Question

In the previous version, in register.tmpl, I could do:

set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.%NEWWIKINAME%

to automatically protect new users pages to themself only.

I can't figure out how to do the same thing with NewUserTemplate ...

NEWWIKINAME seems to be gone... ??? Help ... ???

-- TomOehser - 07 Mar 2003

Answer

There must be a misunderstanding, NEWWIKINAME was never in a TWiki distribution. Try:

* Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = %WIKIUSERNAME%

FWIW, I do not recommend to restrict access to the user home pages, collaboration works best if there are as few roadblocks as possible. Read "An Important Control Consideration" in TWiki.TWikiAccessControl

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Mar 2003

Answer to Answer

The problem is, if I use

* Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = %WIKIUSERNAME%

in the NewUserTemplate, it doesn't get expanded into the wiki name they are currently registering, it just goes in as %WIKIUSERNAME%, which expands if you look at the user page to whatever id is viewing it. I want it to be expanded during registration to whatever the new wiki name being created is.

My old version of twiki had something in register that said:

$text =~ s/%NEWWIKINAME%/$wikiName/go;

Which I must have put in for this very problem.

For me, even if every other page in the place is wide open, I want a user's own wiki name page to default to being editable only by them.

Does this look OK, in register, allowing NEWWIKINAME in ALLOWTOPICCHANGE?

        $text = "$before$after";

# added by Tom Oehser
        $text =~ s/%NEWWIKINAME%/$wikiName/go;

        $meta->put( "TOPICPARENT", ( "name" => $TWiki::wikiUsersTopicname ) );
        &TWiki::Store::saveTopic( $webName, $wikiName, $text, $meta, "", 1 );

-- TomOehser - 11 Mar 2003

See Codev.ExpandVariablesInNewUserTemplate

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Mar 2003