Rights
Here you get total control over who gets to read, contribute to, and edit your QDL posts.
- Creators
- Creators can edit everything about the post, including the properties (such as the rights).
- Only the creator(s) can delete and purge the post.
- Editors
- Editors can edit the main body of the post, including the cutting and pasting of sub-posts, but they cannot alter the properties, nor can they delete or purge the post.
- If you check the drafts only box, when editors go to edit the post, they will only be able to edit a draft of the post. Those with creator rights will then be able to publish the draft.
- Adders
- Adders can tack sub-posts onto the end of the post, but they cannot edit the main body of the post.
- Readers
- Readers can only see the information — they cannot edit the main body of the post, or add new sub-posts at the end.
Higher rights imply lower rights. In other words, creatorship implies editorship, which implies addership, which implies readership. So if a person is specified as an adder, it is not necessary to also specify the person as a reader.To change these rights, click the appropriate button. This opens a sub-window, showing the Groups folder on the left side, and with a box on the right side into which you can drag groups and/or individuals to give them rights. Click the Done button to apply these rights back to the post being edited.If you assign rights to a group, but you want to deny rights to an individual in that group, drag the individual into the rights box, and then prefix the name with a minus sign. Denied rights can appear anywhere in the sequence, and it doesn't matter which other groups include the individual — once denied, that individual will not have rights.It is possible to give away creatorship of a post, by removing yourself from the list of creators, and adding someone else. But even though you're no longer listed as a creator, you will still have creator rights, until the new creator edits the properties, and removes you as a creator. So you can "pass off" creatorship, but the transaction is not complete until creatorship is "received" by the new creator, so to say.People using one of the Classic Layouts also get a checkbox at the bottom called apply to all expanded sub-posts. If the process encounters a sub-post that has more than one parent, it doesn't change anything there (or lower in the hierarchy), and it generates a PM listing all of the posts in the hierarchy that it could not change.When creating a new post, rights are inherited from the parent post.
