Poop. Typo: there is one *KINK* in the setup. On Wednesday, November 24, 2021 at 1:27:44 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote:
> 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/8162c49e-1dbe-428f-ae16-0604c0379988n%40googlegroups.com.
