[Zope] Simpleton requests help - what's this mapping malarkey ?:)
chas
panda@skinnyhippo.com
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 05:41:34 +0800
I'm feeling kind of dumb here - perhaps I'm getting distracted by
the terminology used but what's this "mapping" of permissions ?
I've checked the ZCMG but that only deals with users/roles/permissions
which is fairly straight-forward and intuitive. Were these permission
mappings added in Zope 2.0 or is documentation hiding somewhere ?
eg. Ok, so let's look at a typical "define permissions" page :
- Access contents information <disabled>
- Change DTML Methods <disabled>
- Change permissions <disabled>
- Change proxy roles <disabled>
- Delete objects <disabled>
- FTP access <disabled>
- Manage properties <disabled>
- View <view>
- View management screens <disabled>
OK, so "view management screens" is now disable and nobody can
view them. Fair enough. But say I want to enable them, why
would I want to map "view management screens" to anything
other than, er, "view management screens" ? And where is the
correlation between this action and a user's identity ?
Another example: anonymous users call this dtml-method; this
method then changes the properties of the zclass. So, I go to
the pulldown menu opposite "manage properties" and roger me
relentlessly if "manage properties" doesn't just look like
the appropriate choice ! The mind boggles - I'm going nuts.
What am I supposed to do with this ?
As I said, roles/users/permissions make sense but these make
as much sense as a bucketful of number 2's.
chas