Permissions: Add but not edit

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I have a page (with childpages) where I want users to be able to create new pages but not edit existing pages.
Now obviously this doesn’t work because to create a page they need to be able to ‘edit’ a new page (from my understanding).

Is this possible at all in current versions of xwiki?

Using version 9.9

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There is nothing built in to support you use case. The general idea is that if you want a page to have different right than its parent this page much have its own rights setup.

A workaround would be to make sure all the new pages contains right configuration that only allow a specific group (like the Admin group for example) to edit those pages.
It all depend how those pages are created:

  • it’s page generated by some application: the easiest would be to put a XWiki.XWikiRights object in some page template which is used when created the new page
  • it’s standard wiki pages: you could write a listener (http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Observation+Module+Local) which automatically add the XWiki.XWikiRights object to each new page (org.xwiki.bridge.event.DocumentCreatedEvent event)
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Thank you very much!

My usecase is a Application created with Apps Within Minutes and I was able to add the XWiki.XWikiRights object to the template, which did exactly what I wanted :slight_smile:

Just for reference, my XWiki.XWikiRights looks like this:

  • Group: XWiki.XWikiAllGroup
  • Scope: edit
  • User: none
  • Allow/Deny: Deny

This denies editing the created pages to all users that are not an admin

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Indeed that what the easiest use case and the right way to deal with it :slight_smile:

Just a details: I usually try to avoid manipulating Deny right (old xwikier reflexes) so instead I would have given edit right to admin group but that works too.