[geeklog-users] Setting up individual control over topics

[Norm Green]

create group CompSci 101 and make user part of group   make topic and
set so only CompSci 101 has right to see it


On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 01:03, stephen white wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
>    steve at cs.adelaide.edu.au
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