FreshwaterLife Groups and Permissions -
Topic Management
FreshwaterLife is an open participatory system, but there
are circumstances in which restrictions can be put in place
to control the various types of access to specific topics.
The facility to create groups of members, and for topic
editors to set permission levels for their respective topics,
provides topic editors with effective management tools to
better enable them to control the development of their topic(s).
Topic Permissions
The Topic Editor can select and set various levels of
permission for access to their topic. Default permissions
are:
Action on Topic |
Who can carry out this action |
| Browse |
public (all FreshwaterLife users) |
| Edit |
editor (topic editor) |
| Suggest new subtopics |
members (registered members of FreshwaterLife) |
| Suggest new knowledge |
members (registered members of FreshwaterLife) |
| Suggest new related or linked topics |
members (registered members of FreshwaterLife)
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If you do not want to alter any of the default permissions,
then you do not need to touch the bottom half of the edit
topic form.
FreshwaterLife Groups
The Chief Editor can create, edit and delete member groups
in FreshwaterLife. Once a group has been set up, at the
behest of a topic editor, member names can be added to
that group. This will then enable a specific topic editor
to restrict certain types of access to members of a specific
group. Please contact the Chief Editor
if you would like to make changes or set up new groups
in FreshwaterLife.
Setting Topic Permissions
This process is best described using an example:
Example
A specialist organisation, like FBA– the Freshwater Biological
Association - has set up a Virtual Office topic in FreshwaterLife.
Whilst the FBA topic editor is happy for all users of
FreshwaterLife to browse the information in their Virtual
Office, she wants only FBA members to be able to suggest
new items of knowledge, new subtopics, and new linkages.
At the request of the FBA Virtual Office topic editor,
the Chief Editor has set up a FreshwaterLife member group
called FBA Members. When a member of FBA joins FreshwaterLife,
their name is added to the FBA Member group.
The FBA Virtual Office topic editor has set the required
permission levels for each topic within the FBA Virtual
Office, using the Edit Topic form.
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