On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Mauricio Miranda <[email protected]>wrote:
> We are trying to understand how GeoNode manages the permissions and it's > being a little hard. > > Right now, we need to know if it's possible to allow an anonymous user just > to view the data without download capabilities. > It is technically difficult to support this use case - viewing data and downloading data vary only by some formatting details (such as PNG vs. Shapefile) and GeoServer doesn't currently allow restricting access by format. I think there is some interest in this feature among the GeoNode community, however it is not on the roadmap wiki right now. While really restricting downloads would be difficult, a simpler measure would be to just hide the links - that could be accomplished just by modifying the permissions system (to add the new permission level) and the Django templates. > Another thing that results strange is that anybody who enters to the site > is able to create maps. Is there any reason for this? Can we remove this > option easily? > We consider this a feature - letting anonymous users work on maps until it is time to save encourages participation without especially burdening authenticated users of the site. There's currently no support for disabling this option. I think it would be somewhat difficult because GeoNode's map composer doesn't have a view-only version. So we'd need a full-screen map viewer (or a 'no-editing' mode for the composer) before we could disable editing for unauthenticated users. -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
