multisite, common users, different content writers

Posted by Rapsey on May 21, 2007 at 7:37pm

Is it possible to setup drupal in a way that would allow multiple sites to share users, but each have their own people who produce content? The content writers have to only be limited to their own site.

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A basic solution for a few sites (not lots)

Posted by matt_harrold on May 22, 2007 at 3:54am

I got this working yesterday. My setup doesn't share content, only users.

I followed the instructions for installing a multisite with common users.

Then I made a new user role for each site (southern_writer,southern_editor,northern_writer,northern_editor...)

I then grant access based on this new site role, but it's a rather simplified solution, it doesn't scale well.

45 sites * 7 different roles = 315 roles!

It does work though, and content writers can easily be granted access to arbitrary sites.

If you only have limited roles/users and not many sites, then this solution works fine.

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have you tried these?

Posted by CheDuraes on October 29, 2008 at 8:33pm

Friend,

Try these two tips:
one database, all tables shared - http://drupal.org/node/131036 : may help you with some basic ideas.
for dummies - and http://drupal.org/node/107347: explain how to work with subdomains and others.

Good luck from Brasil.

Thanks

Posted by matt_harrold on October 30, 2008 at 10:13am

I've since moved to Drupal 6 and have found a much better way than I previously described.

Modules used:

domain
domain_blocks
domain_user_default
keys_api (for multisite GMap integration).
singlesignon
views

The excellent bunch of developers who made this possible deserve cold beers and warm thanks.

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