Item5774: WebPreferences Settings are not overridden!

if a %VALUE% is defined in a parent Web a SubWeb will not be able to override this setting but documentation says this:

Example Preference Inheritance for Sandbox/TestWeb/SubWeb.SubWebTopic topic:

1. TWiki.TWikiPreferences site-wide preferences
2. Sandbox.WebPreferences inherits from and overrides settings in TWiki.TWikiPreferences
3. Sandbox/TestWeb.WebPreferences inherits from and overrides settings in Sandbox.WebPreferences
4. Sandbox/TestWeb/SubWeb.WebPreferences inherits from and overrides settings in Sandbox/TestWeb.WebPreferences
5. Sandbox/TestWeb/SubWeb.SubWebTopic inherits from and overrides settings in Sandbox/TestWeb/SubWeb.WebPreferences

So the Twiki Authorisation does not work too.

-- TWiki:Main/RicardoDonner - 14 Jul 2008

I have tested this and it does work.

I can define a variable in WebPreferences of a root web and see the value in a subweb.

And I can overwrite the same variable in the WebPreferences of the subweb.

When it comes to access rights then it is because you have missed an important point in the documentation.

Look at the root web at the bottom. Here you find

Set FINALPREFERENCES = NOSEARCHALL, ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT, WIKIWEBMASTER, WEBCOPYRIGHT, WEBTOPICLIST, DENYWEBVIEW, ALLOWWEBVIEW, DENYWEBCHANGE, ALLOWWEBCHANGE, DENYWEBRENAME, ALLOWWEBRENAME

This is important. It is a FEATURE that a preference which is set final cannot be overwritten lower down the stream of access rights.

So if you want to be able to override access rights in a subweb you need to remove the corresponding preference from the FINALPREFERENCES in the parent web.

This is documented.

-- KennethLavrsen - 14 Jul 2008

ok

-- TWiki:Main.RicardoDonner - 14 Jul 2008