[pmwiki-users] Hierarchical groups link notation...

[The Editor]

On 1/31/07, Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:
> Dan:
>
> Not a lot of responses on this HG initiative, which surprises me...

Yep, surprizes me too for all the interest on this in the past...

> Although I can see that if the permission issue is not solved
> that could be a stone wall for moving forward. Our small
> team collaborative wiki is small enough where I can
> manage  to add permissions to new subgroups, but
> even  with our small team, if we allow users who have access
> to a particular group-hierarchy and then give them privileges
> to create new sub-groups, if those new subgroups do
> not get  the same permissions, we have a (obvious) problem...

Was able to solve the permissions issue last night.  Is working fine.

> I would have to limit new subgroup creation to admin...
> which would be "painful."

You can try it out by creating any subgroup in Test.  You
automatically get edit privileges, whether Test-Main-One or just Test.
 All in one attributes setting.  Pages that don't start with Test-*
are edit protected.  Kind of cool.

> At any rate. I'm cheering you on and praying for your
>  success as I will put everything you have  done  to work.
>
> I'm wanting to  merge a couple of fields on a farm into
> a single wiki and this HG solution is really the only solution
> for making such a merger work.
>
> Do the following PhP  functions  provide a solution for the pagelist of
> subgroups?
> Or are we still stuck with manual additions of subgroups  to some
> source data page?
>
> Thanks for all the time you are putting into this!

Hope it works well for you!  Let me know if you encounter any bugs.

Cheers,
Dan