Collaboration and Participation Modes

Sources

Docs: Personal, Primary, Publishing, Pinging, and Peeping Web App: Open Collaboration in Ponder. Active Participation Mode sits beside Problem above the chat prompt when publishing is enabled.

Story

A Parable has a Collaboration Mode: Personal or Published Versions. This setting decides where edits are saved and whether publishing and participation are enabled. Your responsibility still determines which actions you may perform. Active Participation Mode describes how you are working right now: Publishing, Pinging, or Peeping. It can reduce the controls on screen without changing your responsibility or granting access.

Structure

Choose Collaboration Mode

Collaboration Mode	Editing	Collaboration tab
Personal	Changes save directly to the main ref.	The Publish & Ping invitation, with Stay Personal and Enable Publishing & Pinging.
Published Versions	Changes use a separate set that can be reviewed and published as a Version.	Opens on Participants, with Pushes and Publishing alongside it.

New composed Parables start Personal. The dropdown beside Problem stays visible, shows Personal, and offers Publishing when you can change Collaboration Mode. The Report actions button and the Push, Version, State, and Changes controls remain hidden. The Primary can choose Publishing in the dropdown or Enable Publishing & Pinging in the Collaboration tab to start versioning. This creates their first set of Changes; it does not publish a Version or send a Ping. In Pushes, choose All Workspaces or Selected Workspaces to configure where future publishes go. Choosing these destinations does not deploy anything now. The Publishing gear menu offers Disable Publishing. It returns the origin to Personal, keeps the main content, and removes the other participants. Open Changes are pocketed so their work is retained. Saved Versions and existing Workspace copies remain available; disabling does not withdraw earlier publishes. A Workspace or Role that holds Primary must first assign a Person as Primary before returning to Personal. The Collaboration icon follows this saved policy: a lock for Personal and people for Published Versions. The authoring view opens or reuses My Changes and addresses its actual draft ref. Historical Versions remain explicit readings, and the selector never offers a No Changes entry.

Choose Active Participation Mode

Mode	What it supports
Publishing	Authoring, review, report actions, and publication actions your responsibility permits.
Pinging	Reading, clarification, Problems, Proofs, and Pings without editing Pieces.
Peeping	Reading Pages and selecting a Version, Changes, or Report reading.

Personal is not a participation choice. In Personal mode the author keeps the editing controls their responsibility permits and does not need to choose Publishing. Report actions are hidden in Personal mode. With Published Versions enabled, they stay discoverable in every participation mode; Peeping and Pinging explain restrictions on actions. Every participation choice remains visible in its dropdown. An unavailable choice explains which responsibility it needs. Primary and Publishing actors can choose all three; Pinging actors can choose Pinging or Peeping; Peeping actors can choose Peeping.

Security

Participation mode only narrows the current view. The server independently checks Workspace access, Parable responsibility, and the requested action. A wider mode cannot grant a permission or reveal a protected Parable.

Stability

The participation choice is encoded in the address. Missing or invalid choices open in Peeping, and a choice above the recipient’s responsibility is clamped to one they can use. Personal policy takes precedence over this temporary view choice. Disabling publishing retains work rather than merging someone else’s pending Changes into main. Re-enable publishing to reach pocketed work through the normal history controls.

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​Structure

​Choose Collaboration Mode

​Choose Active Participation Mode

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​Stability