SID-01496: Topic access restriction

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	perl 5.10.1
Category:	CategoryAccessControl	Server OS:	Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS	Last update:	13 years ago

I want to hide few topics in a web from other users, how can this be achieved? Also is there a way to hide list of accessible menu's from users? Example as an admin i want to view "Admin Maintenance" menu but i want to hide this menu from others. How can this be achieved?

-- SupriyaHandoo - 2012-07-02

Discussion and Answer

On access restriction, add a ALLOWTOPICVIEW setting. Details in TWikiAccessControl.

On conditional pulldown menu, do a %IF{ " '%WIKINAME%' ingroup 'TWikiAdminGroup' " ...}%. See examples at TopMenuSkinTopBar and TopMenuSkinTopicMenu (do a Raw View). Docs at IfStatements.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-07-02

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the menu settings, it worked as i wanted it to on my test web.

Also i added DENYTOPICVIEW = " a user" , under web preferences of that web however that didn't work. Say i created a "TestTopic" topic under my test web but the blocked user can still access "TestTopic". Is there something that im missing here. Any help would be appreciated.

-- SupriyaHandoo - 2012-07-02

There is may be a sequence issue, you can't use deny & allow at the same time. In any case, I avoid deny because it is prone to user errors.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-07-02

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