[pmwiki-users] recognizing read protection

Sandy sandy at onebit.ca
Thu Jun 7 20:01:04 CDT 2007


Tegan Dowling wrote:
> I can't speak for Laszlo for sure -- but I know what he asked for 
> resembles what I want:  does this page have a read-attribute set?
> 
> Because if this page does not have a read attribute set (not on the 
> page's ?action=attr nor inherited from the group's 
> GroupAttributes?action=attr), then I want to know that at a glance, when 
> I'm on the page as an admin.
> 
> Certainly, most of what I want to protect, I'll protect by placing in a 
> read-protected area.  But sometimes I'll want to read-protect a page 
> within an unprotected group. OR sometimes I may unprotect 
> (read-attribute = nopass) a page within a read-protected group, and it 
> would be good for me, as an admin, to see something right on the page 
> that could alert me to the fact that I'm looking at / working on such a 
> page.
> 
> I've lived without this, and I can continue to do so, but Laszlo has 
> asked if there's any kind of condition that can be inquired about from 
> within a page to determine it's read-protection-status.  I'd use it if I 
> knew about it.  Is there such a thing?
> 
> 

Is there a variable that can be displayed in the sidebar, and surrounded 
by (:if:) to only show if you've admin privileges?

Sandy




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