DocDB Version 8.0 Released

DocDB version 8.0 is now available. There are two major additions to this version: The ability to turn of view permissions for a group and the ability to have sub-sub-....-topics to whatever level you like.

There is now a CanView option that you can set for a group to disable their
access even if they are marked as a group that can view a particular
document. Groups without CanView set can still access DocDB, it will just
show publicly accessible documents. Groups that cannot View are prohibited
from creating or modifying documents too. This seems logical, but if there is
a good reason to change it, we can. This feature was thought to be useful
for disabling reviewer accounts between reviews.
The user can still use DocDB, but can only see publicly accessible documents.

Topics can now have sub-topics, sub-sub-topics, etc. Users can also select top
level topics. Make sure the long description of a sub-topic is fully
descriptive as often the long description is shown without the context of its
parent topic. The maintainer can set the variable
$Preferences{Topics}{MinLevel}{Document} so that users cannot select top-level
(or 2nd level) topics for documents. The default value is 1, other values can
be set in ProjectGlobals.pm.

The default is now set to separate the view and modify security list for a
document. If you want the old behavior, put $EnhancedSecurity = $FALSE; in ProjectGlobals. This is backwards compatible with the old setting.

For more information and for migration instructions see doc/CHANGES and doc/MigrationGuide in the CVS repository. I will also post the migration instructios on the SourceForge site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/docdb-v/ The migration this time is easy compared to the last two.

Enjoy and let me know of any problems,

Eric