[support] Re: individual home pages for users?

[puregin]

On 8-Feb-2006, at 8:13 AM, Mike Hartman wrote:

>> How do I configure Drupal so that each user who logs is sent to a  
>> home
>> page specific to them, or at least specific to a role that he/she
>> belongs to?
>
> I was looking to do the same thing. I need to separate what different
> users see when they log in. They shouldn't even be aware of other  
> groups
> and or content that they don't have access to. I haven't tried it yet
> but here is what I'm going to try. It's maybe not the same thing  
> you are
> trying to accomplish but might help somehow.
>
> Using themes I will create a separate theme for each group of users  
> and
> set them as the default theme for the corresponding groups.
>
> In each theme there will be a different set of primary and secondary
> links but otherwise they will be the same. For example, Group 1's
> primary links might be "Group 1- project A", "group 1 - project b",  
> etc.
> and Group 2's primary links would be "group 2- project A" etc.
>
> Set the default front page to something generic like "welcome to ..."
>
> Using the taxonomy_access module and user roles I'll control what
> content the different roles can view, update, etc.

     Sounds complicated.   Are you sure the organic groups module
doesn't do what you need?