Tiddlywiki and multi-user access

[tduser]

Hello,

Is there a functionality in TW for multi-user access?
I would like different users to have access to different tiddlers.

I have been searching docs and this group posts, but I have not found anything useful.

[Jed Carty]

There aren't any fully working solutions yet. If you want different people to be able to access different tiddlers than you may be able to use the node version and have each person use their own wiki and use the inculdeWikis part of the tiddlywiki.info files to select which tiddlers each person sees. But I am not aware of any complete working solution to this yet so you would have to make the system yourself.

[TonyM]

Tduser,

You may benifit from explaining a little deeper what you are after. I expect your concern is more about the tiddlers they share, there are ways to encrypt individual tiddlers and without wanting to sound dismissive users can have there own tiddlywikis. The single file wiki by its nature may break some multiuser models unless the use is readonly. The folder or nodejs implementation could answer some multiuser needs.

There are a number of discussions that relate to this question that may boost multiuser use but the sharability and bundling or drag and drop of tiddlers can go along way.

Personaly I am Building a content distribution process to manage common tiddlers between many wikis including allowing specific tiddlers to be owned by specific wikis.

I have also raised the idea of a messaging subsystem to move tiddlers,,and there are those whos development skills are greater than mine also proposing similer ideas.

Give us a better idea of your needs.

Tony

[tduser]

On Monday, 30 October 2017 13:06:17 UTC+1, TonyM wrote:

Tduser,

You may benifit from explaining a little deeper what you are after. 

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Tony

To be clear I installed TW with node.

Simply put, I'm trying to systematize our business. And I chose TW as a place to store all of our systems.
I'd like them to be accessible to everyone on our local network, that's why I chose a wiki solution.

So, I have main categories of systems, like "Management", "Finance", "Lead Generation", "Marketing", etc.
Those categories then contain it's appropriate systems.
Now, I wouldn't like, let's say a sales clerk, to have access to Marketing or Finance systems/tiddlers.
Likewise a sales rep doesn't need access to Management or Finance systems/tiddlers.

I haven't checked TW for multi-user functionality, before I installed it.
I'd like to keep it, because I like the "feel" of it.
In worst case scenario I can simply export tiddlers to PDFs and categorize it accordingly.
But it may be a little hassle if there are several dozen of them.

[TonyM]

Tduser,

That is a lot clearer. I will assume for now people want to see data, not edit or produce it.

Others are likely to provide more ideas but to summarise.

The Question now is what method you use to divide the content along security lines.
Then you need to ask yourself, are you happy with security by obscurity, or 100% secure is required?

One one hand
To put it simply tiddlywiki does not have much to facilitate separating content within a TiddlyWiki, between users, in some ways this is the opposite to what tiddlywiki is about. Highly interconnected, and self referential (why it is so good for a knowledge base).

On the Other hand
Copy, clone or create another tiddlywiki and you can totally divide the content on security lines, whilst benefiting from easy transfer, linking and more between tiddlywikis. As seperate files, they can be password protected, use encryption or simply exist in file-shares that control access.

You could even go further an create a central wiki with shared content, and have subwikis that access it, but do not share there content with the other wikis. There are projects and ideas in the group for multi-user wiki techniques.

Best of luck
Tony
There are many opportunities to achieve what you want here,