# Ikiwiki user roles

Working with this website isseparated into some distinct roles.

Besides the technician setting up the system, there is the content **author**,
the web graphics and interface **designer** and the normal **reader** of the site.

The author can write content before the shaping and visual enhancing is ready. And
the site can be live readable while evolving both content and style.

The system builds two websites in parallel - one presented for normal reading, and
another one with edit links, only offered to designer and author (secured by
individual passwords).

[[graph height=8 width=8 src="""
{
//	rankdir=LR
//	rotate=90
	center=1

	{rank=same; user author designer}
//	{rank=same; search_query txt tmpl media}
	subgraph cluster_clitools {
		label="Commandline editing"
		style=dashed
		txt
		tmpl
		media
	}
	subgraph cluster_webtools {
		label="Web editing"
		style=dashed
		txt
		search_query
	}
//	{rank=same; txt_stored media_stored tmpl_stored}
	subgraph cluster_storage {
		label="Server storage"
		style=dashed
		search_db
		txt_stored
		tmpl_stored
		media_stored
	}
	{rank=same; webpages webpages_admin webpages_searchresult}

	/* roles */
	user [shape=house, label="Reader"]
	author [shape=house, label="Text author"]
	designer [shape=house, label="Web designer"]

	/* input data types */
	search_query [shape=plaintext, label="Search query"]
	txt [shape=plaintext, label="Markdown text"]
	media [shape=plaintext, label="Graphics files"]
	tmpl [shape=plaintext, label="Html templates"]

	search_db [shape=egg, label="Search index"]

	/* stored data types */
	txt_stored [shape=plaintext, label="Version-controlled Markdown text"]
	media_stored [shape=plaintext, label="Graphics files"]
	tmpl_stored [shape=plaintext, label="Version-controlled html templates"]

	webpages [label="Static website"]
	webpages_admin [label="(Admin-)editable website"]
	webpages_searchresult [label="Search results", style=dotted]

	user -> search_query -> search_db -> webpages_searchresult

	author -> txt -> txt_stored -> webpages
	txt_stored -> webpages_admin

	designer -> txt

	designer -> tmpl -> tmpl_stored -> webpages
	tmpl_stored -> webpages_admin

	designer -> media -> media_stored -> webpages
	media_stored -> webpages_admin
}
"""]]

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See also the graphs on Ikiwiki [[design|ikidesign]] and on the [[system|ikidesign]].