The [create] scripts have been slightly updated. Gone are the confusing options for recommending different posting and home page values (which didn't really work as you might imagine anyway.)
Now you either choose to make the new page like an existing page (cloning), or you choose the template, page style, and public/private.
If you are cloning a page the new page will have the identical permanent page text entries as the source page (if the page you are using as a template for the new page has some permanent text on the left, then the new page will have that same text - useful if you have certain links you want on all your pages.)
And also, again when cloning, the subscriptions of all users will be the same for the new page as for the source page - *except* for position on each users home page. So, if you create a new page through cloning an old one, all the new subscriptions will be identical for each user *except* home page position will always equal 0 (the new page won't be on any users home page.)
Cloning is especially useful if you have private pages (and doubly so if your private pages have a large group of people with permission to post.) You could just make a private page (without cloning,) but then you'd have to add each poster in [admin] - one at a time! By cloning a page that already has the group of posters you want you get the correct permissions in one step.
This sort of worked before, except that the new page would mimic the source page in terms of appearing on people's home page. I'm trying to make it a rule that no one can add a page to an existing users home page. Only the user themselves can modify the pages on their home page. Any other behavior is now considered a bug.
If none of this makes sense, don't worry. [create] is now actually easier to use, and should work more intuitively. So go ahead and [create] new pages to your hearts content. If you try to [create] a page where you do not have permission the system will let you know.
Hey Jim. thanks for all this. I'm having a problem - I went to give a new person access to a private page (sallymckay/talk) and once I'd hit update I no longer had [admin] or [editpage] links. I must've un-empowered myself by accident. Can you help?
Yeah, you gave ownership of the page to someone else. I switched it back to you.
Possibly there is a bug, or possibly you put the new posters name in the box labeled 'name of new page owner' on the [admin] page (instead of in the box labeled 'name of new poster'.) That would have done it.
Each page has only one owner who can look in [admin] and [editpage].
Your friend was successfully added, so it should be all set now. You might want to show her how to put it on her front page.
i'm an idiot. thank you.
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Now you either choose to make the new page like an existing page (cloning), or you choose the template, page style, and public/private.
If you are cloning a page the new page will have the identical permanent page text entries as the source page (if the page you are using as a template for the new page has some permanent text on the left, then the new page will have that same text - useful if you have certain links you want on all your pages.)
And also, again when cloning, the subscriptions of all users will be the same for the new page as for the source page - *except* for position on each users home page. So, if you create a new page through cloning an old one, all the new subscriptions will be identical for each user *except* home page position will always equal 0 (the new page won't be on any users home page.)
Cloning is especially useful if you have private pages (and doubly so if your private pages have a large group of people with permission to post.) You could just make a private page (without cloning,) but then you'd have to add each poster in [admin] - one at a time! By cloning a page that already has the group of posters you want you get the correct permissions in one step.
This sort of worked before, except that the new page would mimic the source page in terms of appearing on people's home page. I'm trying to make it a rule that no one can add a page to an existing users home page. Only the user themselves can modify the pages on their home page. Any other behavior is now considered a bug.
If none of this makes sense, don't worry. [create] is now actually easier to use, and should work more intuitively. So go ahead and [create] new pages to your hearts content. If you try to [create] a page where you do not have permission the system will let you know.
- jim 2-23-2004 9:28 pm
Hey Jim. thanks for all this. I'm having a problem - I went to give a new person access to a private page (sallymckay/talk) and once I'd hit update I no longer had [admin] or [editpage] links. I must've un-empowered myself by accident. Can you help?
- sally mckay 2-23-2004 11:46 pm [add a comment]
Yeah, you gave ownership of the page to someone else. I switched it back to you.
Possibly there is a bug, or possibly you put the new posters name in the box labeled 'name of new page owner' on the [admin] page (instead of in the box labeled 'name of new poster'.) That would have done it.
Each page has only one owner who can look in [admin] and [editpage].
Your friend was successfully added, so it should be all set now. You might want to show her how to put it on her front page.
- jim 2-24-2004 12:00 am [add a comment]
i'm an idiot. thank you.
- sally mckay 2-24-2004 12:05 am [add a comment]