Hi!
We're having a small group of developers that would now like to have a (public) blog. They are obviously busy developing, and thus not able to write blog entries daily. This is why I see no reason to maintain an own blog for every developer; we'd only end up having multiple, separate blogs that get updated too rarely, to keep up readers interest.
I have though about creating a separate user name for blogging, this way any of them could log in with that specific user name & password, and make an entry in the shared blog. That, however, is not a very good choice, since all the entries seem to be coming from the same writer.
The point would be to have a blog, who more than one persons with their own user name and password could enter, and showing their personal user names in their entries.

Is there a way to do this with Drupal core Blog and Advanced Blog modules?
Looking forward to hearing from You,

MerjaS
http://www.gurux.org
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Drupal 6.20
MySQL database 5.0.77
PHP 5.2.8
Web server Microsoft-IIS/7.0

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svendecabooter
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Hi,

If you don't want a personal blog per Drupal account, i would step away from the Blog modules, and just create this with CCK / Views.

You can create a new contenttype called "Blog", enable comments on it, put it in categories with taxonomy, and there you have your basic blog.
Just give your writers permission to create content of type "Blog" and they can start..

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MerjaS commented

Hello again, and thank You for the soonest reply!

quote: " step away from the Blog modules, and just create this with CCK / Views"

This seems like a good idea, I'll see to this, thank You.
I'll keep you posted, how it goes.

Thanks and regards,
MerjaS

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MerjaS commented

Hello again, svendecabooter, and others interested,

I have had some problems with Views from the very beginning. Maybe I just do not know how to use it properly, but I don't seem to get anything done with it, though I have read the manual, and followed the Getting Started (at admin/build/views) step by step. So,
I was a little afraid, when reading the referring to Views in your comment (creating one blog for several users with CCK / Views), but thankfully you had added that TO-DO list in your comment.

Your suggestion gave me a good guideline, and I was able to build up a shared blog for all developers of our company. Thank You very much for taking me to "think outside the box"!

MerjaS

http://www.gurux.org
Drupal 6.20
MySQL 5.0.77
PHP 5.2.8
Web server Microsoft-IIS/7.0

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Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)
Issue tags: -multiple users

I am closing this issue, as it has been created for a release that is now not supported.