I have some pages which I want to restrict access to specific users, i.e, I want user A and user B only to view this page. How can this be done? Do I need additional extensions or it can be done through LocalSettings.php for example?
You could try this extension: Extension:AccessControl. I've not deployed it to my wiki sites, but a quick read of the pages suggests it might be what you're looking for.
Note though that as Tgr covered in the comments above, Mediawiki is not intended to operate like this, so the extension could be fundamentally flawed in its implementation. Practise due diligence if you try to deploy any 3rd party extensions. Alternatively, look into alternative CMSs that handle access control as a core feature.
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The question is pretty clear I think, but I will elaborate on why I'm asking it.
I created a little blog engine based on OneNote. Basically, the blog configuration asks for an access to OneNote. Then the user chooses a section under which the blog posts are stored.
There is a cron script that will use all these informations to automatically get new pages, fetch the medias and cache every, and finally display the posts.
I chose OneNote because I own three Windows 8 computers and a Windows Phone, so OneNote was an easy choice, as I didn't want to get an other application to manage my blog.
There is still a lot to do (as always with softwares...), but I want to make this more or less an open source project, so that other people can install it on their websites and link it directely to OneNote.
The only "big" obstacle for this now is that authentication in the OneNote API needs to register the application on the Live Connect, and specify a redirect domain. So every user wishing to use this blog engine on their server will have to register their own application... That will look complicated just for a blog, especially if you're not tech-savvy.
Is there a way to "skip" or work around this requirement, even if it requires the user to make the section public (as it is for a blog, this doesn't seem too much to ask) ?
Thank you in advance,
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Sounds like an awesome project! When you get it released be sure to let us know at #OneNoteDev.
Unfortunately, at this time there's no way to circumvent the requirement for Live Connect OAuth configuration. You could offer a hosted variant so only you need to worry about the LiveID configuration.
I am looking for a way to integrate my app in the Sharepicker. I already found the regarding example here and the Manifest documentation.
My Problem is, that I do not want to receive Pictures, but links or other things. Is there any place (that I did not find) where the possible extensions are listed?
No. You can only act as a share provider for pictures. For everything else, you can give developers an URI scheme that they can associate with your app, therefore being able to call it later on if they decide to share something with you. This, however, will not be a system-wide sharing extension.
I have an app with a support form that a customer can use to submit new issues. One of the things that's been requested is to search their public wiki and automatically create suggestions based upon it (very similar to what SO does). Since the page in question is outside of MediaWiki itself, I'm unsure about how to move forward.
My question is twofold:
Is there an out of the box extension to do this sort of thing?
If not, how would you recommend I go about doing it? I've never written a MediaWiki extension, but for the experienced among you, what approach would you take?
I don't know if something like that already exists. But if I had to do it from scratch, I would definitely go on using the mediawiki API. Example here:
Show a list of 10 pages that contain the word MYSEARCHTEXTGOESHERE
http://mywiki.org/wiki/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=MYSEARCHTEXTGOESHERE&srprop=timestamp
It wouldn't be an extension in the wiki, but rather a GET call to the wiki server from your app.
I have created a website powered by MediaWiki that offers documentation on the interface for a web application.
The URL for my web application may change. However, many articles on this MediaWiki site link to the application.
I would like to create a global constant somewhere called say "WEB_APP_URL" that I may change at any time, and that editors of the wiki can use to link to the application.
That way, I won't have to do a massive find and replace when my application URL changes.
Is this possible? I am working in a LAMP environment. Thank you.
I think the simplest way is to create a template. That is, you can create a page called Template:web-app URL with this wiki-text:
http://this.is/the/URL/of/the/web.app
and then editors can write things like:
The application is located at {{web-app URL}}.
or:
[{{web-app URL}} David Faux's application]
and the URL will automatically get dropped in.
(That's not the only way — you can get similar effects through internal configurations and hooks — but I think the template-based approach is the simplest.)
This question might not belong here, and since this is related to HTML and reporting, I thought I could ask nonetheless.
I'm currently working to list all of the user identities in Designer for Identity Manager, by Novell.
I used the User Application connector and built the required queries. I also created a Provisioning and Request Definition with the necessary fields.
I can populate an HTML table with the results of the selected query, and get the user information from the Vault. Aside, I could use the organization's logo on the top-left-hand corner, the project name on the top-right with the report title just below on the right-hand side.
My concern is to set the organization's logo on the report.
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How can I define this image logo as an image resource into NIM so that I can use it in my HTML identity report?
Shall it suffice to include the path of the image into the HTML document? If so, how shall I set this image path? I don't know much about HTML.
EDIT #1
I know that NIM uses Tomcat as Web Server to handle the responses. Perhaps moving the image in its directory should suffice?
If so, how can I find out what is this path where I can put the image, so that it is considered part of the Website resource?
Father Ramon, the patronizing saint of IDM, responded in this thread in the Support Forums.
It is the path to where to leave the file that is incredibly non-obvious. He says the path is:
/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib/dirxml/rules/manualtask/mt_files or
/usr/lib/dirxml/rules/manualtask/mt_files (depending on whether you are
using eDir 8.7.x or 8.8.x. IDM will automatically find it there and
attach when referenced.
But I see in another thread that some people had issues getting this to work.
You may find the Support Forums (I linked the IDM forum specifically) helpful. A lot of people monitor those on this topic.
Also, you may find Novell Cool Solutions helpful for user contributed content. (I write as geoffc there).
In the IDM space, I have written a large number of articles that may help you in general, that are list on my Wiki Page.
If all that fails, the User Application Workflow engine uses a different email engine that may be more flexible. (Thus you could call a Start Workflow for a workflow with just a single Email action in it).
Additionally in IDM 4 there is library, lib-AJC included, full of ECMA functions (Which would work perfectly well in IDM 3.6 and 3.5) that include a set of emailing functions. If you have a driver configuration from IDM 3.6.1 odds are good you will have a lib-AJC in your tree already.