[Imc-aotearoa-ed] Re: [imc-commwork] 'about us' extension for AIM

[toni --]

hi all,

summary:

    You can read HOWTO create and manage restricted EDIT access
    to topics in TWiki - which is done via GROUPS.
    
    Comparing versions (revisions) of a topic (page) and retriving older
    ones is explained too.

in solidarity,

toni
    

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On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, roving wrote:

> 1.) Work for a decision on whether we actually want to keep *some* of this
> stuff hard to find (like TWiki which could easily be abused)

i wonder what do you mean here? how can text in TWiki be abused?

* managing groups *

It is very easy to create GROUPS in TWiki, and then to restrict EDIT
feature of certain topics only to that group.

For example: http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ImcUkGroup
this is the group for imc-uk.
This page can be edited only by the members of that group:
http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Local/UkWebDocuments
and this is the bit that tells TWiki to do so:
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    * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = ImcUkGroup
    * Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME = ImcUkGroup
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To create a new group, read the TWiki documenation at:
http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiDocumentation#Users_and_Groups
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   1.  Create a new topic with A name that ends in Group, SomeGroup
   2. Define two variables:
          * Set GROUP = < list of users and groups >
          * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = < list of users and groups >

    * GROUP is a comma-separated list of users and of other groups:
          Set GROUP = Main.SomeUser, Main.OtherUser, Main.SomeOtherGroup
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you can use http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ImcUkGroup
as an example.

* DIFF option - comparing and retriving text versions *

and even then, if the text in TWiki gets changed by someone that shouldn't
have done it, you can always revert back to any of older version:
TWiki preservs all edited version of text.

This is done by clicking on "Diff" icon in the top right corner.
You will see different version of the text appearing one the top of each
other, with changes marked with arrows and colors.

part of text marked GREEN and " > > " is text added.
part of text marked RED   and " < < " is text removed.

you can acces each full version of the topic by clicking on number in
brackets, next to the topic name, named "r1.2" or some other number.

 "r"   - stands for revision. 

in short: all revisions are preserved, and you can access them all.

for example, have a look at:
http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/rdiff/TWiki/HelpTasksUsual

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