By beyonder on

Hi,

I have an issue I need help solving, I was hoping someone can shed some light on my problem. Or direct me in the right direction.

This is general idea i have:
- One "parent" account, can have multiple "children" accounts.
- Each child account can join any organic group.
* The user of the system, must be able to log into Drupal using ONLY the "parent" account; and both the parent and children have there own user profiles.

I would like to know if there is a simple solution to this parent/child problem, so that organic groups would continue to work seamlessly (with no or little code change). Or if anyone has encountered this type of problem themselves.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

It is possible to associate a user account with an organic group. And another account join that group, but those are also drupal user accounts so in general they can log in also. But you state only the "parent" account can login so it is unclear what role/purpose these child account have.

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beyonder commented

Thanks for the reply nevets,

Well... the child acocunt would act like a normal user account in Drupal in the basic function. This child account can sign up for an organic group, post messages, etc (similar to a normal user account). The big difference is, the user would not login using the child account, they would login with the parent acocunt. And with the parent account they can create new child accounts, and switch between child accounts.

For example,

Lets say I own a pet dog named "fluffy", and a pet cat named "tigger". In this type of relationship I would be the "parent" and fluffy and tigger are the children. I would assume fluffy's identity to sign up for a group relating to dogs, to post messages, etc. I can also assume tigger's identity to sign up for a group relating to cats. But I would only login with my "parent" account.

Does that make any sense??? B/c it barely does to me.

Thanks.

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Not something you can do out of the box with Drupal. It also sounds complicated from a user perspective, why would they need/want multiple accounts with the parent/child relation? In your example 'fluffy' and 'tigger' are not really children, then represent areas of interest and I see no reason for the person not to directly subscribe to a given interest group.

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leoricg commented

I'm trying to do exactly the samed thing (on Drupal 7.x).
This is intended to be used on site about role-playing game: a Parent User could create children users to represent theyre "ingame" characters (with limited roles).

For example,

Lets say I play a character named "fluffy", and another named "tigger" :-). In this type of relationship I would be the "parent" and fluffy and tigger are the children. I would assume fluffy's identity to post messages when "playing" him, etc. I can also assume tigger's identity when playing him.
But I would only login with my "parent" account.

I did some research, I think it could be done with the Masquerade module, but I don't know where to start. Any ideas?

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nevets commented

Closest thing is probably the sub-user module.