SID-01859: Change Default Users Prefs

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.0	Perl version:	5.10.1
Category:	CategoryRegistration	Server OS:	Debian	Last update:	12 years ago

Hi!

how can I automatically add a preference to a new users page? I want every registered user to have this setting on their user page automatically (without the "literal" stuff):

* Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = %TOPIC%

What I want to achieve is:

• The web has restricted access: you can only edit topics if you are in Approved-Users-Group
• so after registration a user can't edit his personal user page (to add his email address, phone number, whatever)
• This settings should be put to his user page automatically when it is created
• What this preference does: it allows him to change his user page because his wikiname is the same as the topicname

-- Karsten Priegnitz - 2014-01-20

Discussion and Answer

You can customize the Main.NewUserTemplate to fit your needs. If it does not exist, clone the one from the TWiki web - see TWikiInstallationGuide

You probably need ALLOWTOPICCHANGE, not ALLOWWEBCHANGE.

You have control over variable expansion, see TWikiTemplates

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-01-20

Worked like a charm (Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = %TOPIC%).

But what does "Add a default ALLOWTOPICCHANGE ..." in TWikiInstallationGuide mean?

Danke, Karsten

-- Karsten Priegnitz - 2014-01-21

What we discussed there

In any case, I do not recommend locking down user profile pages. Read TWikiAccessControl.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-01-21

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