SID-00608: Customise skin/template depending on permissions

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:
Category:	CategorySkin	Server OS:		Last update:	16 years ago

I am using: TWiki 4.3.2

I'm getting to grips with the templating system, but one thing I am having trouble with is that, for example, I want to display some links / actions to admins - that I don't want to display to regular users.

I have tried setting different skins in the TWikiUsers page (for the particular admin) - just as a test, but it is over-ridden by the web-preferences.

Ideally what I want to do is to be able to use a simple IF statement in the web preferences so that if the user is an Admin they use the patternskin - else they see the restricted one.

If that's not possible, can I do an IF statement in the different TMPL files to check if the user is an admin.

Presumably there is a wikiway of doing this sort of thing So if there's a better / standard way to do this - please point me in the right direction.

Thanks for any and all help, Patrick

-- PatrickDavey - 2009-11-04

Discussion and Answer

How about simply setting a SKIN = pattern setting in the profile pages of all admins?

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-01-03

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