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Version 87.4 by Silvia Macovei on 2009/09/25

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2 *Contents*
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Vincent Massol 1.20 6 1 Rights Management
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Silvia Macovei 87.4 8 #info("The images and documentation below feature the new Rights Management UI available since XWiki Enterprise 1.1.2 and XWiki Enterprise 1.2M2 and beyond.")
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Vincent Massol 71.1 10 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.
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Silvia Macovei 87.4 12 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...
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JeromeVelociter 87.3 14 #warning("You'll need to have the admin right granted in order to modify permissions for other users and groups.")
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Vincent Massol 1.1 16 1.1 Rights at the wiki level
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Silvia Macovei 87.4 18 Click on your wiki "Administration" button. On the new skin it's located in the top right corner of the screen. Then click on the "Global Rights" icon as shown in the following image:
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EvelinaSlatineanu 45.1 20 {image:globalrights.jpg}
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22 Here's how you can change permissions:
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EvelinaSlatineanu 20.1 24 * Select the Users or Groups for which you want to set a permission.
Vincent Massol 1.4 25 ** There are some default users to know about:
EvelinaSlatineanu 20.1 26 *** Unregistered Users: represents the anonymous user (i.e. a user not logged in)
Vincent Massol 1.4 27 *** XWiki.XWikiAllGroup: represents all groups
28 *** XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup: represents all users with admin privileges
EvelinaSlatineanu 22.1 29 * 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.
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Vincent Massol 1.1 31 1.1 Rights at the space level
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Silvia Macovei 87.4 33 There are 2 solutions to edit rights at the space level :
34 1. When you are in the wiki administration, use the select to go to the administration of one of the existing spaces in your wiki.
Jean-Vincent Drean 87.1 35 1. Put your mouse over the "Administration" button at the top right corner of any page and click on "Administrate space : CurrentSpace".
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Jean-Vincent Drean 87.1 37 Then click on the "Rights" icon. You will see the following screen :
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EvelinaSlatineanu 45.1 39 {image:spacerights.jpg}
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Silvia Macovei 87.4 41 Then use exactly the same steps as the ones used for changing global rights.
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Vincent Massol 1.1 43 1.1 Rights at the page level
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Vincent Massol 1.25 45 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.
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Jean-Vincent Drean 87.1 47 {image:pagerights.jpg}
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