Unfortunately the page at http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/PermissionTag
is woefully out of date. Please see
http://doc.jspwiki.org/2.8/wiki/Security
http://doc.jspwiki.org/2.8/wiki/PagePermissions
http://doc.jspwiki.org/2.8/wiki/WikiPermissions
(We would need someone to really go through all pages and figure out
what is obsolete and what is not - we moved documentation to
doc.jspwiki.org quite a while ago, but loads of old pages still remain.)
/Janne
On Dec 3, 2008, at 19:56 , Bob Paige wrote:
Up til now we have one JSPWiki in-house for use by development. But
now we
are finding that some of the assumptions made by engineering need
to be
documented for customer service (CS) and the trainers. These
assumptions are
being documented in the dev wiki, but we are looking for the best
way to
make them available to CS and I'd like opinions.
Optimally, I restrict which pages the CS people can see by some
rule. Since
I am planning on a single "CustomerService" page as the entry-point
for CS
people, fashioning a rule that only allowed them to see pages that
link to
the "CustomerService" page would be good.
Option 1: send 'em a link
The simplest thing to do would be to show them where the wiki is
and have at
it. As long as they don't login, they can't change anything.
The downside to this approach is that CS may stumble upon dev-
oriented wiki
pages which could lead to more questions ("what does this mean?") or,
worst-case, CS tells the customer something based on their
(potentially
flawed) intrepetation of what they find there.
Option 2: assign permissions on each page
This page (http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/PermissionTag) says you can
only
specify edit permissions, and what I would want is the ability to
indicate
which pages the CS person could view
Downsides:
- doesn't seem to provide what I need
- would require adding the permission to every page I want excluded
Option 3: write a filter
I could write a filter that does what I described above; if the
page doesn't
link to the "CustomerService" page, don't let them see it.
Downside:
- gotta write the filter (not too hard)
- if we want the CS people to add pages in the future, how well
would this
work?
Option 4: separate wiki
I could easily create a separate wiki for the CS people.
Downside: dev people would have to switch to the other wiki to
create the
pages for it, which goes against my whole motivation in doing this.
Thoughts?
--
Bobman
