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The easiest way is to install the Edit-This-Page package.
Follow the instructions within Edit This Page (the link will only work after Edit This Page is installed).
Go to /admin/permissions and grant Create to Registered Users
Suppose you install a new site and install Weblogger, and you want all visitors to see weblogger automatically.
Change the parameter IndexRedirectUrl to be the URI of the desired application. For a default weblogger installation, this would be weblogger/
Every page within an OpenACS site is part of a subsite More information). The home page of the entire site is the front page is a special, default instance of a subsite, served from /var/lib/aolserver/. If an index page is not found there, the default index page for all subsites is used. To customize the code on the front page, copy the default index page from the Subsite package to the Main site and edit it:$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/www
Edit the new index.adp to change the text; you shouldn't need to edit index.tcl unless you are adding new functionality.
Almost all pages on an OpenACS site use ACS Templating, and so their appearance is driven by a layer of different files. Let's examine how this works:
Blank-master does HTML housekeeping and provides a framework for special sitewide navigation "meta" elements such as Translator widgets and Admin widgets.
Figure 4.1. Site Templates
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set can_register_p [events::security::can_register_for_event_p -event_id $event_id]
We need to know what that procedure does, so go to /api-doc, paste events::security::can_register_for_event_p into the ACS Tcl API Search box, and click Feeling Lucky. The next pages shows the proc, and we click "show source" to see more information. The body of the proc is simply
return [permission::permission_p -party_id $user_id -object_id $event_id -privilege write]-
This means that a given user must have the write privilege on the event in order to register. Let's assume that the privilege inherit, so that if a user has the write privilege on the whole package, they will have the write privilege on the event.
+This means that a given user must have the write privilege on the event in order to register. Let's assume that the privileges inherit, so that if a user has the write privilege on the whole package, they will have the write privilege on the event.
Setting Permissions. @@ -100,14 +100,14 @@
Click "Grant Permission"
Grant the write permission to Registered Users.
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