Question

Hello! I am writing a diploma thesis about TWiki . At the moment I am thinking about advantages and disadvantages of the idea of preferences variables that can be edited in topics. (possible security concerns, ease of administration, ect)

Does anybody know if there exists a topic with a discussion about that? If not, what could be the right place to create one?

Thank you! :o)

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-- StefanieWrobel - 17 Dec 2006

Answer

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Well here's my thoughts so far:

• It's great that there's one interface to everything
• It's far too easy to accidentally mess up the permissions on a topic

Therefore I was thinking that the preview interface should also show a separate list of changes to variables and parsed permissions, so the user can be sure those changes were what they intended...

This isn't really an answer so leaving the question open.

-- WoutMertens - 18 Dec 2006

Pluses:

• Complete audit trail. You get audit trail also for preferences, there is no extra programming required. Good for ISO/SOX
• Simple and quick to edit all in one page (programmers paradigm)

• Less obvious if there is a syntax error
• Not so intuitive for new users (mousing around with point and click is easier to understand)

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Dec 2006