Page assignments
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- Last edited 4 years ago by MLR
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About page assignments
Page assignments are a quick way of giving one or more users informal responsibility and ownership of a page. They are very similar to a watchlist. A user can add a page to their watchlist themselves, but assignments are made by other users.
Page assignments do not change the behavior of the page or grant special rights on a page. For example, the page does not get locked for editing when it is assigned to another user. It is rather a simple mechanism to have users "take a look" at a page. If the feature Read confirmation is activated for a namespace, assigned users have to confirm with a checkbox on the page that they have read the page.
Characteristics
- Notifications are sent to assigned users when their page assignment is changed. (This can be deactivated in the user preferences.)
- Transparency: Assigned users are listed in the QM tools panel of the page
- Assignment management: (
Special:ManagePageAssignments) - Quick access from the user profile menu
- Read confirmation: page shows a read confirmation checkbox for assigned users (optional)
Assigning a page
Overview of users and groups assigned to a page, as well as adding and removing users and groups, can be done via the Page assignments flyout. It is located in the right navigation, in tab "Quality management".
Single user or a group can be assigned to multiple pages.
Viewing assignments
Besides viewing all the assigned users and groups on a single page, as described above, wiki admins can also see a list of all pages that have users or groups assigned.
This is done in the Assignments manager located in the left navigation, in tab "Global actions" under the section "Management", or by navigating directly to Special:PageAssignments
Here, assignments can be edited and removed as well. Edit the assignment by clicking on the "wrench" icon and delete the assignment by clicking on the "x" button when the assignment is selected.
Viewing own assignments
Every user can view the pages they are assigned to by clicking on "Assignments" in their personal menu (by clicking on their image in the upper right corner).
Setting permissions for assigned users
Wiki admins can define a set of permissions that will be granted to assigned users for a page they are assigned to, even if these permissions were not granted to them by default.
This can be done in BlueSpiceConfigManager, by selecting config type "Extension" and selecting BlueSpicePageAssignments from the list.
See also
Reference page for this extension.