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Feature Request: User Groups
Hello!
This is a repeat of a suggestion I made a couple of months ago--with some additional background.
On our school wiki, there are certain pages which I would like teachers to be able to edit, but not students.
I can use custom page security settings to set this up, but it rapidly becomes very cumbersome. With 30 staff members, that's a lot of clicking to set up each page. And when a new staff member arrives or a staff member leaves the school, I have to track down *all* previous custom security pages to make the updates.
I could create a folder for "teacher but not student"-editable pages and put them all in there, but that would require a site-wide reorganization of pages which are currently spread across many folders. It would make the site organization less transparent and intuitive.
It seems to me that a very flexible, convenient way to address these situations would be to allow for the creation of "usergroups". I could then create a "staff" usergroup (which would be relatively easy to keep up-to-date) and then assign the group, and specify its access level, to pages with custom security.
I think that this would be an extremely useful feature for pbwiki to implement.
Thanks,
Steven
This is a repeat of a suggestion I made a couple of months ago--with some additional background.
On our school wiki, there are certain pages which I would like teachers to be able to edit, but not students.
I can use custom page security settings to set this up, but it rapidly becomes very cumbersome. With 30 staff members, that's a lot of clicking to set up each page. And when a new staff member arrives or a staff member leaves the school, I have to track down *all* previous custom security pages to make the updates.
I could create a folder for "teacher but not student"-editable pages and put them all in there, but that would require a site-wide reorganization of pages which are currently spread across many folders. It would make the site organization less transparent and intuitive.
It seems to me that a very flexible, convenient way to address these situations would be to allow for the creation of "usergroups". I could then create a "staff" usergroup (which would be relatively easy to keep up-to-date) and then assign the group, and specify its access level, to pages with custom security.
I think that this would be an extremely useful feature for pbwiki to implement.
Thanks,
Steven
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Inappropriate?Hi Steven
Thank you for the suggestion. This is often requested and we do listen. I've added your request to the already long list under User Groups.
Many of our current features started out as a request such as this one. It's very likely that this one will eventually become a feature.
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Inappropriate?I think to be able to form groups is a very important feature for a tool like pbwiki if it hopes to prove effective in large projects that span many years. Such projects are common, for example, in education. I do hope that it is implemented soon.
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