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). > > 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]>: >> >> >> > > >> > > > >>Ok, thank you for that, the subspace thing is good to know. How I >> > would set this up is now starting to puzzle me. >> > >> > So let's say I have 3 departments >> > >> > Engineering >> > Hardware >> > Software >> > >> > All three will collaborate on the same projects and may need access to >> > the same wiki content, but all may also want private pages that are >> > department specific. So I guess if I didn't a separate wiki >> > department, they could use interwiki links to reference project pages. >> > This would probably necessitate some people from each department >> > being in the other departments wiki group. But then if they created a >> > private namespace, the people from the other department could see it. >> > I could combat this by creating two wikigroups for each department, >> > like wiki_engineering_public, and wiki_engineering_private. Then only >> > departmental members would be in the private group and namespaces >> > could be in the private group to protect. >> > >> > Or I guess everything is public, and then group perms on the namespace >> > to protect? >> > >> > The problem is that we're a pretty small company 250 people and most >> > of the people are cross department/project functional. >> > >> > I'll look more at the perms side of things. >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Thomas Mortagne >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Flatfender <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> All, >> >>> >> >>> I'm thinking of deploying xwiki either community or commercial. I've >> >>> looked through the docs, and searched the forum as well. >> >>> >> >>> Here is my question. Can I create groups in AD/LDAP and tie them to >> >>> Namespaces to get protected wiki's by department? >> >>> >> >>> We have some departments that are ok with an Open wiki, but others >> >>> like accounting want restricted access. I'd like to manage this at >> >>> the AD/LDAP group level instead of the xwiki application level, is >> >>> that possible? >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Is namespaces the right way to go to achieve departmental wiki's or >> >>> would I have to look at multiple wiki's in a wiki farm? >> >>> >> >> >> >> You can link LDAP groups to XWiki groups and then you can setup your rights >> >> on XWiki based on theses groups like restricting the access to a >> >> space/wikis only to a specific XWiki group. This is usually the way we work >> >> with LDAP. >> >> >> >> The main difference between spaces and wikis is that, since XWiki does not >> >> support subspaces, all the pages will be at the same level for a >> >> department. Appart from this it depends how different you want your >> >> spaces/wikis to be or if you want to have different domain name for each >> >> department like admin.myhost.com etc. Note that you can apply completely >> >> different skins at space level. >> >> >> >> >> >>> >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> >> >>> Matt P. >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> users mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Thomas Mortagne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> users mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> >>[email protected] >> >>http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > > > > > >> > > > Kind regards, > > Dmitry > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
