Dear all, My teaching site is hosted on Tiddlyspot, where students can access it for notes and resources, and I can make ongoing additions and edits.
On my TW Classic site (also Tiddlyspot), there was a "backstage" area, and a "readOnly" checkbox (which I tucked in an odd corner) that would always default to "true" until I unchecked it (or loaded with a readOnly:no url variant).... I have tried doing my homework: I looked at http://tw5readonly.tiddlyspot.com/ since it's clearly in the ballpark... but I despaired that it would work for me: I don't want the Tiddlyspot server to sometimes show everything to everyone (while I'm between edits with AutoSave on, which I do love!), and serve up the readOnly interface only when I restore the theme manually and save. I have looked at the official tiddler about Web Server Authorization <https://tiddlywiki.com/#WebServer%20Authorization> here, but I found no documentation there about how to get the ViewTemplate and other UI elements to respond to the difference between writers and (anonymous, non-authenticated) readers (and I'm not even sure whether/how all this applies to Tiddlyspot in particular.) I found a 2014 thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/hF30Y9WD9lE> where Jeremy mentioned once-upon-a-time having a blue "edit" button at the top right. Until it was clicked none of the UI > paraphernalia associated with editing was displayed... got lost in some > refactoring at some point... Almost-hooray. That would have been fine (equivalent to what I had in TWC), since this isn't a matter of sensitive data, but rather of efficient and clean GUI for readers. Dave Gifford also recently asked an equivalent question <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/readonly$20mode%7Csort:date/tiddlywiki/3FQGwx4184Q/i4pTe38kHQAJ> -- but not for Tiddlyspot. I'm afraid any solution that involves "then, do these steps before you upload" doesn't cut it for a Tiddlyspot-hosted wiki; this situation calls for a dynamic solution. (And I really am editing this thing continuously and wanting students to see new material promptly, so I'm not poised to add a frequent step like exporting to a read-only at a different URL.) So, what's the current wisdom? Ideally, it should be achievable to make sure that readers who have not authenticated with Tiddlyspot (or, maybe just: readers who haven't entered a password, or who have not found the special unlocked "back door" checkbox/url variant/empty button, whose state doesn't get saved at the server...) don't encounter the interface elements that are only appropriate for me as writer/admin. A bunch of stuff is then revealed *only* when in admin (not readOnly) mode: - Page Toolbar shows me control panel, tag manager, time stamps on/off, etc. - View Toolbar shows me edit, info, clone, encrypt, etc. Surely someone must have solved this challenge? I regret that at this point I'm needing to ask how. Thanks for any help you can offer! -Springer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8e9d8979-2ea1-4169-9017-635889979b17%40googlegroups.com.
