Question

A TWIKI BASED WEB JOURNAL

Hi, I collaborate to the the Italy Indymedia web journal.

http://italy.indymedia.org

A tool like TWIKI I think will be very useful to coordinate our work and to create a really interactive web journal!

These are our specific needs:

We will have three groups of users, with different privileges.

1) EDITORIAL TEAM

2) READ AND EDIT USERS

3) ONLY READ USERS

First group is the EDITORIAL TEAM. These users must authenticate themseves so they can read ALL THE PAGES, can edit them and can create new pages to edit.

The "new" pages MUST BE INVISIBLE to other users. When a "new" page is finished, it can be published: publishing a page, means only to change its access level!

Second one is the READ AND EDIT USERS. These users can read only the VISIBLE PAGES and must authenticate themselves so they can edit some specific pages (i.e. comments to an article).

Third group is the ONLY READ USERS. These users have no need to authenticate themself and can view only the VISIBLE PAGES.

Q.: Are supported the features I explained?

Q.: If not, can you make an add-on to support them?

Thanks!

magius

contact: magius@inventatiPLEASENOSPAM.org

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-- MaGius - 28 Apr 2002

Answer

Moved from TWiki.TWikiVariables.

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Apr 2002

You can probably do what's required here, though it may require some experimentation. For a truly read-only subset of the site, see the GenHTMLAddon, though this may not be required if TWiki's security model is enough. See TWikiAccessControl and ApprovingRegistrations - without the latter, it's easy for anyone to register pretending to be someone else.

One way to have pages that are invisible to other users is to have a 'pre-publication' hidden web in TWiki, and then rename/move the pages into the 'published' web. You might want to suppress the 'renamed from xxx' message by customising TWiki.

Be sure to test this well, and note that TWiki is not really intended to be ultra secure - check SecureSetup for some ideas here, particularly if you are on a web hosting provider.

-- RichardDonkin - 28 Apr 2002

Definitelly at least some parts of it can be done. We have CodersForHire to customize TWiki for you.

-- PeterMasiar - 29 Apr 2002