[geeklog-users] Setting up individual control over topics

[stephen white]

I'm setting up Geeklog for use within a University department. I would 
like to create multiple sections, one for each subject, then give the 
lecturers control over their own sections.

Let's say I have "CompSci 101", "CompSci 102", "CompSci 103" as 
sections... The first problem I noticed was that the Administrator 
cannot assign ownership of topics... I have to give the lecturer Topic 
Admin privs, create the board, then remove the Topic Admin priv in 
order to set the ownership.

The next problem I noticed was that when reviewing story submissions, 
lecturers can see queued stories for other sections, regardless of 
whether they can see those sections in the topic list or not. They 
can't post a story directly to the topic even if they have write access.

If I give them story.submit access, then they can directly submit 
stories to any section whereas the effect I wanted was to have 
submission queue for any section they don't own.

Since there's nothing else that comes close (after 3 months of 
downloading and trying out various weblog/cms programs), I'm still 
intending to go ahead with Geeklog. I'll just have to give the 
lecturers more access than I wanted, and tell them to be careful.

It appears that Geeklog isn't really set up for topic level control of 
users... I suspect the security model is still a work in progress? If 
so, perhaps I can be of help here?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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   steve at cs.adelaide.edu.au