On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:56, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 20:55, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Thomas
>> Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Another way is to log with superadmin before importing the xar (but it
>>> means all the pages will have superadmin as author).
>>
>> I thought that was de rigueur in Xwiki. If you didn't import as superadmin
>> into a multiwiki, how could you get working any documents containing scripts
>> that require programming rights? If you don't import this way,
>> for example, you won't be able to control the openoffice importer (last I
>> checked, a lot has changed since too) or other such prog-right-needing
>> script-documents.
>
> When you import as backup pack (liek it used to be before the new
> importer) all the other of the document are the same than the authors

other=authors

> you have in the xar and in a default XE all documents have XWiki.Admin
> as author who has programming right in a default XE.
>
>> I wish there was a way of having a multiwiki refer to the "root" wiki's Xar
>> file contents, or even better, that there was a "template wiki" containing a
>> shared copy of the Xar for all wikis. Having the document in the local wiki
>> would override the template wiki's "application documents and general wiki
>> config". That way a new wiki would be populated immediately, by the contents
>> of the template wiki; overrides would be modified local copies of the
>> template, or whole new applications that might reside in a subwiki but not
>> the template wiki.
>
> Well you can configure template wiki the way you want and when you
> create a new wiki it's used to populate the new wiki if you choose it
> as template in the create wiki UI.
>
>> This would also alleviate the need to give or use superadmin in a subwiki.
>>  Any superadmin-needing documents would reside in the template wiki and
>> would be inherited into the subwiki and granted programming rights there.
>> That way, one could tightly control the use of programming rights in a
>> subwiki, where a set of  safe programming rights scripts would only reside
>> in the template wiki, and subwiki's could only reference prog-right-having
>> documents deemed safe enough to use in the "template wiki". (unless the
>> subwiki admin got superadmin rights to add extra programing-rights
>> script/documents to a specific subwiki).
>>
>> Niels
>> http://nielsmayer.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas Mortagne
>



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Thomas Mortagne
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