By jdcoffman on

How can I assign multiple usernames to be able to post to one blog... for instance I'm building a site for a TV station and I need all of my weather people to be able to post to the "Weather blog" and the reporters to be able to blog onto the "News Blog"

I of course will let each person have their own blog as well, but those group collaborative blogs are important as well.

I'm hoping there's a fairly easy way to handle this...

Thanks for your ideas!

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benedett commented

Each of these blogs could be an "organic group." The only trouble would be that each of these blogs would be labelled an "Organic Group" or whatever on the site, but I think using the Content Construction Kit (CCK) you can rename the OG content type to something nicer, like "Blog" or "Group Blog."

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jdcoffman commented

I thought of that, but I was trying to avoid installing OG in the site... I'm afraid it could get too cumbersome too fast.

I'm wondering if maybe I could create a new content type, called "blogs" and assign a specific user-group to be able to creat that type, and then disable the core blog module? I mean it's kinda a hacked up way to do it but I think it might work.

any thoughts or other ideas?

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jdcoffman commented

I thought of that, but I was trying to avoid installing OG in the site... I'm afraid it could get too cumbersome too fast.

I'm wondering if maybe I could create a new content type, called "blogs" and assign a specific user-group to be able to creat that type, and then disable the core blog module? I mean it's kinda a hacked up way to do it but I think it might work.

any thoughts or other ideas?

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benedett commented

OG does exactly what you're looking for though. In my experience it is not any trouble, one of the nicer modules in fact. Let us know what you end up doing, and good luck.

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Rob_Feature commented

I agree with you...I think OG would be overkill for this application. I'd suggest one of two things:

1. Have everyone write in their own blog, and assign a taxonomy...then if you just use taxonomies, you can go to that taxonomies page to see all the entries.

2. I think your idea of a blog content type is good too. Remember, the "blog" content type that comes preinstalled is not all that special....I don't see creating your new content type as a 'hack' way to do it. I think it's perfect. Then, you could use Views to lay out your blog page. I like it...

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sepeck commented

Why not give each user their own blog.
Create a category using taxonomy module for weather and news.
Make blog posts required to choose a category.
Then make the link to the news or the weather categories?

You could do the same with story, page or other new content type as well.

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