Permissions By Category per Group - unexpected performance
Hello all - please note I am making updates to this as I continue to debug / test items.
I realize there is a wealth of documentation on permissions - though I am having issues getting them to act as expected.
Side-note: the images in the permission documentation section are not loading for me (Safari)
Background:
I am trying to set up a series of secure categories in our tiki
Current version: 18.4svn (understand it is out of date, we will work on updating that)
Goal:
Multiple categories (about 100), multiple groups (about 30)
Each category should have access controlled by group
Three general sets of permissions: Write / Read (but not write) / No access
Example structure for the tiki:
See Imgur link at the bottom
Example categories are x-axis, groups are y-axis
Red = no access - should have no knowledge or visibility of objects in this category
Green = read + write access - should be able to browse all objects in this category
Orange = read only access - should be able to read but not edit objects in this category
Objects and features we want to use:
Wiki pages, spreadsheets, tags, file browsers
Issue:
I am setting permissions (wiki_view / wiki_edit / category_view) for a test user in a test category, however I am not able to see any objects in that category when I log into the test user account
Edit - 2019 09 16: I have determined that this was due to parent categories not have the correct "read" access permissions for a group. By setting a user to be able to see the parent category and edit the child category, the correct abilities are starting to appear.
New issue: I am seeing an issue where a user may click on "create wiki page" but no editable fields are available on that page - ergo a wiki page cannot actually be created.
Question: What permissions govern the ability to access the actual create wiki page capabilities for a category?
Request 1:
Any detailed guidance would be very much appreciated
Global permissions should be used only where necessary
Main goal is that access is governed primarily by a group's permissions in a given category
Request 2:
Is it possible to define a 'permission variable' to speed up the permission setting process for a large tiki like this? EG:
Read = this set of permissions
Write = this set of permissions
Set group permissions as Read / Write / None?
Reference:
Please see the following Imgur link for example access outline
I have also linked my first (seemingly failed) attempt at category permissions