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Version 76.2 by Vincent Massol on 2008/03/06
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Rights Management

Information

The images and documentation below features the new Rights Management UI available since XWiki Enterprise 1.1.2 and XWiki Enterprise 1.2M2 and beyond.

XWiki allows you to control all access permissions at a fine grained level. There are different levels of control and these rights are cumulative. The rights for a page override the rights for a space which override the rights for a wiki.

Thanks to the three levels of control offered by XWiki, it becomes quite easy to manage places where people are allowed to read, write and comment - or not allowed to go. You can create groups of users in order to manage the rights of a category of people more easily. For instance, say you have managers and staff in the marketing and IT department: you can create a group for the staff on each department and another for managers (4 in all), and a space for every category. Then you can choose to let marketing staff access the marketing space only but let marketing managers have access to the IT space at the staff level (but not IT manager level), and so on...

Warning

You'll need to have admin rights if you want to modify user rights.

Rights at the wiki level

Click on the "Administration" button of your wiki. On the new skin it's located in the top right corner of the screen. Then select the "Global Rights" tab as shown on the following filename

globalrights.jpg

Here's how you can change permissions:

  • Select the Users or Groups for which you want to set a permission.
    • There are some default users to know about:
      • Unregistered Users: represents the anonymous user (i.e. a user not logged in)
      • XWiki.XWikiAllGroup: represents all groups
      • XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup: represents all users with admin privileges
  • Click once in a checkbox to allow a right, twice to deny it and three times to clear the right (delete the entry). As a result, rights entries are saved automatically, using the Ajax technology.

Rights at the space level

Click on the "Administration" button of your wiki. On the new skin it's located in the top right corner of the screen. Then select the "Space Rights" tab. Then select the space for which to modify the rights. For example:

spacerights.jpg

Then use exactly the same steps as the one use for changing global rights.

Rights at the page level

Simply navigate to the page for which you wish to change the permissions, Edit the page and then click on the Page Access Rights tab.

documentrights.jpg

Add, remove, edit users and groups "on the fly"

Information

All user management features are described in the User Management Guide.

The new interface provides easy management of the groups and users. They are displayed in a dynamically loaded table, thus requesting less time to load than if all the users and groups would have been loaded all at once. Click on the small icons next to each user and group in the table to edit or remove them. You can filter the users and groups name as you type, using the input filters provided by the interface.

groups.jpg

When editing a group, you can add new members (users, subgroups) by directly typing their name or using the ajax suggest that is incorporated.

editgroup.jpg

You can also register new users and groups using the "Add New Group" or "Add New User" buttons at the bottom of the page.

createnewgroup.jpg

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