Reading and Commenting on Wikis

You can allow all or specific users to read and comment on Wiki documents. Access control is done through roles with their permissions, which are granted to users for workspaces.

A typical use case for a Wiki is that there are few authors and many readers. In order to make Wiki documents accessible to everyone, including users who do not have a user account in the system, you should consider the following:

• There must be a user named “guest”

• You need to activate “Automatically sign in as guest” in system administration.

• You need to define a role with the permission “read any”.

• You limit the item types accessible via this role to those used in the Wiki (e.g. document folder, document, document section). Otherwise, the “guest” user could see all items in this workspace, not just Wiki documents.

• You need to assign this role to the “guest” user for the workspaces that contain the publicly accessible Wikis.

Users known to the system can comment on entire documents or specific document sections via the context menu on the respective node in the left navigation tree.