Hi,

This is fixed, i will be part of 2.1.2. See
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4686 for more details.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 19:55, Meng Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     We are currently using the include macro to “include” the content of one 
> page on another page, but have stumbled upon a few problems.
> The intention of using the include macro was to selectively show content from 
> TestPage1 on TestPage2 only to those users who had read access to TestPage1.
> For people with no access to TestPage1, the content should be silently 
> dropped without an error message so the viewer without access privileges 
> would not be able to see data from TestPage1 on TestPage2.
> However in the current implementation, there are a few problems.
>
> The include macro seems to work only if the space name is specified, even 
> when the included page is in the same space.
> If the space name is omitted, only individuals with admin rights are able to 
> view the included page correctly. For everyone else, with appropriate access 
> rights, a “Failed to execute macro: include” error gets produced instead.
>
> For example, in our Sandbox space, we tried including TestPage1 into 
> TestPage2 using the following:
> {{include document="TestPage1"/}}
> And all the pages under the Sandbox space are viewable by everyone.
>
> In this situation, only users with admin rights are able to view the page 
> correctly, while ordinary users see an error message and a stack trace. The 
> stack trace indicates a "Failed to get content for Document" exception.
>
> So the ultimate questions are:
>
> Is the space name mandatory for the include macro?
>
> Is there a technique that allows us to silently produce empty content if the 
> user is not given access rights to that included page (as opposed to seeing 
> an error message)?
>
> Are there any other methods of “including” another page without using the 
> include macro?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Felix Wu
>
>
>
>
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