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Users and Editors
Can we do these things in LinksSQL?

1. Give users editing permissions to specified categories, ie: the right to add, delete and modify links within their category or categories only.
2. Have more than one 'editor' in a category.
3. Track editor actions, so we can work out what they have done (and if necessary, reverse it).

We want to have something a bit like the Open Directory editors system, where editors are trusted within their own categories and can gradually expand their interests upwards and outwards.


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1. Yes
2. I don't think so.
3. Not out-of-box (you'd have to add in logging codes/plugin)

Regards,

Eliot Lee Wink
http://anthrotech.com/
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Hi,

1. Yes.
2. Yes, you can specify as many editors as you like per category.
3. No, we don't currently have logging of editor actions, but is something we are looking at implementing in a future version.

Cheers,

Alex

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Thanks for all these helpful answers.

I suppose if we can't track editor activity, the next best thing is to ensure a regular backup cycle -- presumably standard MySQL dumps. Is anyone doing this? Got any tips?

Has anyone actually felt it necessary to monitor their editors? We don't anticipate any problems -- we are just trying to think the whole thing through before we get started.



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If you feel you have to monitor your editors, you should ask yourself whether they should be editors in the first place......just something to consider IMO.

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Uh...there is already a backup feature in the BUILD script.

Regards,

Eliot Lee Wink
http://anthrotech.com/
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>> If you feel you have to monitor your editors ...
Actually, we have no experience to draw on. We supposed we would need transparent criteria for initial approval and subsequent acceptance, balanced by transparent editor activity. But if monitoring is not possible, then we modify the criteria. Minor issue, no big deal.

>> there is already a backup feature in the BUILD script.
So there is. Brilliant. And if we just used 'Build Changed', we could (presumably) save a series of differential backups in MySQL dump format.