I will move the link to Wiki Admin over to the left column and will
also put a button in the same column for those that have
HasManageNamespacePermission as well as a link to the TopicLocks page.

John Davidson

On 10/21/07, Craig Andera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 3) What about a "Lock Topic"/"Unlock Topic" button right there in the
> > right border if the user has the proper rights. Is that easy to do? It
> > seems it would be nice to bubble that functionality up rather than
> > forcing the user to go into the lock management page and hunt down the
> > topic.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I tend to agree. When I first thought of this feature, I always saw it as an
> additional button in the *left* border, but one that would only appear when
> the user had appropriate rights. It would read "Lock Topic" if the user was
> a NamespaceManager and the topic was unlocked, and it would read "Unlock
> Topic" if the user was a NamespaceManager and the topic was locked. Of
> course, there's nothing wrong with having the button in the Recent Changes
> page, too.
>
> Other comments:
>
> * I'm really glad to see the locking feature! Nice work. :)
>
> * It's a bit odd that the link to the wiki administration pages turns on
> whether a user has ManageNamespace: wiki administrators and namespace
> managers are potentially disjoint. I'd rather see the link to "administer
> wiki" be available full-time in the left border, even for users who don't
> have access. My thinking there is that it would encourage admins to secure
> the /admin app, an action I imagine many wiki admins do not currently take.
>
> * I'm don't agree that it would be hard to add this to the SqlProvider. The
> schema already supports it, and I *think* the AuthorizationProvider will
> already help us with the other part, which is blowing up on write if the
> topic is unreadable. The only thing we'd need to add would be
> implementations of LockTopic and UnlockTopic, which would require writing
> two stored procedures, or just doing direct table access if we don't want to
> require a database upgrade.
>
>
>
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