By dvrvm on

Hello,
I am working on a drupal project where I need
* 5 subsites, e.g. with multisite installation but other possibilities might work
* distinct themes per subsite
* distinct blogs and news per subsite
* some common content
* a common event calendar
* distinct image galleries
* a common shop (ecommerce)
* a common newsletter.

At the moment, I'm looking at using a partly shared multisite installation.
Basically, the common plain content is not much in terms of size.
But since I need common event calendar and newsletter, I need shared nodes, right?
But, this implies shared taxonomy => no distinct image galleries? OK, I could link to a subgallery directly, but still not very clean.
Other ideas for the given aim? Abusing OrganicGroups? All approaches based on taxonomy_theme et al. fail at the point where I want to browse e.g. image galleries (which are taxonomy terms themselves, and I (i.e. my users) don't want to (i.e. shouldn't have to) add them manually to the taxonomy_theme list...)

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m4rt1n’s picture

m4rt1n commented

hi,
did you find a solution for your problems?

krynsky’s picture

krynsky commented

I have a main site, and need to create a few sub-sites, each with their own theme, but I want to share some of the content types. Basically these new sub-sites (utilizing views) would display filtered content that's lower in the taxonomy heirarchy yet the main site would display all content created.

Each sub-site would also have other unique navigation and nodes available solely on each of their respective sites.

Make sense?

Since I don't believe Multi-site supports shared content, and orgranic groups doesn't sound like the right solution, I was wondering what might be?

Thanks for your help.

Mark

krynsky’s picture

krynsky commented

Came across this which might work for us...

http://groups.drupal.org/node/3470