Thanks Guillaume, That's very useful.
Regards, ALBAN SCHMID CLIENT SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST DIRECTOR, CHANNEL SOLUTION SERVICES CBS Interactive - Channel Tel: +41 21 943 03 86 Skype: albanschmid Rte Industrielle 2 | CP 138 | 1806 St-Légier, Switzerland CNETChannel.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:30 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Public vs. Private strict content separation -what's the best strategy? Hi Alban, We envision using xwiki to manage 2 different parts: > > 1. A public one accessible to our customers only > 2. A private one for internal use only > My question is the following: what is the best strategy to achieve a clean > content separation: > > Space partitioning (i.e. one wiki, but 2 or more spaces) or wiki > partitioning (i.e. separate wikis) > > Space partitioning seems easier to set up, because only 1 wiki is needed. > However, my concern is the risk of having a sloppy employee inadvertently > publishing an internal page on the wrong space, i.e. on a public space. With > the wiki partitioning scenario, I don't even know if this is possible to set > up xwiki so as to have several wikis while running on the same code base. On > top of that, I would like to have internal users being able to search > through a common index (public + private), while customers could only search > the public one. I don't know if that's possible at all with wiki > partitioning. > > Has anyone of you guys experience with such a setup? Yep. We actually have experience with both of them. > What are the pros and cons of each? > What would the experts / architects recommend here? > You can do both depending on your personal preference. Thanks to XWiki Enterprise Manager (http://manager.xwiki.org/), XWiki makes it easy to run 2 wikis as part of the same farm on the same server, meaning that you could have a shared user base and yet 2 different wikis. As for global search, you can setup a global search on XWiki Enteprise Manager. Since search results are rights-filtered, your users won't be able to see pages they're not allowed to either way. In XWiki you'll need to create 2 groups (one for your employees and one for your customers) and set rights for those groups at either the space or wiki level depending on your choice. Since you can set user rights and user interface preferences (skin color) both at the wiki and the space level, those features don't affect your decision much. To summarize: both solutions should work out fine. If you're afraid of having employee publishing stuff in the wrong place, you might want to setup 2 different wikis (they'll have their own URLs : http://wiki1.server.com/and http://wiki2.server.com/ which is probably the key point in yoru use case). Hope this helps, Guillaume > > > > Thanks for the insights. > > > > > > ALBAN SCHMID > CLIENT SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST > > DIRECTOR, CHANNEL SOLUTION SERVICES > CBS Interactive - Channel > Tel: +41 21 943 03 86 > > Skype: albanschmid > Rte Industrielle 2 | CP 138 | 1806 St-Légier, Switzerland > CNETChannel.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://blog.xwiki.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
