Pui Lam Wong wrote:
1)
How do I enforce a rule so that when I'm the owner of a page, others can
submit changes to the page, but must get my "review" before the new
version is actually published.
We haven't made an effort to enforce this. If it becomes a problem, we
can change things. It would be more complicated from the administration
point of view, so I think it's better to wait until an actual need
arises. The people who join OOoAuthors are very nice and will follow
guidelines purely out of respect.
2)
If two person with "author" permission is editing the page together, and
when one person submit right before the other one do his submittion, the
data that is processed first would be replaced by the copy before.
Is there anyway to prevent this by enforcing "review" rule so that if
more than one person is editing the page, the owner can look at (review)
these two person's submission and do a manual merge (or something like
that) before finalising the page?
This is a wiki-ish feature. Plone has a wiki built-in which might have
this feature built in. I've never tried to do this though.
3)
What permission does an "author" has? What's the difference between
author and owner? Since it seems like author is a role added by the
oooauthors group, I want to know a little about the permission setup of
this role.
An author has permissions to edit/add/delete files and folders. In this
sense there is no real difference with "owner" and I think we should do
away with the "owner" role altogether. It just makes administration more
complicated.
Earlier on we tried having local roles, where someone would be an author
in one folder but not in another. But administration became very very
difficult. So I started moving all the folders to the new system we use
today. The current system is simpler, and less prone to breaking.
Cheers,
Daniel.
--
"It's like a rainbow. Without an observer at a 23 degree angle to
the light reflecting off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no
rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a 23
degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the
contact of photon and retina, some space between rock and mind."
- Zoya Boone, Red Mars
