On 01/29/2010 09:20 PM, Meng Wu wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I posted the following question around a week ago, but it still > hasn't been answered, so I thought I'd give it another try. > > Basically, I have been having problems with the automatic updating > feature on the access rights page. The Ajax automatic updating > mechanism inadvertently locks me out of the access rights page when I > try to change the rights by cycling through them. The cycle of rights > is Blank (Default) -> Allow -> Deny -> back to Default, etc. > Because of the automatic access control updating feature, when I > cycle through Deny in order to get to "Default", I am automatically > denied viewing rights, and thus locked out of my own page. This > problem becomes burdensome as countless users will regularly have to > contact Admins to get them to unlock the pages.
Yes, this is known, and will be fixed soon (hopefully in 2.3). Apparently the instant save was not such a good idea after all. > Are there any good ways of getting around this problem? Are there > ways of implementing dropdown menus instead of square checkboxes, or > having a longer delay when you cycle through access control options? A quick solution would be to make shift+click cycle the other way. A faster solution that doesn't require any changes would be to edit rights using the object editor instead of the rich interface. Rights are normal XWiki objects like any others. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
