Hello, I'm a first time user of Drupal and I've been using Typolight for my CMS for a bit before getting annoyed with adding content features.
One of the things I really liked about Typolight is the ability to create a pagemount and filemount for users. So what this does is that it allowed me to create Users with basically administrator priviledges in creating and modifying pages, except they are restricted to one section of the site. For example, I had a site with 7 parts of the body that details current technologies in modeling for that part. Each part had an administrator and they could add pages and create users/editors/contributors.
So I guess what I want to do is:
1. Have sections/categories administrator so that they have full page creation/editing permission in that category but no where else on the site
2. Be able to add users to their Group as editors/contributors that can write articles for them.
3. Have them be able to upload files to their own directories, but not be able to access outside of that.
That's required for this site, but some "nice" features would be like private forums and private calendars.
I am trying to use OG, but it seems I can't restrict the creation of groups, and I basically want just 7 groups. Also I'd like to assign an administrator for each category, and not let people "create" groups. So my question is, is this even possible in Drupal without writing my own code?
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Just a quick question... How
Just a quick question... How does OG compare with that same feature found in Typolight?
Eric Desgranges
http://tela-web.com
OG user roles will solve your trouble
just started webmastering the site of my new job, which is typolight, coming from drupal. feels like a downgrade, but I don't want to be unfair and I'll admit that I may not yet have seen the full functionalities of typolight. (to be entirely honest, I found this thread when searching for a typolight -> Drupal converter) anyway, I have the feeling that OG is easier to manage.
to answer the questions about filemount and pagemount: Drupal does not work with the tree-like structure of typolight, you just assign nodes to one or more usergroups (or actually, you grant access to usergroups for particular nodes). therefore, the usergroup itself functions as an entry-point and not a particular page and its sub-pages. it may take a little time to get used to, but afterwards, it allows you to play around easily. (in the end, it comes down to getting used to the logic of nodes as compared to pages.)
if you want to allow users administrator rights, you have to enable OG and add the OG user roles module (see: http://drupal.org/project/og_user_roles) and perhaps define a new role with particular permissions. so yes, what you require is possible (you may think of allowing your users the possibility to invite other users etc etc.)
and of course, OG allows for forums, books, etc etc for particular groups.
one last thing is puzzling me: how do you mean "I can't restrict the creation of groups?" I guess this is something you can define in your user permissions, or in the permissions linked to OG-module. I would restrict that permission to you, the site manager. and if needed, there is a module to create sub-groups.
kindly yours,
Joris