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<font size="-1"><font face="Verdana">I am new to setting up a wiki
& have only limited programming experience (mostly in the DOS
world--batch files, rudimentary basic & pascal). I am finding some
of the documentation to be written for people who already know what
they're doing. So I have some basic questions and any help will be
greatly appreciated. <br>
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Background: I'm trying to set up 1 wiki (I hope to not have to use a
farm) with different sets of users accessing different groups, although
everyone will have access to Main & possibly others. I also want a
standard format for the pages (I'm using the 'dropdown' skin by the
way). For example I've created a sidebar with instructions on how to
edit pages. So here's the question. Right now I have groups Main,
AGroup, BGroup & CGroup. I've set default read & edit passwords
in config.php. I want AGroup users to have access to A & C groups,
but have a set of people who only have access to CGroup. So I set a
password in the GroupAttribute page. Once I did that, A people no
longer had access to C with their password & the sidebar
disappeared for C.<br>
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The Questions. <br>
1. Is there a way to create an array of passwords (or some other
mechanism) that work in C? First I tried typing in 2 passwords
separated by comma in the Attributes form, but that only created 1 long
password. I tried changing the passwdread= statement in
CGroup.GroupAttributes to =array(password1, password2) but that didn't
work either.<br>
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2. Is there a way to have the page structure (such as the menu &
sidebar) work on all groups created without having to replicate them
for each group? I expect new groups to be added as time goes on.<br>
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3. Will setting default passwords in config.php as well as the
passwords on various groups keep the wiki from being indexed by search
engine bots? The intention, obviously is to have this info be private.<br>
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4. I'm also confused about when/where variables work & when/where
directives work. For example, I tried using $Group.HomePage in my menu
so that I could use the same menu but have different group's pages
appear, but it didn't substitute. It thought I wanted a page called:
$Group.HomePage.<br>
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On a different subject:<br>
Is there a way to use both a heading & an ordered list at the same
time? Since both ! & # want to be in the leftmost position on the
line, the 2nd one gets treated as text.<br>
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