Removing option to create hidden pages from Page Information panel

[jgilmore]

Hi all!

We’re wondering if there is a way to remove the option to hide a page from the Page Information panel unless a user has admin rights and/or has the user type: Advanced?

Use case

We don’t want general users (with view/edit/delete rights) to have the option to hide a page. To my mind, even mentioning the concept of hidden pages to a general user might introduce unnecessary confusion given that most hidden pages are ‘under the hood’ / XWikiAdmin-level pages.

In the user profile preferences menu, we’ve removed the ‘display hidden pages’ preference from general users by adding a condition ($hasAdmin) so the option only displays to those with admin rights. Could we do something similar for the Page Information panel?

Thanks!

[mflorea]

Hi,

I see two options:

• you do it server-side, by overwriting informationinline.vm, see https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/xwiki-platform-web-templates/src/main/resources/templates/informationinline.vm#L127-L137
• or you do it client-side, hiding that field using CSS (with a CSS selector based on [data-property="hidden"]), of course, making sure this CSS is loaded only for non-advanced users.

Hope this helps,
Marius

[vmassol]

I wonder if this this not a legit use case we would like to have by default in XS. I’ve made a proposal at Only offer the ability to hide pages to advanced users

[jgilmore]

Thanks Marius and Vincent! The current solution and a path forward are both super helpful.