Arg. I forgot to mention there is one kind in the setup: tiddler import mechanism.
An enterprising and knowledgeable-enough TiddlyWiki user can break my secure setup by dragging and dropping a tiddler that totally up-ends my fine-grained security. That's the one thing I need to resolve. On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 1:22:46 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote: > Alternatively, you could setup a "guest" login account that anybody could > use to edit only certain tiddlers. > > For that to work requires some trickery that allows only certain users to > do certain things for certain tiddlers. > > It is a setup for fine-grained user-id/role fine-grained control which I > seem to have working, but have no time to explain. Just know it can be > done, just with tiddlers. > > On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 1:10:51 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote: > >> I think how I'd set things up: >> >> Those few tiddlers you want anonymous users to edit, put those in another >> TiddlyWiki, say TiddlyWiki B. TiddlyWiki A being the one you referenced in >> your OP. >> >> Setup TiddlyWiki A to include TiddlyWiki B. >> >> For tiddlers from TiddlyWiki B, setup an alternative "edit mechanism", >> i.e. a button that pops open that tiddler in a new window that opens >> TiddlyWiki B, with the tiddler from B open for editing. Maybe a setup so >> that a user can do nothing but edit the specific tiddler (i.e. no access to >> all the other goodies in TiddlyWiki B. (Using the HTML dialog element >> <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_dialog.asp> in a TiddlyWiki B >> tiddler, you could cover the entire browser page with an editor for the one >> tiddler. No access to anything else TiddlyWiki B. The user presses save >> button. ) >> >> As an alternative to including TiddlyWiki B tiddlers in TiddlyWiki A, it >> might be better to have iframe's in TiddlyWiki A that show tiddlers from >> TiddlyWiki B and allow editing right there. Reason: TiddlyWiki A won't >> show the latest and greatest from TiddlyWiki B until TiddlyWiki A is >> restarted. But if TiddlyWiki A shows TiddlyWiki B in iframe windows, no >> problemo. >> >> On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 12:43:44 PM UTC-4 andres....@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> OK, let me preface this by saying that I am trying to selectively get >>> around the read-only mode on my wiki. >>> I usually run my main instance with anon access for readers and >>> authenticated for writers. It's great and does the job. >>> But, I want to be able to allow changes by anons for *some* tiddlers. >>> specifically, I want users to be able to click a button which does an >>> ActionSendMessage of tm-add-tag or tm-remove-tag. But this button only >>> shows up in some tiddlers based on their tags. >>> Now, I did add another sendmessage of tm-save-wiki to that button which >>> *does* save the changed tiddler. Unfortunately, i also triggers the >>> download dialog for the html file which is undesirable. >>> >>> Is there any way I can force a save without getting that dialog? >>> Is there a better way I can do what I am trying to do? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0e97555e-b9a0-448f-a77d-1897df7ceec6n%40googlegroups.com.
