Dmitry,

The big issue for me right now is understanding the capabilities for
architect exactly what you describe.  You've sent me down the right
path I think.

Thanks,

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Haru <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Matt,
>
> Something similar I have in one of the projects (besides LDAP yet).
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> My solution was as following:
>
> - XEM
> - You logically spread your information to the following structure: Main Wiki 
> -> Workspaces (or sub-wikis) -> Spaces
> - All Users are Global Users
> - Each sub-wiki has its own policy access rights based on groups.
>
>  In multi-project it's essential to plan good structure and acces rights 
> policy. It took us nearly a month to describe desired logic and access rights 
> policies for all projects. :-))))
> In my case there are: main wiki and 30+ subwikis, 80+ users for now. All of 
> them are private, no registration available. So, It's better understand 
> workflow logic and customize data structure accordingly. Most probably it 
> won't be as simple as you described it: only three departments' -workspaces.
>
> If you need completely paranoic privacy for some projects, better use 
> separate server, separate XWiki instance to keep secrets in. :-))
>
> As for links: wiki-wiki. If you have ONE wiki engine - it's quite easy: 
> wiki:Space.PageName.
>  Bad news:
> - there is no WYSIWYG interface to manage this, that makes it a bit more 
> complicated for non-advanced users.
> - Wiki-wiki links are not updated on page rename. See 
> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8346
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Dmitry
>
>
> Птн 30 Ноя 2012 11:59:25 от Flatfender <[email protected]>:
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>>Ok, thank you for that, the subspace thing is good to know. How I
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> would set this up is now starting to puzzle me.
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> So let's say I have 3 departments
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> Engineering
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> Hardware
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> Software
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> All three will collaborate on the same projects and may need access to
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> the same wiki content, but all may also want private pages that are
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> department specific.  So I guess if I didn't a separate wiki
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> department, they could use interwiki links to reference project pages.
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>  This would probably necessitate some people from each department
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> being in the other departments wiki group.  But then if they created a
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> private namespace, the people from the other department could see it.
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> I could combat this by creating two wikigroups for each department,
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> like wiki_engineering_public, and wiki_engineering_private.  Then only
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> departmental members would be in the private group and namespaces
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> could be in the private group to protect.
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> Or I guess everything is public, and then group perms on the namespace
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> to protect?
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> The problem is that we're a pretty small company 250 people and most
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> of the people are cross department/project functional.
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> I'll look more at the perms side of things.
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> Thank you.
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> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Thomas Mortagne
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> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Flatfender <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> All,
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>>> I'm thinking of deploying xwiki either community or commercial.  I've
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>>> looked through the docs, and searched the forum as well.
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>>> Here is my question. Can I create groups in AD/LDAP and tie them to
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>>> Namespaces to get protected wiki's by department?
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>>> We have some departments that are ok with an Open wiki, but others
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>>> like accounting want restricted access.  I'd like to manage this at
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>>> the AD/LDAP group level instead of the xwiki application level, is
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>>> that possible?
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>>> Is namespaces the right way to go to achieve departmental wiki's or
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>>> would I have to look at multiple wiki's in a wiki farm?
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>> You can link LDAP groups to XWiki groups and then you can setup your rights
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>> on XWiki based on theses groups like restricting the access to a
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>> space/wikis only to a specific XWiki group. This is usually the way we work
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>> with LDAP.
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>> The main difference between spaces and wikis is that, since XWiki does not
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>> support subspaces, all the pages will be at the same level for a
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>> department. Appart from this it depends how different you want your
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>> spaces/wikis to be or if you want to have different domain name for each
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>> department like admin.myhost.com etc. Note that you can apply completely
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>> different skins at space level.
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>>> Thanks,
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>>>
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>>> Matt P.
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