I am looking at implementing this setup on my organization's website (the hub) and its regional sites (client sites). My issue is that when I promote a node in the client site(s) to the frontpage of that site, it also promotes to the hub's frontpage (which logically makes sense since the node is on both sites).

I need a way to stop this from happening, otherwise it kind of defeats the purpose of my client site.

Thanks

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nedjo
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Good point, and not an issue I'd considered.

Probably we need to store certain properties separately and reset them as appropriate to a given site, using hook_nodeapi(). That is, roughly:

* create table with three fields: prefix, nid, promoted
* in hook_nodeapi() op validate, detect change in promote value and, if present, set $node->local_promote to the promoted value and reset promoted to original value.
* in hook_nodeapi() op 'load', reset 'promoted' value with local value

I hope to be working more intensively on the module in two or three months when I will be completing a second round of development for the client who contracted it. I'm unlikely to be able to do much further development before then.