On 09/30/2011 11:18 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with this, especially given the use case described by Dimitry a > couple weeks ago where an user with edit rights on a page were able to give > himself the right to delete it. In addition to this, it's quite rare to have > to assign this right at page level. "Delete" is a clean-up right that > usually makes sense at the space level (at least), less so at the page > level. > > Side question: does this have an impact on the right to rename a page? Is > the "rename" right mapped to the edit or the delete action?
Renaming implies deleting the old document, so yes, currently one can't rename a document if they can't delete it as well. Still, this is just a technical link, given by the fact that we don't have a real rename method, it's just copy+delete. > So I'm +1 to remove the "delete" right at document level. > > Guillaume > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rights have different scopes in XWiki. Administration rights can only be >> set on a space or wiki level, and any "admin" right set on a document >> alone will be silently ignored. Programming rights are only considered >> when set on the xwiki:XWiki.XWikiPreferences document, being ignored in >> any other virtual wiki and at the space or document level. >> >> Delete rights are a bit special as well. By default, the creator of a >> document has delete rights on that document. Unlike the other rights >> which default to true when no right is set, this one defaults to false. >> >> So, by default, when no "delete" rights are set on the >> document/space/wiki, only the creator of a document and administrators >> are allowed to delete it. >> >> Should we allow setting the delete right at the document level? >> >> Personally, I'd say no, since it's a rare requirement for a non-creator >> to be able to delete just one document. Space-level rights should be >> enough, IMO. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
