Portfolio -> Share
When you have created portfolio pages (and collections), you may wish to share them with others, e.g. to receive feedback. You can set the access permissions on the Edit access page. It is accessible via Portfolio -> Share or directly from the page editor when you edit a portfolio page.
The Share overview page shows you the following:
Share overview page
The Edit access page allows you to set the permissions for a single user or multiple users for if and when they should be able to view your portfolio pages or collections.
You can assign access to a single page or collection at a time or to multiple pages and / or collections at once.
Users and groups to whom you can give access to pages and / or collections
You have a number of choices for selecting who shall be able to see what:
Note
Your friends or individual users with whom you shared your pages / collections receive a notification. Group members also receive a notification that you shared a page with them if the group administrator allowed that. You do not receive a notification when a user shared his page with the public or all logged-in users.
See also
If you use the web services plugin, you can also share pages with “favourite users”. For more information, please refer to the specifications for this feature.
You can restrict full access to your profile page to the members of your institution if the site administrator allowed that in Site administration -> Configure site -> User settings -> Logged-in profile access.
If you allow only members of your own institution(s) to see your profile page, other users who have an account can only see basic information, e.g. your name, your institution membership and messaging information.
Restricted view of a profile
In addition to controlling who shall have access to your pages / collections, you can further restrict that access for a specific period of time.
Restrict access to your pages / collections further
You can choose a number of additional options which are applied to all pages and / or collections that are selected.
Advanced options for editing access to pages / collections
See also
Check the blocks which can be copied.
If you have not allowed copying in general, you can still choose to allow comments for a certain person or group of people who are in your access list. That way you can regulate very flexibly who shall be able to place comments on a page / collection and who cannot.
Allow comments on a user-by-user basis
Note
If you edit an institution page, you see an additional option when you allowed copying. With this option you can place a page directly into the portfolio of a new user. Existing users still have to copy the page themselves.
Besides giving users who have a login or the entire public access to your portfolio, you can also give users who do not have an account on Mahara access to your portfolio pages and / or collections without making your work publicly available and searchable by search engines. This can be interesting, e.g.
Add one or more secret URLs to a page or collection
You can create a secret URL the following way when you are on the share overview page and click on the Edit button :
Note
Logged-out users or those who do not have an account can only leave comments on public pages or pages which they can access via a secret URL if the site administrator turned on the Anonymous comments function under Site administration -> Configure site -> User settings.