Limit Non-GM Editing

alipinsk
alipinsk

I just bought ascendant and am highly disappointed there is no option to limit access to editing pages. For me it defeats the purpose of having a forum section. Can this feature please be introduced? I understand that CSS can be edited to do this function but I am not comfortable enough to edit it. 

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  • cgregory
    cgregory
    Posts: 780

    The CSS to prevent editing of forums by non GMs is

    .icon-edit.edit-post-link {display: none;}

    .campaign-game-master .icon-edit.edit-post-link {display: inline-block;}

    The first line removes the editing link for everyone.

    The second line adds it back for GMs.

     

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  • UselessTriviaMan
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    Posts: 546

    This is a topic that comes up every once in a while. There are a lot of veteran Obsidian Portal users who have been around longer than me, but as someone who's been using this site for years I can attest that players' ability to edit wiki pages isn't a bad thing.

    In practice, it's actually really difficult to motivate players to add/edit pages. It's really a non-issue.


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  • JaymesBolton
    JaymesBolton
    Posts: 278

    Going to second TriviaMan on this one. If you have player actively editing and making wiki pages consider yourself blessed. 

    If you have a player who is being an a$$ and deleting or putting things in that don't belong then at that point you might want to question allowing the person in your campaign in the first place. 

  • Johnprime
    Johnprime
    Posts: 252

    I will have to add in my voice on editing the pages by the players, while running a super hero game my players would add in information for NPCs, even creating NPCs from scratch. So having them able to create a character on their own has actually helped with player buy in.

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  • cgregory
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    His question was about forum post editing not wiki editing. So that is a slightly different beast.

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  • Johnprime
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    Oh I get that. My players were surprised that they could edit anything on the site, not just the forum, so I wanted to let him know that it helped with player buy in. Granted, not everyone wants their players editing things on the OP and as was mentioned by JamesBolton, if I had a player deleting things and being a general pain, I'd have to do something about him, but I just wanted to let him know what I understood the thought process was about everyone editing OP.

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  • DiceWrangler
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    If the default is to allow players nearly full access to the campaign site at least support some sort of rollback in case we accidentally invite a saboteur into our game. Without the ability for GMs to add comments to or rate a player's user profile how would a GM know if a prospective player is a serial saboteur? Personally, if a random player intentionally harmed my campaign site I would leave Obsidian Portal altogether since there are no safeguards in-place to prevent it from happening again.

  • Kallak
    Kallak
    Posts: 1,090

    @DiceWrangler,

    One of the features of Ascendant membership is revision history. You can view previous versions of each page, compare, and if needed, restore a previous version.

    All the best,
    - Kallak
  • weasel0
    weasel0
    Posts: 435

    Such a bad player might not be allowed continued access?

  • Krothos
    Krothos
    Posts: 230 edited May 2018

    I also had the same concern, not so much as a player being malicious but more of a concern where a player navigating the site and saving accidental changes.

    As such, I asked a similar question and was provided with the following CSS code to help:

    /* remove player's ability to edit wiki pages */
    .campaign-member div.wiki-page-container .icon-edit {display: none;}
    .campaign-game-master div.wiki-page-container .icon-edit {display: inline;}

    Add this to your Advanced section of your campaign and it should remove the non-GM players the ability to edit your Wiki pages.

    Hope it helps. :)

     

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  • weasel0
    weasel0
    Posts: 435

    Well, that was certainly more helpful than my suggestion.

  • cgregory
    cgregory
    Posts: 780

    Yes, you can remove the ability for players to edit pretty much anything using the .campaign-member and .campaign-game-master classes. The basic premise to that is to remove access for everyone and then add access back for the GM.

    Some of the campaign permission tricks I've listed in the link below.

    https://unlockingtheportal.obsidianportal.com/wikis/campaign-permissions-tricks

     

     

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