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Allow authors to password protect an entire book #430

Open hofera opened 2 years ago

hofera commented 2 years ago

Feature Description

As a book author, I want to password protect the contents of my entire book so that it's visible only to people who have the password. Readers should be able to enter the password once and access all content in the book without needing to create an account. Currently I can password protect content in the book, but it has to be done at the front/back matter or chapter leve, which is tedious and time consuming.

Network managers have indicated:

The page by page PW option is too burdensome for these books - we'd rather not PW protect them than have to go through every page to turn on the PW feature."

This feature would be useful for publishing instructor materials. Being able to provide a common password rather than creating new accounts for each reader would be useful.

SteelWagstaff commented 2 years ago

Hi @hofera thanks for submitting this idea. Can you tell us more about the desired use case for global password protection for a book? Is the idea that all content in a book would have the same password, and it could simply be edited or turned on/off at the book level rather than the level of individual front/back matter? Who would like to use this feature, and do they have any other needs/requirements we should consider when planning or developing this feature?

hofera commented 2 years ago

Hi Steel,

We have faculty running pilots with textbooks that are in Pressbooks but still in draft form. We hope that they are not shared widely right now because there are many changes that we plan to make before official launch. Adding a book-level PW is a way of making sure that students can access but the books aren't too "spread-y."

The page by page PW option is too burdensome for these books - we'd rather not PW protect them than have to go through every page to turn on the PW feature.

The option Thomas suggested of providing all students with PB accounts seems like too high a bar to access the textbook for students.

"Is the idea that all content in a book would have the same password, and it could simply be edited or turned on/off at the book level?" ---> YES!

Thanks! Amy

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allisonpbrown commented 1 year ago

I would add that this feature would be useful for publishing instructor materials. We verify faculty that want to use instructor materials and being able to provide a common password rather than creating new accounts for each reader would be useful.