Question

On the Twiki implementation I will be using, we are going to have some information that is public, and some that is only going to be available to certain member groups. However, this is not broken up by distinct topics, so there may be some private topics in a web and some public topics in the same web. I was looking for an easy way to allow topics to be marked as either public or locked off (from both reading and writing) to certain groups, and it seems as if forms are the best way. However, I'm not sure if this is possible with forms. Is this possible? If not, what's the best way to accomplish this?

Thanks.

• TWiki version: r1.8
• Perl version: 5.006001
• Web server & version: Apache 1.3.27
• Server OS: Linux / Cpanel
• Web browser & version: Mozilla 1.3
• Client OS: WinXP

-- TWikiGuest - 08 May 2003

Answer

I think that UsingFormsForSettings should do this, although I've only tested with TWikiPreferences and WebPreferences. Note that this is currently in AlphaRelease. FormFieldsPlugin should give you a list of users and groups to choose from.

-- JohnTalintyre - 08 Jun 2003

And you can always use the

• Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = Main.MyPrivateGroup
• Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.MyPrivateGroup

syntax to lock down ceratin pages from view and edit. Note that ALLOWTOPICVIEW is not documented since it is not very secure at this time, at least with pre-01 Feb 2003 version.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Oct 2003