Features / Usability

Posted by George Greene 07 Oct 2010 17:18 GMT-0000 posts: 257

This is all done with groups and permissions.

There are default groups for "Anonymous"(unregistered-unlogged-in), "Registered" (Registered and logged in) and Admin (you). You will want to create a "Collaborators" group in the "Groups" admin area.

Click the key icon on one of the groups. You'll end up in the "Assign Global Permissions" area.

You'll see a list of features. Click the dropdown triangle dealie next to feature you'd like to assign permissions for.

You'll see a list of that area's features with the ability to manage permissions for each group by individual feature. For example, in the "Wiki" section you may choose to allow anyone (Anonymous) to "participate in rating of wiki pages" but allow only "Collaborators" to "can edit pages".

This very granular approach to permissions is a great feature of Tiki!

Now, in answer to items 2 and 3, yes, groups can inherit permissions from "lower" groups. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a hierarchy to these groups. Anonymous is lowest, Registered is next, any you create are higher still, and finally Admins, who can do whatever the heck they please anywhere the want to (so admins don't even show up as a choice).

If, for example you enable Registered users to post comments on blog posts, any group above (Collaborators) inherits that permission when you check the Registered box. If only Collaborators can post comments then neither registered users or anonymous can post because Collaborator are higher up the food chain.

Tiki has some common sense permissions preloaded. EX: "can edit pages" is defaulted to Registered users while "view rating of pages" is default enabled for everyone (Anonymous).

So, you can see that if you do not let "Anonymous" view the wiki at all, then they can't see it. (if they somehow get to the URL, they'll get an error message). Likewise if you don't let Registered users see Trackers, then they can't.

Taking it a step further, when you initially create (or edit) a group, you can assign groups their own default home page.

So, you might want to create a page for Anonymous users that say's "Keep out, ya buggers!". When registered users log in they see the wiki and when collaborators log in they see the wiki -and they can edit it.

Tiki is complex and deep and because of that, you, the admin, have a great deal of control over the most minute details and because you can selectively assign some admin functions like approving forum posts to, for example, "Collaborators", you won't have to do it all!