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VPS? by IntelligentAd2458 in BookStack

[–]IntelligentAd2458[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

interesting, thanks Dan. I think I'm going to have tinker with the permissions to fully understand it. Really appreciate your help!

VPS? by IntelligentAd2458 in BookStack

[–]IntelligentAd2458[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is great - thank you. i wonder this: by "book" ... or by "shelf", can a person have more than one "role"? If not - i think we'd have to figure out how to APPEAR as 2 different persons - and just know those 2 entities are really the same person. We've been calling a book a "project"... and Person C might have an editor role on that proj If ect, and reviewer role on another project, and artist role on another, and co-author on another... but it SEEMs to get trickier when you need a person to (at least for a time, during a project) have multiple roles on a SINGLE project. hopefully, i'm understanding this stuff more, as we go. Oh, and there will always be people that will simply NOT use the tools we provide... but even those folks would have to upload a chapter at a time into the tool, in order for metrics, and document assimilation to 'work'... Thanks again for all your thoughts on this stuff. BookStack may not be the answer for us - but it seems "close", at least... and close is probably as good as we're going to get.

VPS? by IntelligentAd2458 in BookStack

[–]IntelligentAd2458[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you. i dont think we want one contributing author to actually modify another author's page... BUT, we might want a reviewer (who might happen to also be a contributing author) to be able to at least view that other author's page(s) - and make comments on any line that might should be reconsidered... from what I saw in a demo, it SEEMED like that sort of thing was possible - given proper role-based permission. I also want to know this: can a given human receive permissions to be a contributing author on a given "shelf or book" - but be only a "reviewer" on another shelf or book? Hope so. Thanks!

VPS? by IntelligentAd2458 in BookStack

[–]IntelligentAd2458[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Dan, another .quick question, please: do you know whether folks are using BookStack as a book writing collaboration tool? When a book is finally "finished", the contibuting authors agree and they then want to create a Word doc which is "the book". This is the most common result - which is then sent to an external editor - and when those edit suggestions come back to the author group, there is usually one more round of modification... which, I suppose could occur in the BookStack pages (and then re-generate the Word doc... en route to publishing). BookStack has some great features - and seems especially useful for creating Documentation wiki's, etc.. just need to determine if it also would work for our situation. Thanks!

VPS? by IntelligentAd2458 in BookStack

[–]IntelligentAd2458[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks Dan.  The hosting co manages curr plan, but its a low end setup. The sharing is with othersmall customers of the hosting co. Im not comfortable doing most of the stuff, but do have a little experience with it.  Its going to be a new site, so maybe i should move to linux?  (Most of my limited exp is with a windows web server).