Question

I have a page which works as described in this topic: SearchBookTitles

Now I want to restrict the creation of new pages based on the template. Only a certain group of users should be able to do this.

I tried setting 'ALLOWTOPICCHANGE' on the template, but that doesn't work. So is it possible to do this and, if it is, how can I do this?

Environment

-- PieterVanDerSpek - 14 Oct 2005

Answer

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Doesn't anyone have a clue on how to this?

-- PieterVanDerSpek - 19 Oct 2005

Yes. Split the topic into two. The "listing" is read-only. The ability to create is on another topic and conditionally included.

-- AntonAylward - 19 Oct 2005

A variation on Anton's suggestion:

• The index topic SearchBookTitles is not restricted
• The "create new entry" topic SearchBookTitlesAddNew has a ALLOWTOPICVIEW, set to the group of people who are allowed to create new entries

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Oct 2005

There is a way around both suggestions of course. Someone could just create a new topic titled "BookTyadayadayada" and it would show up in the listing. There is probably nothing to prevent this?

-- PieterVanDerSpek - 20 Oct 2005

If a user creates a BookTyadayadayada it will not show up in the index topic. This is because the SEARCH in the index topic expects content to be based on the BookTemplate topic.

A user could go to to template topic first, copy its content, create a new topic and replace the content with the template topic text. In this highly unlikely case the topic would show up in the index topic.

If you really need to lock down the application, you could wrte protect the whole web where the application is. I strongly suggest not to do that since this will hinder collaboration. See TWikiAccessControl

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Oct 2005

Thanks for your answer Peter. Protecting the "create new entry"-topic is sufficient in our case. However, I can imagine that it will not be sufficient for others. With the answers in this topic they know what can and cannot be done using TWiki.

-- PieterVanDerSpek - 21 Oct 2005

This may be too old to answer now but I solved it using ALLOWTOPICVIEW in template.

-- ChengappaCB - 2009-05-13