Users have their own section of a site
sparkguitar05 - July 1, 2008 - 23:11
I want to set up a site and have certain users be able to control their own "section" of the site. There will be 2-3 users per section, and these users and create and edit nodes only within their own section. I want all of these "sections" to be displayed in a menu. What would be the best way to go about doing this?
keeping in mind that sections are illusory...
Use content types, roles and pathauto.
For each "section", create content types unique to that section. e.g., a_story, b_story, etc. (yeah, you'll end up with lots of virtually identical content types).
Create roles for each section--a_editor, b_editor, etc.--and give each role permission to create/edit the content types for its section, then assign users to their various section roles.
To break your site up into "sections", use pathauto to assign your content types to appropriate section paths.
You can then create menus and menu items for the different sections and views to show the various types of content.
That's how I'm handling the sections thing, anyway.
salud...
How about taxonomy?
Thanks, Bill. There were actually two ways I was thinking of possibly doing this. You described the first way exactly how it was in my head.
Is there a way to create different taxonomy terms for the sections, and make it so each role can assign nodes to only one or two taxonomy terms? I think this would be much easier and quicker than creating a content type for every section.
might work that way
Taxonomy is a lot easier than having different content types, but I'm not sure about taxonomy-based permissions (never tried it). My motivation for different content types was that I've got different sections on my site, and all users (even anonymous) are allowed to post to all off them. Since even my co-conspirators on the site were confused by the taxonomy select list in the creation form, I made different types for each section so I could just put a link in each section to a form that only creates content for that section.
Organic Groups
Someone in the IRC channel told me to consider Organic Groups. Based on the description, it seems like it would possibly work for my purposes. I'll try it out and post my feedback in this forum.
Domain access
Also try domain access module http://drupal.org/project/domain .With it you can create a subdomain (own "section") and allow certain users to add content to that subdomain and another subdomain for another set of users and so on.also you can select which content to display in the main site from the user contributions and which content to share among subdomains.
Its not very tough to configure.You will have to ask your host to setup wildcard DNS.Rest is easy.
"Give me a place to stand and I shall move the Earth" -Archimedes
Subdomain
Subdomain module also does some of that, without all the overhead. http://drupal.org/project/subdomain
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Subdomain
Subdomain looks like something that might work. Thanks!